Review of cinematographic studies, nr.1/2007

SUMMARY

Editorial: GEORGE URECHE, Cultural manager, The PRO Foundation

I. Cinematographic Art

Film as a business - PhD Lucian Pricop, Media University

Cinematography and television as economic activities take part in the evolution process of the social, economical and political environment of the society, adapting itself to every country. This is why in this context the examination of the intervention ways of the political power in the mass-media it's very useful.

Dance Drama - a Complete Performance - PhD. Carmen STANCIU, National University of Theatre and Film, "I.L. Caragiale", Bucharest

Abstract: The dance drama is frequently considered 'a two-headed monster', an anomaly therefore undesirable. And if it is meant to continue to exist, then it should remain exiled in the 'experimental' laboratories. Why is the 'marriage' of these two arts so similar to incest for many people? Both of them generate visual imagery, both use acting and/or pantomime, both are based on the human body in action, both have a similar relation with music. The type of performance invented by Pina Bausch and her dancers is an act of subversion of drama by means of dance. The drama critics do not deceive themselves when they say these shows more and more evidently that the motion and the human body are not means of expression among others, but they are at the origin of all the other modalities of artistic expression in the art of performance.
The dance drama creates a real fascination over the theater people: the speaking dancer is the expression of a violent and visceral desire to express. His gesture produces a more powerful impact than the organized speech of the dramatic text. This is the advantage of the dance drama: by giving voice to the body, it becomes the sound box of the events, of the sensitive sites where fears, afflictions and hopes of the contemporaneous man painfully intersect.

Motion/emotion. Movies as emotion carriers - Assistant professor Monica Mitarca, Media University

Abstract: "Motion/emotion" is a theory trying to explain the way secondary meaning (connotation) build up, the last hundred of years, alongside primary meaning (denotation), in cinematography, in order to convey meaning/messages/stories. The analysis will use etymological and cultural studies tools.
Film - motion picture - movie: a triad we set off to explore, within the perspective opened by the cultural studies and media studies, to advance the "motion/emotion" theory.

II. Cultural studies (The documentation for annual movie)

The theme of the issue: The 18th Century
A brief history - Prof. GABRIEL LICAROIU, St. Silvestru Church

In the north-east of Bucharest,not far from the historical centre, The Ancient court, we can find Silvestru quarter, which is as old as the church dedicated to the holly protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary. At the end of this century and milenium, our church adds to the crown of serving the God,and the people, its 264-th year. The founders of this holyhouse of preying for the orthodox christians service past centuries master Parvan and his wife Stanca, wealthz merchants of thick-cloth, chose for the church built by them, the religious festival, the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Book Thieves in the 18th Century - Academician DAN HORIA MAZILU, The Romanian Academy

Book thefts were already signaled in the 16th century, a thing telling about their value - not only spiritual but also material because, either manuscripts or printed, book were works of art, sometimes inlayed with jewels or mounted in silver. The 18th century brings about some interesting notes which, corroborated, may re-compose a small history where book thieves were chased, cursed and sometimes caught. Interesting under this anthropological aspect, the book theft and recovery references bring forth a subjective and intensely emotional side of Romanian culture.

Antim Ivreanul - i Didahii, la supremazione del genere oratorio - PhD CLAUDIA COSTIN, Stefan cel Mare University

Antim Ivreanul, una personalita potente, come fu l'epoca in cui visse, dominata dall'arte barocca di Brancoveanu, un erudita, quell'oratore e scrittore della vecchia letteratura che apprezza l'originalita e non contento solo di fare delle citazioni e di trasformarle. I didahii - un opera vitale che situa Antim Ivreanul fra i nomi di riferimento della letteratura oratoria medievale, composta da 28 prediche che il metropolita predicava nei primi decenni del XVIII-esimo secolo (1708-1716). Antim mette in evidenza la mentalita di una colettivita e la 'problematica' di un microuniverso umano che analizza criticamente.

Trends and Manners in the 18th century - PhD candidate ANDREEA RASUCEANU, Center of Excellence in Image Study

The Romanian XVIIIth century is illustrative for a most powerful influence of the Levant, which came as the last pulsation of the Turkish and Greek great influences, before the modernity was born, at the beginning of the XIXth century. This is a world of all excesses, of ostentatious luxury and celebration of the human body. Yet, beneath this cover of shalowness glimmered a certain philosophy of life, a way of conceiving destiny and an attitude towards the great importance of life in all its manifestations.

A Walachian Testament From The 18th Century - PhD. Doina Rusti, Media University, Bucharest

Abstract: The essay comments on an 18th century private document. A merchant woman of Bucharest called Stanca records her final intentions in her will, which partially recomposes an attitude towards life, and the mentalities and values of the century. She establishes a church called Silvestru that still exists today and leaves her entire fortune in the trust of a bead merchant, putting him in charge of managing the church. The message expressed by Stanca's story is both essentially human and surprising, considering her social and historical environment; the fear of death, the sense of guilt, the dread of failure and her faith in God motivate her endeavor.

III. Document-Books

Neagu Djuvara's Civilisations et Lois Historiques and Its (Lack of An) American Reception, or About a Certain Oldness of the New Europe - PhD candidate MIRCEA PLATON, History Dept.,Ohio State University at Columbus

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