Constantin Parvulescu
Biographic Data
| ID | 5713359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Constantin Parvulescu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Constantin |
| FAMILY NAME | Parvulescu |
| SIGNATURE | PARVULESCU C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Babeș-Bolyai University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1577-7202 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Romanian Capitalism on Film
Discusses how Romanian cinema represents the development of post-1989 Romanian economy and society Delivers in-depth analyses of masterpieces of the New Romanian Cinema Exploits of the historical testimony of contemporary film Considers close to 100 contemporary Romanian films Proposes a different angle for understanding the rise of postsocialist capitalism Romanian Capitalism on Film examines quality contemporary Romanian cinema as a testimony t…
Narrating entertainment streaming in Europe
The Introduction addresses critical issues surrounding digital film and television circulation in Europe and the obstacles encountered by European streaming platforms. It explores the central arguments presented in the Special Issue’s contributions and examines methodological concerns, including ideological influences on research agendas and the difficulties associated with quantitative research. Additionally, the Introduction underscores the piv…
Beyond postsocialist and small
Our study provides a comparison of recent Czech and Romanian production practices and state funding policies for film production, as well as, more broadly, of two film cultures that are less similar than research in the field has often assumed. The study presents the particularities of each national industry and shows how production practices and funding schemes influence each other. It also advances an idea to better understand the functioning o…
Romanian Film for the World
The article analyzes the catalog, acts of curation, and promotional materials of the Romanian-based vod platform Cinepub ( www.cinepub.ro ). It also draws evidence from an interview conducted with the founder and manager of the platform, Lucian Georgescu. The analysis reveals the embedding of the service in the Romanian cinema culture, as well as in a global digital periphery. Some of the aspects that make Cinepub’s service stand out, the article…
Bottom-up Content Convergence Phenomena in Socialist Cultural Economies
Our article focuses on an instance of cross-media content convergence in state-socialist cultural economies. We deliver a cultural studies intervention addressing the hybrid nature of the cultural economies of the former Soviet Bloc. We show that this instance of convergence was not the effect of a top-down imposition of a policy of state-socialist power, but rather a bottom-up phenomenon, triggered by artistic and economic interests and more spe…
The Political and Economic Intervention of Non-Fiction Money Literacy Film in the Post-2008 Era
L’auteur livre la première analyse critique des illustrations contemporaines de la notion d’argent dans le cinéma documentaire et en indique l’argumentaire prédominant. L’analyse porte sur des films de littératie financière comme The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Adrian Pennick, 2009), Money and Life (Katie Teague, 2013), Money Puzzles (Michael Chanan, 2016) et Blockchain City (Ian Kahn, 2018). Elle révèle la réflexion politi…
Afterlives of Romanian socialist-era historical film
This article examines present-day reruns of Romanian socialist-era historical films, their programming, the publicity related to their programming, and their reception. It argues that, unintentionally, reruns act as an instrument of historical revisionism. It shows that the cinematic administration of the distant national past is still carried out by socialist-era films and explains the causes of this predicament and its cultural effects. It refl…
World Cinema, vod Platforms and the Western Demand
The article explores the concept of world cinema as an other to global cinema from a marketing perspective. Special attention is given to the way the world cinema universe is presented on video-on-demand platforms in Western markets. To demonstrate that the stories, scope and concerns of this universe vary according to marketing objectives, the article compares presentations on three platforms with contrasting business models and marketing algori…
Narratives of Cruel
Celem poniższego artykułu jest przedstawienie sposobu opisu stanu pomniejszych kultur Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej w filmach Cristiana Mungiu. Rozważania te zostały oparte o pojęcia okrutnego optymizmu oraz impasu autorstwa Lauren Berlant. Analizie poddano filmy 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), Beyond the Hills (2012) oraz Graduation (2016). Pod uwagę wzięto w szczególności strukturę narracyjną wspomnianych dzieł, płeć bohaterów, uwarunkowania …
A Companion to the Historical Film
"Broad in scope, this interdisciplinary collection of original scholarship on historical film features essays that explore the many facets of this expanding field and provide a platform for promising avenues of research. Offers a unique collection of cutting edge research that questions the intention behind and influence of historical film. Essays range in scope from inclusive broad-ranging subjects such as political contexts, to focused assessme…
Embodied histories. Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică's Videograms of a Revolution and Ovidiu Bose Pas ̧tina's Timi s ̧ oara—December 1989 and the uses of the independent camera
This article analyzes the most insightful documentaries about the 1989 Romanian revolution, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică's Videograms of a Revolution (Germany, 1993) and Ovidiu Bose Paştina's Timişoara—December 1989 (Romania, 1991). Though different in style and intellectual project, both films engage in a complex dialogue with recordings of the 1989 events taken by amateur cameramen and the national state television. The purpose of the study i…
Hollywood Peeks
In socialist Romania of the mid-1980s, workers’ clubs, theaters, student centers, opera houses, and even philharmonics used the new medium of the videocassette to organize film-viewing venues exhibiting pirated cinematic material. They were called videotheques and sold tens of thousands of admission tickets to an audience hungry for Western commercial films. This article studies the development of this quasi-legal and hybrid economic experiment. …
Inside the Beast's Cage
With Gianni Amelio's Lamerica, we investigate the identity crisis of cinema engagè in post-1989 Europe. We reflect on issues of cinematic realism, on the relationship between film and other audiovisual media, and on the condition of the migrant Eastern European worker. We inquire about cinema's progressive potential, about its power to represent the underrepresented, and we link these issues of cinematic representation to broader challenges facin…
Betrayed Promises
Eastern Europe has been a terrain on which the twentieth century has challengingly experimented with revolutionary discourse, and cinema has been there to document these experiments. This article focuses on a constellation of Eastern European films from the 1960s and the early 1970s that interrogate sexual practices in “real-existing socialism”: Márta Mészáros's Riddance, Miloš Forman's Loves of a Blonde, and Dušan Makavejev's Love Affair, or The…
Afterlives of Romanian socialist-era historical film
This article examines present-day reruns of Romanian socialist-era historical films, their programming, the publicity related to their programming, and their reception. It argues that, unintentionally, reruns act as an instrument of historical revisionism. It shows that the cinematic administration of the distant national past is still carried out by socialist-era films and explains the causes of this predicament and its cultural effects. It refl…
Embodied histories. Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică's Videograms of a Revolution and Ovidiu Bose Pas ̧tina's Timi s ̧ oara—December 1989 and the uses of the independent camera
This article analyzes the most insightful documentaries about the 1989 Romanian revolution, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică's Videograms of a Revolution (Germany, 1993) and Ovidiu Bose Paştina's Timişoara—December 1989 (Romania, 1991). Though different in style and intellectual project, both films engage in a complex dialogue with recordings of the 1989 events taken by amateur cameramen and the national state television. The purpose of the study i…
Hollywood Peeks
In socialist Romania of the mid-1980s, workers’ clubs, theaters, student centers, opera houses, and even philharmonics used the new medium of the videocassette to organize film-viewing venues exhibiting pirated cinematic material. They were called videotheques and sold tens of thousands of admission tickets to an audience hungry for Western commercial films. This article studies the development of this quasi-legal and hybrid economic experiment. …
Inside the Beast's Cage
With Gianni Amelio's Lamerica, we investigate the identity crisis of cinema engagè in post-1989 Europe. We reflect on issues of cinematic realism, on the relationship between film and other audiovisual media, and on the condition of the migrant Eastern European worker. We inquire about cinema's progressive potential, about its power to represent the underrepresented, and we link these issues of cinematic representation to broader challenges facin…
Betrayed Promises
Eastern Europe has been a terrain on which the twentieth century has challengingly experimented with revolutionary discourse, and cinema has been there to document these experiments. This article focuses on a constellation of Eastern European films from the 1960s and the early 1970s that interrogate sexual practices in “real-existing socialism”: Márta Mészáros's Riddance, Miloš Forman's Loves of a Blonde, and Dušan Makavejev's Love Affair, or The…
Inside the Beast's Cage
With Gianni Amelio's Lamerica, we investigate the identity crisis of cinema engagè in post-1989 Europe. We reflect on issues of cinematic realism, on the relationship between film and other audiovisual media, and on the condition of the migrant Eastern European worker. We inquire about cinema's progressive potential, about its power to represent the underrepresented, and we link these issues of cinematic representation to broader challenges facin…
Hollywood Peeks
In socialist Romania of the mid-1980s, workers’ clubs, theaters, student centers, opera houses, and even philharmonics used the new medium of the videocassette to organize film-viewing venues exhibiting pirated cinematic material. They were called videotheques and sold tens of thousands of admission tickets to an audience hungry for Western commercial films. This article studies the development of this quasi-legal and hybrid economic experiment. …
A Companion to the Historical Film
"Broad in scope, this interdisciplinary collection of original scholarship on historical film features essays that explore the many facets of this expanding field and provide a platform for promising avenues of research. Offers a unique collection of cutting edge research that questions the intention behind and influence of historical film. Essays range in scope from inclusive broad-ranging subjects such as political contexts, to focused assessme…
Embodied histories. Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică's Videograms of a Revolution and Ovidiu Bose Pas ̧tina's Timi s ̧ oara—December 1989 and the uses of the independent camera
This article analyzes the most insightful documentaries about the 1989 Romanian revolution, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică's Videograms of a Revolution (Germany, 1993) and Ovidiu Bose Paştina's Timişoara—December 1989 (Romania, 1991). Though different in style and intellectual project, both films engage in a complex dialogue with recordings of the 1989 events taken by amateur cameramen and the national state television. The purpose of the study i…
World Cinema, vod Platforms and the Western Demand
The article explores the concept of world cinema as an other to global cinema from a marketing perspective. Special attention is given to the way the world cinema universe is presented on video-on-demand platforms in Western markets. To demonstrate that the stories, scope and concerns of this universe vary according to marketing objectives, the article compares presentations on three platforms with contrasting business models and marketing algori…
Narratives of Cruel
Celem poniższego artykułu jest przedstawienie sposobu opisu stanu pomniejszych kultur Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej w filmach Cristiana Mungiu. Rozważania te zostały oparte o pojęcia okrutnego optymizmu oraz impasu autorstwa Lauren Berlant. Analizie poddano filmy 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), Beyond the Hills (2012) oraz Graduation (2016). Pod uwagę wzięto w szczególności strukturę narracyjną wspomnianych dzieł, płeć bohaterów, uwarunkowania …
The Political and Economic Intervention of Non-Fiction Money Literacy Film in the Post-2008 Era
L’auteur livre la première analyse critique des illustrations contemporaines de la notion d’argent dans le cinéma documentaire et en indique l’argumentaire prédominant. L’analyse porte sur des films de littératie financière comme The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Adrian Pennick, 2009), Money and Life (Katie Teague, 2013), Money Puzzles (Michael Chanan, 2016) et Blockchain City (Ian Kahn, 2018). Elle révèle la réflexion politi…
Afterlives of Romanian socialist-era historical film
This article examines present-day reruns of Romanian socialist-era historical films, their programming, the publicity related to their programming, and their reception. It argues that, unintentionally, reruns act as an instrument of historical revisionism. It shows that the cinematic administration of the distant national past is still carried out by socialist-era films and explains the causes of this predicament and its cultural effects. It refl…
Beyond postsocialist and small
Our study provides a comparison of recent Czech and Romanian production practices and state funding policies for film production, as well as, more broadly, of two film cultures that are less similar than research in the field has often assumed. The study presents the particularities of each national industry and shows how production practices and funding schemes influence each other. It also advances an idea to better understand the functioning o…
Romanian Film for the World
The article analyzes the catalog, acts of curation, and promotional materials of the Romanian-based vod platform Cinepub ( www.cinepub.ro ). It also draws evidence from an interview conducted with the founder and manager of the platform, Lucian Georgescu. The analysis reveals the embedding of the service in the Romanian cinema culture, as well as in a global digital periphery. Some of the aspects that make Cinepub’s service stand out, the article…
Bottom-up Content Convergence Phenomena in Socialist Cultural Economies
Our article focuses on an instance of cross-media content convergence in state-socialist cultural economies. We deliver a cultural studies intervention addressing the hybrid nature of the cultural economies of the former Soviet Bloc. We show that this instance of convergence was not the effect of a top-down imposition of a policy of state-socialist power, but rather a bottom-up phenomenon, triggered by artistic and economic interests and more spe…
Narrating entertainment streaming in Europe
The Introduction addresses critical issues surrounding digital film and television circulation in Europe and the obstacles encountered by European streaming platforms. It explores the central arguments presented in the Special Issue’s contributions and examines methodological concerns, including ideological influences on research agendas and the difficulties associated with quantitative research. Additionally, the Introduction underscores the piv…
Romanian Capitalism on Film
Discusses how Romanian cinema represents the development of post-1989 Romanian economy and society Delivers in-depth analyses of masterpieces of the New Romanian Cinema Exploits of the historical testimony of contemporary film Considers close to 100 contemporary Romanian films Proposes a different angle for understanding the rise of postsocialist capitalism Romanian Capitalism on Film examines quality contemporary Romanian cinema as a testimony t…
Art (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Movie theater (6 works) · Romanian (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works)