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analysis of Cristi Puiu
Antihero
art house films from Romania
Auteur
Author_Monica Filimon
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cinema
Cinematic narrator
Communist
Confession
contemporary Romanian cinema
Detached introspection
Direct cinema
Empathetic
Empathy
Epiphany
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Ethnographic reconstruction
Ethnography
Father
Generational divide
Gutter cinema
Hysterical
Implied author
Mask
Memory
Minimalism
Nationalism
Nationalist
New Romanian Cinema and world cinema
Nostalgia
Objective violence
Observational camera
Participatory documentary
Patriarchal
Postcommunist
Postnational
Precariat
Profane
Puiu in European film culture
Realism
Redundant male
Romanian art films
Sacred
Subjective violence
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Thick description
Traumatic citizenship
use of handheld camera
Product details
- ISBN 9780252040764
- Weight: 367g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2017
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Cristi Puiu's black comedy The Death of Mr. Lazarescu announced the arrival of the New Romanian Cinema as a force on the film world stage. As critics and festival audiences embraced the new movement, Puiu emerged as its lodestar and critical voice. Monica Filimon explores the works of an artist dedicated to truth not as an abstract concept, but as the ephemeral revelation of the fuller, ungraspable world beyond the screen. Puiu's innovative use of the handheld camera as an observer and his reliance on austere, restricted narration highlight the very limits of human understanding, guiding the viewer's intellectual and emotional sensibilities to the reality that has been left unfilmed. Filimon examines the director's ethics of epiphany not only in relation to the collective and personal histories that have triggered it, but also in dialogue with the films, texts, and filmmakers that have shaped it.
Monica Filimon is an assistant professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY.
