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CHALLENGING THE ROMA STRUCTURAL DISCRIMINATION: DETERRITORIALIZATION PRACTICES IN ROMANIAN CINEMA.
- Source :
- Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies & Theory; Dec2021, Vol. 7 Issue 2, p46-68, 23p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- This paper examines the cinematographic reworking of memory spaces associated with power relations and structural injustice. The way in which space is represented and used as a medium that reflects power relations allows to question the space itself in cultural productions from Central-Eastern Europe when associated with Romani people (space and power relations, memory of slavery and discrimination, space and freedom, territoriality, space and its inhabitants, non-belonging, segregation, etc.). The paper focuses on motion pictures produced in the last decade in Romania, a prolific period due to the increasing interest for memory activism and to the multiplication of the cultural exploration of challenging topics. It aims to identify narrative, visual, and aesthetic expressions used as deterritorialization practices to stimulate relational remembrance and engagement with ongoing social inequality and structural injustice. Two short films - Alina Șerban' s Bilet de iertare (Letter of forgiveness) and Adrian Silișteanu's Scris/Nescris (Written/Unwritten) - and a western type film - Radu Jude's Aferim!, winner of the Silver Bear for Best director at Berlinale in 2015, are analysed here. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- EQUALITY
SHORT films
ROMANIES
WESTERN films
CULTURAL activism
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 24578827
- Volume :
- 7
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies & Theory
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 154234961
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2021.12.03