PT Journal
AU Turcus, C
TI Restructuring a Cinema That Didn't Exist. The Romanian Film Industry of the 1990s
SO Iluminace
PY 2017
BP 9
EP 26
VL 29
IS 3
DI 10.58193/ilu.1528
WP https://iluminace.cz/en/artkey/ilu-201703-0002.php
DE Romanian film industry; Romanian National Archive; cultural production; film production
SN 0862397X
AB This article documents and describes the ways in which the Romanian film industry was restructured in the 1990s. It also explores the structural, legislative, financial and ideological continuities of this period with the manner in which this field of cultural production was organized in the 1970s and the 1980s. Using a contextual analysis of several documents from the National Archives of Romania (RoFilm Fund, 1986-1989), interviews with the most influential film directors of that period as primary research data, and scholarly sources (both in Romanian and English), I argue that the collapse of the state-socialist mode of film production, financing, and distribution produced adverse structural effects in the 1990s, undermining the desired relaunch of the Romanian film industry as a national cinema and postponing the integration of Romanian cinema within a transnational network.
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