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In this introduction the author proposes that hesitation, as a guiding concept for the book, can provide a theoretical focus for analyses of feature films from the state socialist era, the television broadcasts of the 1989 revolution, and the contemporary films of the New Romanian Cinema. Additionally, he previews the three variations of hesitation as an artistic and spectatorial strategy: modernist, legitimizing, and performative hesitation.
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In the current study I refer to this group of films as “New Romanian Cinema” or “contemporary Romanian cinema,” and do not use “Romanian New Wave” as applied elsewhere. My reasons for preferring these terms are related to my intention to avoid the historically weighted label “new wave.”
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Throughout the process of writing the book, I presented parts of the work at various conferences with the financial assistance of the OTKA grant [NN 112700] “Space-ing Otherness: Cultural Images of Space, Contact Zones in Contemporary Hungarian and Romanian Film and Literature.”
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Strausz, L. (2017). Introduction. In: Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55272-9_1
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