TY - GEN AB - This book argues that hesitation as an artistic and spectatorial strategy connects various screen media texts produced in post-war Romania. The chapters draw a historical connection between films made during the state socialist decades, televised broadcasts of the 1989 Romanian revolution, and films of the new Romanian cinema. The book explores how the critical attitude of new Romanian cinema demonstrates a refusal to accept limiting, binary discourses rooted in Cold War narratives. Strausz argues that hesitation becomes an attempt to overcome restrictive populist narratives of the past and present day. By employing a performative and mobile position, audiences are encouraged to consider conflicting approaches to history and social transformation. AU - Strausz, László. CN - PN1992.63 DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-55272-9 DO - doi ID - 807332 KW - Culture KW - Ethnology KW - Motion pictures and television. KW - Historiography. KW - Russia KW - Europe, Eastern LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-55272-9 N2 - This book argues that hesitation as an artistic and spectatorial strategy connects various screen media texts produced in post-war Romania. The chapters draw a historical connection between films made during the state socialist decades, televised broadcasts of the 1989 Romanian revolution, and films of the new Romanian cinema. The book explores how the critical attitude of new Romanian cinema demonstrates a refusal to accept limiting, binary discourses rooted in Cold War narratives. Strausz argues that hesitation becomes an attempt to overcome restrictive populist narratives of the past and present day. By employing a performative and mobile position, audiences are encouraged to consider conflicting approaches to history and social transformation. SN - 9783319552729 SN - 3319552724 T1 - Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen / TI - Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-55272-9 ER -