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This study proposes a twofold analysis: the presumable strategies of the December 1989 events in Romania and their complexity as it appears in later filmic re-enactments. These re-enactments as theatrical “translations” offer a rhetorical reading of past events, and can also be seen as practices of memories inscribed in the body. The events are interpreted in the duality of the archival image and the acoustic/gestural memory, where the latter is understood as an atmospheric (bodily) memory. The disorientation or disinformation caused by the technical conditions, the circulation or lack of images, the alternating silences and chanting on the street make the past events incomprehensible and medially dissonant.1

Multiple Revolutions. Remediating and Re-enacting the Romanian Events of 1989

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies

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This study proposes a twofold analysis: the presumable strategies of the December 1989 events in Romania and their complexity as it appears in later filmic...

Multiple Revolutions. Remediating and Re-enacting the Romanian Events of 1989

Published Online: Jan 19, 2018

Page range: 95 - 130

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausfm-2017-0005

Keywords
re-enactments of historical events, films about December 1989 in Romania, the experience of space, body and memory

© 2017 Mónika Dánél, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Multiple Revolutions. Remediating and Re-enacting the Romanian Events of 1989

Published Online: Jan 19, 2018

Page range: 95 - 130

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausfm-2017-0005

Keywordsre-enactments of historical events, films about December 1989 in Romania, the experience of space, body and memory

© 2017 Mónika Dánél, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
re-enactments of historical events, films about December 1989 in Romania, the experience of space, body and memory