Hollywood Peeks
The Rise and Fall of Videotheques in 1980s Romania
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12149486 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Constantin Parvulescu (0000-0003-1577-7202, West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania, corresponding author), Emanuel Copilaş (0000-0002-9026-9243, West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 241-259 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | East European Politics and Societies and Cultures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0888-3254 • E-ISSN: 1533-8371 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0888325412467054 |
| OpenAlex | W2025172447 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
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. It describes its operation, analyzes its spectatorship, the alternative public spheres and patterns of resistance it produced, and the reaction of the Communist authorities, revealing the politically subversive dimension of entertainment consumption in socialist economies
Advertising · Art · Art history · Business · Communism · Consumption (sociology · Entertainment · Hollywood · Media studies · Opera · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |