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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mandelli, Elisa
• Dana Duma
• Christina Stojanova

Titel

REMEDIATION AND MINIMALISM IN NEW ROMANIAN CINEMA: THE EXAMPLE OF CRISTI PUIU

Ist Teil von

• The New Romanian Cinema, 2019, p.107

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter addresses the question of minimalism in New Romanian Cinema, as exemplified and epitomised by Cristi Puiu’s films, in relation to cases of remediation. It mainly follows Doru Pop’s definition of Puiu’s minimalism as a reduction of cinematic language to its basics, or as a ‘technical abstinence’, with the purpose of concentrating on the essentials, on ‘pure and simple realities’ (2014: 66). With regard to the concept of ‘remediation’, the chapter follows Jay David Bolter’s and Richard Grusin’s definition, which refers to the ‘representation of one medium in another’ (1999: 45). Although this rather broad definition has been both