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2023, Christian Century
Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu takes a hammer to true-to-life events and then puts the pieces back together again. R.M.N. is a kaleidoscopic allegory of all of Western civilization.
2022 •
This article examines two important cinematic works by Romanian director Cristian Mungiu. The analysis of Four Months, Three Weeks and Two Days (2007) and Beyond The Hills (2012) features a historical perspective that emphasizes how a political context is able to affect the health of the female protagonists. In an effort to find a suitable answer, the present exercise will reference different theoretical frameworks like Althusser's ideology, Foucault's biopolitics, Schmitt's and Agamben's theory of the state of exception or Benjamin's cultural thought. Close readings of key scenes from both movies will also constitute a significant element of this study. The conclusion will bespeak a rather innovative solution that underscores the director's artistic excellence.
Res Historica
Narratives of Cruel: Cristian Mungiu's Cinematic Work and the Political Imaginary of East-Central Europe2020 •
This article employs Lauren Berlant’s concepts of cruel optimism and impasse to explain the way the cinematic work of Cristian Mungiu comments on the condition of small East-Central European cultures. The article analyzes 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), Beyond the Hills (2012) and Graduation (2016), and draws evidence from the narrative structure of these films, gender and social and economic condition of their characters, as well as the audiovisual poetics of their endings. The main point of the article is that Mungiu’s films criticize a mental mapping East-Central Europe with origins in the Cold War that imagines it as a region of small nations in the permanent state of danger and in need of urgent protection. Mungiu’s films show that this mapping exposes these cultures to inescapable cycles of political abuse. The slow and contemplative endings of Mungiu’s films also propose a solution. They gesture toward the development of a condition of political hovering that, as interruption, may enable East-Central European political imaginaries to envision more creative solutions to escape cycles of abuse. This interruption is linked to the memory of 1989 and to the historical openness 1989 created. As a political approach for East-Central European cultures, interruption is a strategy of letting one’s political imaginary be inspired to the opening of 1989.
Journal of European Studies
A psychoanalytical approach to Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days2018 •
Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4, 3, 2 for short) is a classic of the new wave in Romanian cinema. Centred on the paternalistic and patriarchal relationship between political power and women, this analysis reveals the psychological effects of traumatic situations and how unconscious (hidden, often irrational) drives determine human behaviour in subjects living under totalitarianism. This article provides a reading of the film through such concepts as the (male) gaze, the law in relation to the figure of the father and the Lacanian orders of the symbolic and the real, the split personality of the abused woman as both subject and object, and life/death instincts in the face of totalitarian intrusion into the reproductive rights of women. This kind of analysis sheds new light on the nuances of the film and the significance of the silence in it by exposing the symbolic reality of communist totalitarianism as opposed to a seemingly authentic Lacanian real that is hidden in the silence and in the materiality of the female body.
Journal of European Studies
A psychoanalytical approach to Cristian Mungiu’s <i>4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days</i>2018 •
2022 •
The paper parses the major existing literature, in English and Romanian, on the New Romanian Cinema (also called the Romanian New Wave) which became an international film-festival sensation in the mid-2000s. It maps the main lines of disagreement among the various scholars who have attempted to define this phenomenon. The paper argues that the Romanian cinema that had made its dazzling debut on the international scene some 15 years ago has gradually turned into something else – something harder to pin down to an aesthetic paradigm, to a core generational group of ten or so filmmakers, or to a limited set of ideological coordinates. Finally, the paper proposes that the evolving body of work of director Radu Jude (who has established himself in recent years as a major innovator) provides a good lens through which to take the measure of those aesthetic and political changes.
Bruno Munari: The Lightness of Art
The Small, The Large and the Moving: Bruno Munari and Cinema2017 •
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Studies in Eastern European Cinema
Rereading New Romanian Cinema: Minimalism, intermediality, and ethics2020 •
The article provides a critical look at some of the recent academic literature (in English) on the New Romanian Cinema (NRC). It mainly engages with three texts: a book-length appreciative introduction (by Monica Filimon) to the work of writer-director Cristi Puiu: a highly ambitious attempt (by László Strausz) to trace, within Romanian culture, the tradition that the NRC could be said to belong to; and a harsh ideological critique of the NRC (by Bogdan Popa).
Academia Medicine
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The Routledge International Handbook of Life and Values Education in Asia
What Kind of Global Citizenship for Japanese Higher Education? Five Ethical Dimensions (Bosio, 2024)2024 •
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Physical Review D
Measurement of the top quark mass with the dynamical likelihood method using lepton plus jets events withb-tags inpp¯collisions ats=1.96 TeV2006 •
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International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Evaluation of Internal Reference Genes for Quantitative Expression Analysis by Real-Time PCR in Ovine Whole Blood2011 •
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Management of neglected complex hangman’s fracture by reforming the C2 pedicle: new innovative technique of motion preservation at the C1–2 joint in 2 cases2020 •