„Police, Adjective”: The Words and the Things

1 februarie 2019 · de Andrei Gorzo | în English, Noul Cinema Românesc, Regizori români, Teorie | etichetat 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days, Close Up, Corneliu Porumboiu, Cristi Puiu, Cristian Mungiu, Dragoș Bucur, indexicality, New Romanian Cinema, Peter Wollen, Police Adjective, Radu Muntean, Romanian new wave, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, Stuff and Dough, The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu, The Paper Will Be Blue, UNATC, Vlad Ivanov

I have an article in the new issue of Close Up (a Film Studies journal edited by UNATC). It’s on Police, Adjective and it considers Porumboiu’s film as an illustration of Peter Wollen’s influential 1969 adaptation of Charles Sanders Peirce’s trichotomy of signs – iconic, indexical and symbolic signs – to the field of film theory. Below is an excerpt. […]

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21 noiembrie 2017 · de Andrei Gorzo | în Cărți de cinema, English, Noul Cinema Românesc, Regizori români, Teorie | etichetat 13-19 iulie 1998 – Azilul de bătrâni Craiova, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Girl's Tear, Alex Cistelecan, Alexandra Gulea, Alexandru Baciu, Alexandru Tatos, André Bazin, Andreea Păduraru, Andrei State, Andrei Ujică, Angela Goes on, anti-communism, Antonioni, Aurora, Bazin as Modernist, Bazinian realism, Bobby Păunescu, Christian Ferencz-Flatz, Cigarettes and Coffee, cinematic modernism, Colin MacCabe, communism, Contemporary Romanian Cinema: The History of an Unexpected Miracle, Corneliu Porumboiu, Cristi Puiu, Cristian Mungiu, Dardenne brothers, Didi Danquart, Dogme 95, Dominique Nasta, Filmul tranziției. Contribuții la interpretarea cinemaului românesc "nouăzecist", Francesca, Frederick Wiseman, Gabriela Filippi, Graduation, Hacker, Harun Farocki, Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen, Incursiuni fenomenologice în noul film românesc, Iosif Demian, John Cassavetes, Kornél Mundruczó, László Strausz, Lucian Blaga, Lucian Bratu, Lucian Pintilie, Lucruri care nu pot fi spuse altfel, Lucruri care nu pot fi spuse altfel. Un mod de a gîndi cinemaul André Bazin la Cristi Puiu, Microphone Test, Miorița, Mircea Daneliuc, modernist self-reflexivity, Monica Filimon, New Romanian Cinema, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Niki and Flo, NRC, Offset, Police Adjective, Politicile filmului. Contribuții la interpertarea cinemaului românesc contemporan, post-communism, Radu Muntean, Raymond Depardon, realist-modernist aesthetics, Reconstruction, Romanian new wave, Răzvan Rădulescu, self-reflexivity, Sequences, Sieranevada, Stere Gulea, Stuff and Dough, Tact, Teodosie cel Mic, The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu, The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu, The Mioritic Space, The Paper Will Be Blue, The Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Romanian Communist Dictatorship, Traian Băsescu, Viața și faptele lui Ilie Cazane, Videograms of a Revolution, When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism

Monica Filimon, Cristi Puiu, University of Illinois Press, 2017; László Strausz, Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Monica Filimon’s Cristi Puiu is the first book in English about the film director and writer who did more than anyone else to redefine Romanian cinema in the 2000s. An assistant professor of English […]

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