Covering more than forty films made since 2001 - including The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The Paper will be Blue, Police, Adjective and Beyond the Hills - this pioneering collection of essays on New Romanian Cinema is the first to contextualise it aesthetically, theoretically and historically. Scholars from across Europe and North America are brought together, reflecting on the realism, minimalism and intermedial artifice of New Romanian cinemas, on its approaches to issues of national and gender identity, and on its unique convergence of ethics and aesthetics.
With its thorough bibliographic and filmographic references, and a comprehensive historical overview, the anthology represents a systematic guide to New Romanian Cinema as a consolidated cinematic movement, and highlights its potential as a rich interdisciplinary field of study.
About the Author: Dana Duma is Professor in Film Studies at the Bucharest National University of Theatre and Film. Member of FIPRESCI, she is a regular contributor to the film press in Romania and abroad, and a frequent member of international festival juries. She published the books Self-portraits of Cinema: Gopo, Woody Allen: a Bufoon and a Philosopher; Benjamin Fondane. Cineaste, and co-edited the anthologies Cinema 2000: Tendencies in European cinema, The Personality of Latin-American Cinema. She is the director of Film magazine and the editor of film and media studies journal Close-up.
Christina Stojanova is a media historian, specializing in philosophical, ideological, and analytical-psychological aspects of narrative modes and fictional representation in the cinemas of Quebec, interwar Germany, and Eastern and Central Europe. Associate professor at the Department of Film, University of Regina, since 2005 she has contributes 20 chapters to internationally acclaimed publications, two of which - Wittgenstein at the Movies (2011) and The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard (2014) - she has co-edited. Editor of the forthcoming The New Romanian Cinema (2019), she is currently working on monograph about Canadian animator Caroline Leaf.
