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National Minorities in the Contemporary Romanian Cinema: From Cheap Exotism to Self- Representation
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Abstract: This study aims to map the representation of national minorities in Romanian fiction films from 1990 to 2021 and to highlight the main mechanisms employed by local filmmakers to portray the local multicultural landscape. Starting with the films of the transition period and the approaches of directors like Lucian Pintilie and Mircea Daneliuc in reflecting on the minority-majority relationship, the study offers a comparison with three fiction films where authors from ethnic minorities themselves take control of narratives about their own communities. By doing so, these filmmakers—Radu Gabrea, Toma Enache and Alina Șerban—shape the discourse generated about their communities. Thus, the study seeks to shed light on both the transition toward self-representation of ethnic minorities in contemporary fiction films and the differences between these moments of self-representation and former cinematic depictions of local ethnic minorities.
Keywords: minority, ethnicity, transition, Lucian Pintilie, Mircea Daneliuc, Radu Gabrea, Alina Șerban, self-representation
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