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Arheologia conceptului de cultură. Tranziția înspre epistema modernă

Autor: Maura-Geraldina GIURA
Email: maura.giura@ulbsibiu.ro

The Archeology of the Concept of Culture. The Transition of the Modern Episteme

This study’s goal is the analysis of the transition epoch on a European scale (16th to 18th century). This moment represents a fundamental step took by the entire European population from North to South and from East to West. A vast collection of events, actions, epistemological orientations and cultural movements with significant impact on the history and existence of national, continental and global communities have been identified and analyzed. This research signals out the theoretical perspectives defining the concepts of culture and civilization, as given by ethnologists, sociologists, culture critics and philosophers.

Keywords: culture, history of culture, civilization, transition to modernity, European humanism

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Istorie și/sau aniversare. Bozgan, Ovidiu și Bogdan Murgescu (coord.), Universitatea din București 1864 – 2014, Editura Universității din București, 2014

Autor: Zoltán ROSTÁS
Email: zoltan.z.rostas@gmail.com

History and / or Anniversary. Bozgan, Ovidiu și Bogdan Murgescu (coord.), Universitatea din București 1864 – 2014, Editura Universității din București, 2014 [Review / Book Presentation]

The present article aims to draw attention to the importance of the historiography of universities. The imposing volume, University of Bucharest 1864-2014, appeared at the celebration of 150 years since the founding of these institutions. The author analyzes the chances of a scientific endeavor for an anniversary. Focusing on the inter-war and post-war period, it also shows progress towards previous volumes, but also shortcomings that persisted in this volume. In this sense, he welcomes the adequate treatment of the role of Professor Dimitrie Gusti in the development of the university, as well as the misunderstanding of some of his actions. He also noted the more balanced, more structured character of the chapters that covered the period from 1938 to 1989.

Keywords: University of Bucharest, teachers, students, Dimitrie Gusti, dictatorships, communist regime

Butoi, Ionuț, Mircea Vulcănescu. O microistorie a interbelicului românesc / Mircea Vulcănescu. A Micro-History of the Romanian Inter-War Era, București, Eikon, 2015.
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Bozgan, Ovidiu și Bogdan Murgescu (coord.), Universitatea din București (1844-2014) / University of Bucharest (1864-2014), București, Editura Universității din București, 2014.
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“East Central Europe” Reconceptualizarea socialului: istoria socială în Europa Central – Răsăriteană Vol 34-35, 2007-2008, 1-2

Autor: Dana COSTIN
Email: dana.costin1@yahoo.com

“East Central Europe” Reconceptualizing the Social: Writing Social History in the East Central Europe
Vol 34-35, 2007- 008, 1-2 [Review / Book Presentation]

This paper aims to bring into the public’s attention a book that was published over a decade ago, “Reconceptualizing the Social: Writing Social History in East Central Europe”. While it has received some international attention, the book has had little echo in the Romanian space, due to the fact social history is still in its infancy, thus, the debates about theories, paradigms and research methodologies in the field of social history have not been in the foreground of scientific debate in the post-communist era. Given these considerations, we find it most appropriate to review this collection of studies since in the last decade, more and more Romanian scholars have taken interest in the interdisciplinary historical research. We hope that bringing into the spotlight books such as Iordachi’s collection might further spark the interest for theoretical and methodological debates regarding the Romanian research in the field of social history.

Keywords: Social history, socio-cultural history, micro-history, macro-history, interdisciplinary research, Central-Eastern Europe.

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Buddhist Cantos from Bucharest I. Ion Pillat’s Visări budiste (1912) as “readings from Burnouf” [Asia in Europe II]

Autor: Eugen CIURTIN
Email: ciurtin.eug@mahidol.ac.th

Buddhist Cantos from Bucharest I. Ion Pillat’s Visări budiste (1912) as “readings from Burnouf” [Asia in Europe II]

This contribution in three parts analyses for the first time Ion Pillat’s Buddhist poetry of his debut volume (Visări budiste [Buddhist Reveries] from Visări păgâne [Pagan Reveries], Bucharest: «Minerva» – Institut de Arte Grafice și Editură, 1912) compared against plausible European and Asian religious and literary sources, contexts, and significance, in order to palliate the callous non-sense of some literary critics and the cultural prejudice inflicted by some scholars of religion. The five poems – A Buddhist Prayer (a title subsequently changed to A Prayer to the Buddha), Samsara [saṃsāra], Towards Nirvana, Karman and A Hymn of Worship – are illustrative of the wider topics and literary moves of an ‘Asian Renaissance’, and highlight the Buddhist legacy of Eugène Burnouf (1801-1852), a professor of the Collège de France who would become the founding father of modern Buddhist Studies worldwide and whose Magna Carta of Buddhism Studies would also have a Romanian echo, from Odobescu (who moreover frequented his classes) to Eminescu (who authored more and better Buddhist cantos) or Georgian (the first to critically edit Sanskrit texts) to young Pillat, a schoolboy, then student in Paris since 1905, to become the first translator into Romanian of another pupil of Sanskrit India in Paris and Harvard in the 1910-1914, T. S. Eliot.

Keywords: Ion Pillat | Asia in Europe | Buddhist writings in Pāli and Sanskrit | European literature | karman | saṃsāra | Romanian literature | T. S. Eliot.

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Contemporan cu fluturii, cu Dumnezeu și cu Marcus Aurelius

Autor: Cosmin CIOTLOȘ
Email: cosminciotlos@gmail.com

A Contemporary Of Butterflies, God And Marcus Aurelius

Although Romulus Bucur proves to be an influential figure in the most recent Romanian poetry trends, he has been drawing a peculiar type of critique throughout his thirty-five years of career. Some of the important literary historians (Manolescu, Zaciu, Negrici) have simply forgotten him in their syntheses, some (Simion, Martin, Cistelecan) have only settled for dealing with his work by means of singular interventions, in a categorical and descriptive manner, without following through the author’s overall path. This unfair situation would have probably continued if Bucur wouldn’t have published, in 2015, two books that trigger the effect of a geniune electric shock: The Art of War, an anthology with all the coordinates for it to be regarded as masterpiece, and automonography Opus Caementicium, where he explains (following the line that began with Poe, further used by Eliot and Pound) his reference system and poetic preferences. With suggestions from the latter book as a startpoint, the current essay offers a plausible and functional model of understanding the poetry of Romulus Bucur as a continuum novel, where, almost like in David Mitchell’s book, Cloud Atlas, the hero (soaked in musical and literary culture) stays true to himself, while also changing his age, epoque, temper and even his state of matter.

Keywords: the history of Romanian poetry, 80s generation, Romulus Bucur, cultural quote, intertext, projective verse, Mircea Cărtărescu, Alexandru Mușina

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Romanele maximaliste: O introducere în context românesc

Autor: Alex VĂSIEȘ
Email: alex_vasies@yahoo.com

Maximalist Novels: An Introduction in a Romanian Context

The second half of the twentieth century has offered a number of great novels that came to be described as maximalist, due to their objectives and realization. As a result, more and more critical attention has been focused on the ways in which these works circulate and influence the mediums to which they are translated. The present paper synthesizes the concept of maximalist novel and tries to analyse the elements that constitute its theoretical specificity. Moreover, the article explores the existence or the absence of some of the canonical text that represent this genre in Romanian, trying to give an account of the relation between the Romanian literary space and the maximalist paradigm.

Keywords: maximalist novel, Stefano Ercolino, encyclopedic narrative, Thomas Pynchon, translation.

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Au-delà des mots – (dé)construction identitaire et architecture du silence dans Le Ghetto intérieur de Santiago H. Amigorena

Autor: Dumitra BARON
Email: dumitra.baron@ulbsibiu.ro

Beyond Words- Identity (de)construction and architecture of silence in Le Ghetto intérieur by Santiago H. Amigorena –

We propose to study the way in which silence, as a “part of language”, takes shape into the verbal matter of the Argentine writer of French expression Santiago H. Amigorena’s novel Le Ghetto intérieur (2019) and to discover the main textual mechanisms of exploration and construction, including the classification, description and explanation of the functions of silence in the novel, in close connection with the mechanisms of the main character’s (de)construction of identity. We will also take into consideration the polyphonic character of the novel that resides not only in references to other literary works but also to media discourse. A several aspects as the making of reality, the true rendering of History, the necessity of remembering or the shared guilt are being discussed.

Keywords: Santiago H. Amigorena, silence, identity, memory, guilt.

Santiago H. Amigorena, Le Ghetto intérieur [The Inner Ghetto], Paris, P.O.L., 2019.
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Urâtul – de la categorie estetică și etică la stare sufletească

Autor: Maria-Otilia OPREA
Email: otilia.oprea@ulbsibiu.ro

The Ugly – from Aesthetic and Ethical Category to Spiritual State

In this article we propose an approach to the concept of ugly/ ugliness in the Romanian cultural realm, both from an aesthetic-ethical perspective, and especially from the spiritual-moral one. If physical ugliness can sometimes be the mask of inner beauty, spiritual ugliness is the obvious sign of impropriety and vainglory. Perched upon the fragile border with the beautiful, the ugly/ugliness flaunts a chameleonic character, usually joining forces with evil and simulating the good, the result being a destructive, tragic one. Regrettably, the ugly can degenerate into an (un)seen maleficent (omni)presence, as a factor of discord, of disturbance in the family, community and cosmic order.
However, the ugly can also be perceived as a spiritual state, as an ontic feeling, which gradually experiences longing, sadness, loneliness, taciturnity, mourning, despondency, boredom (akedia), or, in the worst case, the lack of will to live. The safe remedies offered by the Romanian people’spirituality are the song, musical lament (doina) and altruistic love, sublimated into the authentic ecclesial communion.

Keywords: ugly/ ugliness, impropriety, vainglory, akedia, beautiful/ beauty, longing, song, doina, love, faith/Romanian folk poetry

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Evagrie Ponticul, De oratione tractatus. / Tratat despre rugăciune. / Treaty on Prayer. Trad. rom. D. Stăniloae. În: Filocalia. / Philokalia. Vol. I. Bucureşti, Editura Harisma, 1992.
Hausherr, Irénée. Teologia lacrimilor. Plânsul şi străpungerea inimii la Părinţii răsăriteni. / Penthos. The Doctrine of Compunction in the Christian East. Sibiu, Editura Deisis, 2000, p. 230.
Isaac Sirul, Cuvinte despre sfintele nevoinţe. / Words on the Holy Struggles. Trad. rom. D. Stăniloae. În: Filocalia. / Philokalia. Vol. X. Bucureşti, E.I.B., 1981.
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Die Protokollierung der Hermannstädter frühneuzeitlichen Hexenprozesse

Autor: Carmen POPA
Email: carmen.popa@ulbsibiu.ro

Protocols of the Early Modern Witch Trials in Sibiu

Witch trials are an important phenomenon of Western European as well as Transylvanian social, religious and cultural history. The witch hunt spread throughout Europe and also reached Transylvania, even if it was not so common here. Those who have been proven to possess such witchcraft have been severely sanctioned by the law, in most cases by burning at the stake after witch trials involving a different number of witnesses. Although the model of the inquisition trial was used the existence of strict rules for the text structure cannot be proved. The analyzed texts show that the witchcraft protocols cannot be considered very rigid documents in the form, despite the rather similar structure (complaint, testimony, judgment), the sequence of articles of the law and some introductory and final formulas. The protocols are rather the result of the notary’s or clerk’s intention to carry out the change of perspective primarily by means of direct and indirect speech, to translate the dialect into a standard German language, and to use the corresponding Latin legal terms.

Keywords: witch trial protocols, text structure, text intention.

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Clarice Lispector, Patimile după G.H.: Metamorfoze și violență

Autor: Rodica GRIGORE
Email: rodica.grigore@ulbsibiu.ro

Clarice Lispector, The Passions after G.H.: Metamorphoses and Violence

Compared to Kafka, Joyce or Virginia Woolf, the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector fascinates the literary critics and also the common reading public. Her unusual narrative strategies and her taste for various stylistic experiments have transformed Lispector’s work in an open problem, many interpretations underlying the novelty of her writing and the difficulty to find a unique explanation for her symbols or artistic images. Her novel The Passion According to G.H. (1964) represents a meditation on literature and its essence, but also depicts the journey of the protagonist in search of her true self, in the attempt to assume (and affirm!) her individuality. G.H.’s encounter with the cockroach determines her spiritual awakening and encourages the reader themselves to try to find the true meaning of human existence.

Keywords: Latin American fiction, Brazilian literature, violence, feminine writing, sacred, sacrifice.

Clarice Lispector, Patimile după G. H. (The Passion According to G.H.) Traducere de Dan Munteanu Colán, Bucureşti, Editura Univers, 2015.
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Earl E. Fitz, Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector. The Differance of Desire, Austin, University of Texas Press, 2001.
Susanna Lindberg, “L’epreuve du Vivant. L’origine de la literature dans Passions selon G.H. de Clarice Lispector”, in “Festschrift” de Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback Ad Marciam. Edited by Jonna Bornemark and Hans Ruin, Södertörn Philosophical Studies 16, Hudding, 2017.
Irving Goh, “Le Toucher, le cafard, or, On Touching – the Cockroach in Clarice Lispector’s Passion according to G.H.”, în MLN, no. 131 (2016):
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Les quatre phases génétiques dans la Correspondance de Flaubert

Autor: Emilia-Ioana VAIDA
Email: emilia.vaida@ulbsibiu.ro

The Four Genetic Phases in Flaubert’s Correspondence

In the light of the extraordinary development of textual genetics, which proposes to rediscover the work’s text through its rough drafts and its preparatory documents, this article focuses on the genetic dimension of Gustave Flaubert’s Correspondence, as various letters illustrate the four genetic phases of some of his greatest works. A work’s collection of genetic documentation includes not only the writer’s autographic work manuscripts (work plans, scenarios, note-pads, documentary notes, rough drafts, fair copies, etc), but also various autographic writings useful to the comprehension of textual genetics such as the author’s correspondence, personal journal, etc. Flaubert’s Correspondence represents, in this context, one of the examples of 19th century writers’ correspondence whose genetic dimension proves to be extremely important.

Keywords: Gustave Flaubert, correspondence, letter, textual genetics, collection of genetic documentation, genetic phases.

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“Break It in Your Face, so He Break It Not Behind” On Shakespeare’s Toilet Puns and Their Romanian Translations

Autor: Anca-Simina MARTIN
Email: anca.martin@ulbsibiu.ro

“Break It in Your Face, so He Break It Not Behind” On Shakespeare’s Toilet Puns and Their Romanian Translations

“For all his admiration and even imitation of Rabelais, Shakespeare has hardly once or twice burnt so much as a stray pinch of fugitive incense on the altar of Cloacina,” notes Algernon Charles Swinburne poetically on the playwright’s toilet humor. Sixty years later, Eric Partridge, author of the seminal Shakespeare’s Bawdy, would reiterate, along much the same lines, the dramatist’s alleged contempt for the crudest of all manifestations of wit. Since then, however, scholarly attitudes toward crude humor have gradually become more lenient and inquisitive about what we perceive today as instances of off-colour wordplay, challenging linguistic myths about their anachronic attribution and devoting book-length studies to them. This article follows several of the Bard’s most obvious and obscure puns on the podex and flatulence in an attempt to ascertain whether Romanian translators have aligned themselves with this phenomenon or, if not, how they approach this form of Shakespearean wit.

Keywords: humour, off-colour, pun, Romanian, Shakespeare, toilet, translation, wordplay

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Ideologii alimentare şi mode lingvistice

Autor: Monica BORȘ
Email: monica.bors@ulbsibiu.ro

Alimentary ideologies and linguistic fashions

The present study aims at the construction of a glossary of terms related with the lexical field of alimentary diets. It will focus on the dynamics, semantics, and productivity of the lexical suffix -arian. Thus, it will build an inventory of its linguistic occurrences, differentiating between its uses as a noun and as an adjective, showing how the creative principle of the Romanian language functions concretely in this particular field.

Keywords: contemporary Romanian language, lexical creativity, suffix word formation, lexicon of alimentary diets, the suffix -arian

A Theoretical Perspective on Ekphrasis

Autor: Daria PÂRVU
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A Theoretical Perspective on Ekphrasis

The paper explores the most dominant theoretical approaches concerning ekphrasis, emphasizing the progress made over the centuries in refining the concept and pointing out the achievements and the limitations in ekphrastic theory.

Keywords: poetry, painting, ekphrasis, power of narration, power of resistance

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A Cultural Approach To Legal Translation: Contemporary Perspectives And Challenges

Autor: Eva-Nicoleta BURDUȘEL
Email: eva.burdusel@ulbsibiu.ro

A Cultural Approach To Legal Translation: Contemporary Perspectives And Challenges

The preliminary part of the paper aims to set the context by highlighting the binding and enduring connection between law and culture, particularly by informed understanding of different legal systems accompanied by harmonization of legal terminology endorsed by mutual awareness of cultural diversity. Furthermore, the main section of the presentation will provide a thorough and in-depth analysis of linguistic challenges and cultural barriers in the process of translating legal texts, exemplified by recent misuse of English loan words, which requires a high level of proficiency in the target and source languages in addition to a wise ability to adapt to the socio-cultural context and ultimately render a message that facilitates communication and endorses an accurate conveyance of legal terminology. To conclude, the challenges to legal translation are far beyond the linguistic area, as the field is imbued with different cultural contexts, shaped by socio-political and historical evolution, in addition to the wealth of legal terminology applications.

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Culturemele chineze – purtătorii celor mai subtile aluzii culturale – în traducere românească (I)

Autor: Iulia Elena GÎȚĂ
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Chinese Culturenes – the Becarers of the Most Subtle Cultural Implications – in Romanian Translation (I)

Culturemes are the markers of the source culture, which can reach the reader in the target language only through the ability of the translator, who must, in fact, be a great connoisseur of the most hidden cultural details. For the transposition of a foreign culture into a new culture, for a communication between them, a loan is needed, retrieval and processing of information so that it is accepted. In order to achieve this goal, a corpus of culturemes from 31 contemporary Chinese novels translated in Romanian between 2000 and 2018 through direct translation were analysed.

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Trei basme românești din colecțiile Petre Ispirescu și Grigore Crețu

Autor: Carmen OPRIȘOR
Email: carmen.oprisor@ulbsibiu.ro

Three Romanian Folk Tales Frame the Petre Ispirescu and Grigore Crețu Collections

In the first part of the present article wI focus on the content of two Romanian folk tale collections. The first belongs to Petre Ispirescu and the second to Grigore Crețu, writers who dedicated their lives to gathering folk stories. I while also identifying the main characteristics of these collections. Then we analysed three folk tales comparatiuely These folk tales have a common motif: the golden apple. The structure of these stories is similar, and the basic difference between them concerns the details regarding the complexity of tests the Prince Charming has to surpass. I dealt with the part each category of characters plays in these tales and I showed in details why this motif is so important in many European cultures, and what specific features it has in the Romanian folk stories.

Keywords: Romanian folklore, fairy-tale collections, narrative characteristics, Prince Charming, golden apples.

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Într-un oraș mic: Revoluția Română, între Videograme dintr-o revoluție și A fost sau n-a fost?

Autor: Victor MOROZOV
Email: victormoroz2015@gmail.com

In a Small Town: The Romanian Revolution between “Videograms of a Revolution” and “12:08 East of Bucharest”

This article aims to outline a series of connections and changes of paradigm regarding cinematographic representations of the Romanian Revolution, as they are reflected in two Romanian feature films that deal with this topic: Videograms of a Revolution (Andrei Ujică & Harun Farocki, 1992) and 12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2006). This comparison allows for a broader analysis with multiple theoretical territories in view: media theories (television as a concept and as a medium plays a major role in both films), post- and anticommunism and the memory of Revolution.

Keywords: revolution, Romanian New Wave, postcommunism, television, Porumboiu

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Hill, John. Sex, Class and Realism. Londra, BFI Publishing, 1986, 228p.
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Filmography:

Mitulescu, Cătălin. Cum mi-am petrecut sfârșitul lumii [The Way I Spent the End of the World], 2006.
Muntean, Radu. Hîrtia va fi albastră [The Paper Will Be Blue], 2006.
Porumboiu, Corneliu. A fost sau n-a fost? [12:08 East of Bucharest], 2006.
Ujică, Andrei; Farocki, Harun. Videograme dintr-o revoluție [Videograms of a Revolution], 1992.

Comunistul ca personaj negativ în filmul românesc de după 1989

Autor: Daniel IFTENE
Email: daniel.iftene@ubbcluj.ro

The Communist as Villain in the Romanian Cinema after 1989

In Romanian filmmaking, the fall of Ceausescu’s regime and, with it, of communism set in motion an entire movement seeking to retrieve the history of 1948-1989; on the one hand, this movement was in tune with similar local artistic manifestations and, on the other hand, with the variations of the political attitudes undertaken by the post-1989 generations. Many of the films launched after the Revolution approached the construction of a negative image of communism, especially by exposing its wrongdoings, where the center of gravity was the communist used as an essentially negative character vital for the operation of the victim-aggressor binomial. This study focuses on the main recurrences associated with the portrayal of the communist in the post-1990 Romanian film; thus, this analysis seeks to open bridges toward the understanding of the ways in which the domestic film allowed the anti-communist discourse to shape it, but it also looks into the modalities in which films, in their turn, shaped the said anti-communist discourse.

Keyword: communism, torture, villain, memory, post-socialism

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Chivu-Duță, Carmen; Albu, Mihai. Noi și Securitatea. Viața privată și publică în perioada comunistă, așa cum reiese din tehnica operativă [We and the Securitate. The Private and Public Life during Communism as Found in the Strategic Technique]. București, Editura Paralela 45, 2006, 224 p.
Comisia prezidențială pentru analiza dictaturii comuniste în România, Raport final [Final Report], disponibil la adresa web http://old.presidency.ro/static/rapoarte/Raport_final_CPADCR.pdf. București, 2006, 666 p.
Ernu, Vasile; Rogozanu, Costi; Șiulea, Ciprian; Țichindeleanu, Ovidiu. Iluzia anticomunismului: Lecturi critice la raportul Tismăneanu [The Anticommunist Illusion: Critical Readings of the Tismaneanu Report]. Chișinău, Editura Cartier, 2006, 280 p.
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Jela, Doina, Lexiconul negru: unelte ale represiunii comuniste [The Dark Lexicon: Instruments Of the Communist Repression], București, Editura Humanitas, 2001, 369 p.
Jela, Doina. Drumul Damascului. Spovedania unui fost torționar torţionar [The Road to Damascus. The Confession of an Ex-Torturer]. București, Editura Humanitas, 1999, 272 p.
Oprea, Marius. Banalitatea răului. O istorie a Securității în documente 1949-1989 [The Banality of Evil. A History of Securitate Through Documents 1949-1989]. Iași, Editura Polirom, 2002, 582 p.
Pintilie, Lucian. Bricabrac. București, Editura Humanitas, 2003, 536 p.
Poenaru, Florin. Locuri comune. Clasă, anticomunism, stânga [Commonplaces. Class, Anticommunism, the Left]. Cluj-Napoca, Editura Tact, 2017, 272 p.
Popovici, Iulia. „De mult vreau să te fut”. Sexul femeilor și puterea bărbaților în filmul tranziției [‘I’ve Wanted to Fuck You For a Long Time’. The Women’s Sex and the Power of Men in the Films from the Transition] în Filmul tranziției. Contribuții la interpretarea cinemaului românesc „nouăzecist” [The Film of the Transition. Contributions towards the Interpretation of the Romanian Cinema of the 90s’], coordonatori: Gorzo, Andrei; Filippi, Gabriela. Cluj-Napoca, Editura Tact, 2017, p. 133-150.
Puiu, Cristi. Nu sunt regizor [I Am Not a Film Director], interviu de Răzvan Chiruță, Scena 9, 13 mai 2016, disponibil la adresa web https://www.scena9.ro/article/cristi-puiu-sieranevada-cannes, consultat la 17.08.2019.
Ranalletti, Mario, State Terrorism on Film. Argentine Cinema during the First Years of Democracy (1983-1990), în A Companion to the Historical Film, coordonatori Rosenstone, Robert A.; Pârvulescu Constantin. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, p. 283-300.

Filmography:

Enache, Toma, De la chin la Amin [From Pain to Amen], 2019.
Gabrea, Radu. Mănuși roșii [Red Gloves], 2010.
Gallone, Carmine. Cătușe roșii [Odessa in Flames], 1942.
Gulea, Stere. Stare de fapt [State of Things], 1995.
Gulea, Stere. Sunt o babă comunistă [I’m a Communist Old Hag], 2013.
Gulea, Stere. Vulpe-vânător [Fox Hunter], 1993.
Marinescu, Șerban, Cel mai iubit dintre pământeni [The Most Beloved Earthling], 1993.
Mărgineanu, Nicolae, Binecuvântată fii, închisoare [Bless You, Prison], 2002.
Mărgineanu, Nicolae, Poarta Albă, 2014.
Mărgineanu, Nicolae. Undeva, în Est [Somewhere in the East], 1991.
Mungiu, Cristian. 4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile [4 months, 3 weeks, and 2 days], 2007.
Muntean, Radu, Hârtia va fi albastră [The Paper Will Be Blue], 2006.
Pintilie, Lucian. Balanța [The Oak], 1992.
Pintilie, Lucian. După amiaza unui torționar [The Afternoon of a Torturer], 2001.
Pița, Dan. Eu sunt Adam! [I Am Adam!], 1996
Popescu, Constantin. Portretul luptătorului la tinerețe [The Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man], 2010.
Porumboiu, Corneliu, A fost sau n-a fost? [12:08, East of Bucharest], 2006.
Puiu, Cristi, Sieranevada, 2016.
Visarion, Alexa. Vinovatul [The Guilty], 1991.

După-amiaza unui torţionar – anatomia unui caz imposibil

Autor: Andrei SIMUŢ
Email: andrei.simut@gmail.com

The Afternoon of a Torturer – the Anatomy of an Impossible Case

justifyleft;”>The author begins with the theory of the three representations of the Communist past, visible in the post-communist narrative discourse, both in literature and cinema, already discussed in previous articles. The present article brings forward new insights regarding the second representation, still inspired by the anticommunist stance, but already surpassing its limitations towards other narrative options and perspectives. Lucian Pintilie’s film The Afternoon of a Torturer is considered a key example due to the controversial aspect of the character portrayed, due to the factual dimension of the case and its implicit ambiguities.

Keywords: typologies of representation, figure of the survivor, figure of the bystander, retroactive justice.

Agamben, Giorgio. Ce rămâne din Auschwitz. Arhiva şi martorul [Remnants of Auschwitz. The Witness and the Archive]. Cluj-Napoca, Editura Idea Design & Print, 2006, 120 p.
Andreescu, Gabriel. Cărturari, opozanţi şi documente. Manipularea Arhivei Securităţii [Intellectuals, Dissidents and Documents. How the Securitate Archive was Manipulated]. Iaşi, Editura Polirom, 2013, 304 p.
Derrida, Jacques. Spectrele lui Marx. Starea datoriei, travaliul doliului şi noua Internaţională [ Specters of Marx: The State of Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International], Traducere Bogdan Ghiu şi Mihaela Cosma, prefaţă de Cornel Mihai Ionescu. Iaşi, Editura Polirom, 1999, 250 p.
Jela, Doina. Drumul Damascului. Spovedania unui fost torţionar [The Road to Damascus. The Confession of an Ex-Torturer], Ediţia a doua. Bucureşti, Editura Humanitas, 2002, 264 p.
Pintilie, Lucian. Bricabrac. Bucureşti, Editura Humanitas, 2003, 536 p.
Rev, Istvan. Retroactive Justice. Pre-history of Post-Communism. California, Stanford University Press, 2005, 360 p.
Rothberg, Michael. Traumatic Realism. The Demands of Holocaust Representation. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2000, 336 p.
Simuţ, Andrei. “Tipologii de reprezentare ale comunismului: strategia distopică”[„Types of representing the Communism. The Dystopian Strategy”], în Transilvania, nr. 5, 2015.
Simuţ, Andrei. Romanul românesc postcomunist între trauma totalitară şi criza prezentului. Tipologii, periodizări, contextualizări [The Romanian Post-Communist Novel between the Totalitarian Trauma and the present crisis. Typologies, Chronologies, Contexts]. Bucureşti, Editura Muzeului Literaturii Române, 2015, 163 p.

Filmography:

Fabien Anton, Marius Caraman. Cuvinte pentru comunişti, interviu cu Franz Ţandără [Words for Communists, interview with Franz Ţandără], 21 martie 2002, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD1yU9JCq2M, accesat la 5 noiembrie 2019.
Pintilie, Lucian. După-amiaza unui torţionar [The Afternoon of a Torturer], 2001.

„Chewing-gum pentru ochi”. Receptarea critică a filmului popular românesc de la începutul anilor ‘90

Autor: Mădălina POJOGA
Email: madalinapojoga94@gmail.com

“Chewing gum for the eyes”. The critical reception of ‘90s Romanian Popular Cinema

The critical exclusion of Romanian popular film occurred both in the communist age and in the transition period of the 1990s. With a primary focus on the author’s intent and on the film director, the genre films, although successful with their audience, occupied a peripheral position in the studies regarding Romanian filmmaking, since, in general, they are entertainment productions.
This article seeks to look deeper into the critical reception of popular films in the magazine Cinema in communism, but also in Noul Cinema [New Cinema] (1990-1998), to prove that, regardless of the political system, they were regarded from the same point of view, which emphasized their irrelevance, their poor quality or the use of Western formulae. Second of all, the analysis of popular films that scored high among the audience at the beginning of the 1990s, which were made by directors who had also been active in socialist filmmaking, shows that not only the authors promoted by the magazine Noul Cinema and who made anti-communist movies approached the transition phenomenon, but also those who chose commercial filmmaking.

Keywords: popular cinema, postsocialism, Romanian cinema, entertainment.

Baranga, Aurel. Filme de succes și filme de avangardă [Successful films and avantgarde films]. În: Cinema, anul VIII, 11/1970, p. 11.
Burileanu, Bogdan. Filmul se vede. Gustul se modelează [The film is seen. The taste can be changed]. În: Noul Cinema, anul XXX, 4/1991, p. 6.
Coroiu, Irina. Jolly jocker. În: Noul Cinema, anul XXX, 5/1991, p. 6
Darian, Adina. Cădere în piața liberă [Freefalling in the free market]. În: Noul Cinema, anul XXXIII, 2/1994, p. 3.
Darian, Adina. De unde începe re-începutul? [Where does the restart begin?]. În: Noul Cinema, anul XXXI, 2/1992, p. 6-7.
Duță, Mihai. Producția națională în perioada 1973-1979 și baremul succesului de casă [National production during 1973-1979 and commercial success]. În: Cinema, anul XVIII, 5/1980, p. 20.
Frunzetti, Ion. Masa rotundă a revistei Cinema. Stagiunea 1964-1965 [Cinema Magazine’s Round Table. Season 1964-1965]. În: Cinema, anul III, 8/1965, p. 7-8.
Imre, Aniko. Postcolonial Media Studies in Postsocialist Europe. În: Boundary 2, 2014, p. 113-134.
Kovačević, Nataša. Narrating Post/Communism. Colonial Discourse and Europe’ Borderline Civilization. Londra, Editura Routledge, 2008, 236 p.
Mașek, Victor Ernst. Filmul se vede. Gustul se modelează [The film is seen. The taste can be changed]. În: Noul Cinema, anul XXX, 4/1991, p. 7.
Mazaj, Meta. Eastern European Cinema on the Margins. În: Studies in East European Cinemas, Vol.1,1/2010, p. 188-207.
Mureșan, Mircea. Bani publici pentru filme fără public [Public funds for films without an audience]. În: Noul Cinema, anul XXX, 12/1991, p. 4.
Ostrowska, Dorota; Pitassio, Francesco; Varga, Zsuzsanna. Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe. Film Cultures and Histories. Londra, Editura I.B. Tauris, 2017, 345 p.
Stan, V. Sunteți mulțumiți de ceea ce vedeți pe ecranele noastre? [Are you satisfied with what you see in our cinemas?] În: Cinema, anul VI, 11/1968, p. 11
Toderici, Radu. Deceniul autorilor. Ce s-a întâmplat cu filmul românesc în anii 90? [The authors’decade. What happened with the 90s Romanian film?] În: Filmul tranziției. Contribuții la interpretarea cinemaului românesc „nouăzecist”, coordonatori Andrei Gorzo; Gabriela Filippi, Cluj-Napoca, Editura Tact, 2017, p. 187-217.

Filmography:

Bostan, Elisabeta. Promisiuni [Promises], 1985.
Cocea, Dinu. Seria Haiducii [The Haïdouks series], 1966-1971.
Corjos, Nicolae. Seria Liceenii [The Graduates series], 1985-1987.
Corjos, Nicolae. Liceenii Rock’n’Roll [Rock’n’Roll Graduates], 1991.
Drăgan, Mircea. Neamul Șoimăreștilor, 1965.
Drăgan, Mircea. Seria Brigada Diverse [Brigada Diverse series], 1970-1971.
Mărgineanu, Nicolae. Privește înainte cu mânie [Look Forward in Anger], 1993.
Moldovan, Mircea. Seria Bobocilor [Freshmen series] (1975-1985, România: Casa de filme 1)
Munteanu, Francisc. Vară sentimentală [A Sentimental Summer], 1987.
Mureșan, Mircea. Toate pânzele sus! [All Sails Set, TV Series], 1976-1978.
Mureșan, Mircea. Miss Litoral [Miss Littoral]. 1990.
Mureșan, Mircea. A doua cădere a Constantinopolului [The Second Fall of Constantinople], 1994.
Plângău, Mircea. Liceenii în alertă [Gradutes on their toes], 1993.
Saizescu, Geo. Sosesc păsările călătoare [Here Come the Summer Birds], 1984.

Book review: Anna BATORI, “Space in Romanian and Hungarian Cinema”

Autor: Călina-Maria MOLDOVAN
Email: calinamoldovan@yahoo.com

Book review: Anna BATORI, Space in Romanian and Hungarian Cinema

This review critiques Anna Batori’s Space in Romanian and Hungarian Cinema. The author of this innovative approach on two of the major Eastern European cinemas focuses on the functions of space and spatiality in the Romanian and Hungarian films from the socialist and the post-socialist period, continuing the concepts of space and visibility, as theorised by Henri Lefebvre. In her work, Batori describes and analyses the sense of enclosure that these cinemas favour, either vertical, in the communist buildings under Ceausescu, or horizontal, in the Hungarian Alföld.

Keywords: Anna Batori, Romanian Cinema, Hungarian Cinema, post-socialist, films, space

Reprezentări ale spațiilor carcerale în cinematografia română post-comunistă

Autor: Flavia DIMA
Email: dima.flavia@gmail.com

Representations of Carceral Spaces in Post-Communist Romanian Cinema

Amongst the key themes in the post-communist Romanian cinema, the topic of communist prisons was the one which elicited the most virulent anti-communist discourse. In this piece, an analysis of three films – The Earth’s Most Beloved Son, The Afternoon of a Torturer and Arrest – reveals the types of mechanisms that these representations elicit, from the dichotomic portraits of the torturer and the tortured, their distinctive formal construction elements, as well as the ways in which these films relate to theoretical territories of authors such as Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt.

Keywords: carceral, post-communism, anti-communism, filmic representations

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