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Work, Ideology, and Film under Socialism in Romania
Studies in the Sociology of Film
Series: - Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 289
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Work, Ideology, and Film under Socialism in Romania examines the cinematic architecture of work imaginary as developed through films produced between 1960 and 1989. This book provides rich insight into the intimate configuration of cinematic thinking of work and displays of this form of social life, with focus on the relationship between conceived and lived ideology of work during socialist modernization, on the relationship between individuals and political power in the (reflexive) experiences, and contexts of work.
Roxana Cuciumeanu has a Ph.D. in Sociology (2012) from the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA Bucharest) and is lecturer at the same university (SNSPA, Faculty of Political Science). She is interested in visual/film sociology, ideology and political culture, work and urban sociology, and research methods in the social sciences.
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Films and Directors
Introduction
1âWork, Modernity, and Film
1âFrom Furniture on Fire to Image Reversibility
2âImages of Work and Social Contexts that Produce Images of Work
2âFilm as Instrument of the Sociological Imagination
1âFilm towards a Quality of the Mind
2âThe Dramatized Construction of Reality
3âStructural Components of Film Mechanism
3âWork and Ideology
1âWork: Etymological Roots, Semantic Structures, and Ideological Meanings
2âWork at Marx. Historical Concept and Practical Reality
3âWorking People and Social Class(es)
4âWorkers, Social Class, and âSocialistâ Urbanization
5âElements of Urbanization in Romania
6âElements of Work System
4âWork and Socialist Realism
1âSocial Value of Work. Preferable Modes and Desirable End-States
2âWorking People and the Role of Art in Socialism
5âImage and Elements of Film Language
1âImage Concept and Cinematic Structure
2âFilmic Narrative: A What and a Way
6âSociological Approaches to Film
1âThinking the Film: Crystallised Images of the Real
2âSociology and Film. A Historical Perspective
3âFilm as Economic Production
4âFilm as Social Institution
5âFilm as Cultural Industry
6âFilm and Representations of the Social
â6.1âSiegfried Kracauer and the Discovery of the Non-visible Realities
â6.2âMarc Ferro and Film as Witness: A Counter-Analysis of Society
â6.3âPierre Sorlin and the Filmic Construction
7âTheoretical Perspectives on Culture in Socialism
1âMarxist Foundations of Culture in Socialism. The Dominant Ideology
2âVladimir Ilici Lenin and the Theory of Reflection
3âAntonio Gramsci and the Hegemonic Ideology
4âLouis Althusser and the Theory of Interpellation
8âIdeology, Art, and Culture in Socialism
1âSocialist Realism: From Cultural Doctrine to Political Strategy
2âSocialist Realism in România. Elements of Sociopolitical Context
3âDirections for Action in Film-Making Work
4âUnfortunate Events and Social Consciousness. Mangalia Theses (August 1983)
9âActuality Film as a Matter of Realism
1âHere, Now, and the Future: Filmmakers as Historians
2âThe Political Nature of Actuality Film
10âFilm Culture and Its Economy
1âThe Institution of Film in Post-war Romania. Elements of Film Repertoire
2âFilm Economy under the Spectrum of Profitability
11âCinematic Representations of Work
1âPhysical Frames of Work
2âApparent Indolents and Working Leaders: The Cinematic Division of Work
â2.1âImages of Workers and Engineers: Producers of Means of Productions
â2.2âMain Characters and Gender Configurations
3âWork Attitudes and Evaluations. Two Ideological Hypostases of Work
4âWorking Subject and City Dweller between Hero and Marginal
5âWork and Social Space. An Ideological Pattern of Job Distribution
12âDomination, Hegemony, and Interpellation. Film and the Impossibility of Getting Out of Ideology
1âFilm and Ideology: Two Constructions
â1.1âCave (Illusion): A Projection on Work and the City. The Mental Image of Work in the Context of the Visual Image of the City
â1.2âThe Ideological State Apparatus and the Counter-Analysis of Socialist Education: Work and the Process of Socialization in a Ciné-Verité Style
13âEvaluative Structures of Work in Seven Romanian Films
1âDimineÈile unui bÄiat cuminte/The Mornings of a Good Boy (Andrei Blaier, 1967)
â1.1âWorkers and Intellectuals. Meanings and Significances of Ideological Constructions
â1.2âDiscourse on (Social) Other
2âFilip cel bun/Filip the Kind (Dan PiÈa, 1975)
â2.1âHousing, Administrative Bureaucracy, and Social Inequality
3âIarba verde de acasÄ/The Green Grass of Home (Stere Gulea, 1977)
4âProbÄ de microfon/Microphone Test (Mircea Daneliuc, 1980)
â4.1âLooking for a Job
â4.2âFigures of Work and Themes of Urban Centrality
â4.3âElements of the Social Condition of the Marginal
5âLa capÄtul liniei/At the End of the Line (Dinu TÄnase, 1983)
6âFaleze de nisip/Sand Cliffs (Dan PiÈa, 1983)
â6.1ââYoung Treesâ and the âForest Rotâ
â6.2âThe Kid â A Young Worker at the Black Sea
â6.3âA Counter-Analysis of the Official Critique of the Film
â6.4âOne Film. Multiple Discourses
7âImposibila iubire/Impossible Love (Constantin Vaeni, 1984)
14âConclusions/Open Ending
References
Index
List of Illustrations
List of Films and Directors
Introduction
1âWork, Modernity, and Film
1âFrom Furniture on Fire to Image Reversibility
2âImages of Work and Social Contexts that Produce Images of Work
2âFilm as Instrument of the Sociological Imagination
1âFilm towards a Quality of the Mind
2âThe Dramatized Construction of Reality
3âStructural Components of Film Mechanism
3âWork and Ideology
1âWork: Etymological Roots, Semantic Structures, and Ideological Meanings
2âWork at Marx. Historical Concept and Practical Reality
3âWorking People and Social Class(es)
4âWorkers, Social Class, and âSocialistâ Urbanization
5âElements of Urbanization in Romania
6âElements of Work System
4âWork and Socialist Realism
1âSocial Value of Work. Preferable Modes and Desirable End-States
2âWorking People and the Role of Art in Socialism
5âImage and Elements of Film Language
1âImage Concept and Cinematic Structure
2âFilmic Narrative: A What and a Way
6âSociological Approaches to Film
1âThinking the Film: Crystallised Images of the Real
2âSociology and Film. A Historical Perspective
3âFilm as Economic Production
4âFilm as Social Institution
5âFilm as Cultural Industry
6âFilm and Representations of the Social
â6.1âSiegfried Kracauer and the Discovery of the Non-visible Realities
â6.2âMarc Ferro and Film as Witness: A Counter-Analysis of Society
â6.3âPierre Sorlin and the Filmic Construction
7âTheoretical Perspectives on Culture in Socialism
1âMarxist Foundations of Culture in Socialism. The Dominant Ideology
2âVladimir Ilici Lenin and the Theory of Reflection
3âAntonio Gramsci and the Hegemonic Ideology
4âLouis Althusser and the Theory of Interpellation
8âIdeology, Art, and Culture in Socialism
1âSocialist Realism: From Cultural Doctrine to Political Strategy
2âSocialist Realism in România. Elements of Sociopolitical Context
3âDirections for Action in Film-Making Work
4âUnfortunate Events and Social Consciousness. Mangalia Theses (August 1983)
9âActuality Film as a Matter of Realism
1âHere, Now, and the Future: Filmmakers as Historians
2âThe Political Nature of Actuality Film
10âFilm Culture and Its Economy
1âThe Institution of Film in Post-war Romania. Elements of Film Repertoire
2âFilm Economy under the Spectrum of Profitability
11âCinematic Representations of Work
1âPhysical Frames of Work
2âApparent Indolents and Working Leaders: The Cinematic Division of Work
â2.1âImages of Workers and Engineers: Producers of Means of Productions
â2.2âMain Characters and Gender Configurations
3âWork Attitudes and Evaluations. Two Ideological Hypostases of Work
4âWorking Subject and City Dweller between Hero and Marginal
5âWork and Social Space. An Ideological Pattern of Job Distribution
12âDomination, Hegemony, and Interpellation. Film and the Impossibility of Getting Out of Ideology
1âFilm and Ideology: Two Constructions
â1.1âCave (Illusion): A Projection on Work and the City. The Mental Image of Work in the Context of the Visual Image of the City
â1.2âThe Ideological State Apparatus and the Counter-Analysis of Socialist Education: Work and the Process of Socialization in a Ciné-Verité Style
13âEvaluative Structures of Work in Seven Romanian Films
1âDimineÈile unui bÄiat cuminte/The Mornings of a Good Boy (Andrei Blaier, 1967)
â1.1âWorkers and Intellectuals. Meanings and Significances of Ideological Constructions
â1.2âDiscourse on (Social) Other
2âFilip cel bun/Filip the Kind (Dan PiÈa, 1975)
â2.1âHousing, Administrative Bureaucracy, and Social Inequality
3âIarba verde de acasÄ/The Green Grass of Home (Stere Gulea, 1977)
4âProbÄ de microfon/Microphone Test (Mircea Daneliuc, 1980)
â4.1âLooking for a Job
â4.2âFigures of Work and Themes of Urban Centrality
â4.3âElements of the Social Condition of the Marginal
5âLa capÄtul liniei/At the End of the Line (Dinu TÄnase, 1983)
6âFaleze de nisip/Sand Cliffs (Dan PiÈa, 1983)
â6.1ââYoung Treesâ and the âForest Rotâ
â6.2âThe Kid â A Young Worker at the Black Sea
â6.3âA Counter-Analysis of the Official Critique of the Film
â6.4âOne Film. Multiple Discourses
7âImposibila iubire/Impossible Love (Constantin Vaeni, 1984)
14âConclusions/Open Ending
References
Index
The book addresses academic scholars in the social sciences, visual practitioners and researchers, post-graduate students, and filmmakers. Subject areas include socialist cinema, visual/film sociology, sociology of work, urban sociology, political ideologies, and visual research methods.