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Educația ateistă și filmul de popularizare a științei în România socialistă (I): evoluția aparatului de propagandă științifică
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Atheist education and popular science film in socialist Romania (I):
The Evolution of the scientific propaganda apparatus
Abstract: The present research aims to analyze the cinematographic production of science popularization from the perspective of its belonging to a broader configuration of practices and manifestations initiated and controlled by the propaganda apparatus. Drawing on archival documents, the article reconstructs the activities and operating principles of the Society for the Dissemination of Science and Culture, which until the 1960s was the main institution mandated by the state to popularize scientific knowledge and materialist-dialectical beliefs on a large scale, and whose infrastructure, thematic grid, and dissemination circuits circumscribe and prefigure the evolution of science popularization cinema. The transcripts of the meetings of the various sections of the SDSC or the Central Committee, the instructions, reports and field briefings that will be analyzed in this article, reflect the decision-making processes and internal resorts of the propaganda structures, but also the atmosphere on the ground and the measures mobilized by the bodies responsible for scientific education of the masses in general and the atheist issue in particular.
Keywords: popular science film, socialist useful cinema, atheist education
Acknowledgement: Această lucrare a fost susținută de proiectul „Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis” finanțat de Uniunea Europeană – NextgenerationEU și Guvernul României, în cadrul Planului Național de Redresare și Reziliență pentru România, contract nr. 760044//23.05.2023, cod PNRR-C9-I8-CF104/15.11.2022, prin Ministerul Cercetării, Inovării și Digitalizării, în cadrul Componentei 9, Investiția I8.
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