Radu Jude: the Death of the Author
Radu Jude: the Death of the Author

Summary/Abstract: The paper offers an overview on the cinematographic work of Radu Jude. An established director with fourteen films in his portfolio, Jude explores a variety of genres such as classical melodrama (Alexandra, 2006), comedy (The Happiest Girl in the World, 2009), parodical intertextual essay (A Film for Friends, 2011), historical western (Aferim!, 2015), documentary (The Dead Nation, 2017). The paper explores the idea that, despite the diversity of cinematic approaches, Jude maintains a personal and coherent view and discourse on the fictional world he depicts. This worldview can be metaphorically rendered as the “death of the author”. Radu Jude’s movies perform or rather take as a working principle the decay of the concept of author as a unifying stylistic feature. But, at the same time, this concept is a critical post factum construct that modifies and corrupts the object it is supposed to describe and explain.

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