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Romanian Cinematic Nationhood
Author(s) -
Andreescu Florentina C.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
studies in ethnicity and nationalism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.204
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1754-9469
pISSN - 1473-8481
DOI - 10.1111/sena.12000
Subject(s) - legitimacy , romanian , communism , fantasy , constructivism (international relations) , politics , sociology , transition (genetics) , position (finance) , space (punctuation) , political science , epistemology , aesthetics , international relations , philosophy , law , literature , art , chemistry , linguistics , biochemistry , finance , economics , gene
This article analyses the way the concept of nation is reflected in film using the theory of cinematic nationhood and the method of relational constructivism. More specifically, it looks at how the nation can be legitimised when it occupies a strategic position within the national structure of fantasy and when it is closely associated with the most relevant commonplaces present within the social space. The article further investigates the situation in which the concept of nation loses legitimacy because of a change in the way it is imagined. The research addresses the case of R omania, choosing three films representing three distinct periods and characterised by different forms of political and economic organisation: communism, transition, and post‐transition.