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Le cinéma roumain pendant la période communiste : représentations de l'histoire nationale

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The subject of this PhD dissertation is the historical reconstructions films produced in Romania under communist rule and more precisely between 1960 and 1989. It analyses the social and cultural significance of the representation of national past but also the social and political aspects involved in the production process. In order to understand these research objectives our approach we stress first various logics which chairing the state action towards the culture and in particular towards the cinematography. We intend to analyze the economic, political and ideological conditions of the film production, the directives concerning the general thematic and the orientation that the party tries to induce to the cinema. To complete the picture of social relationships, this study tries to emphasize the stand taken by the creators and the bureaucrats towards different policies, the resistances, the liking, the collaborations. Second, this study envisages the restoration of the sociocultural processes that gave birth to the historic movies. We try to understand the internal conception process of every work, the social dynamics, the ideological positions of the party, the artists, the bureaucrats or the historians and the decision-making mechanisms. We try to correlate the vision of the creators with the position of the historians and the party through a targeted focus at the various levels of film writing as well as at the operations of subterranean negotiations in order to defend a vision or another. Finally, the third level of analysis, is interested in the deciphering of the movie as a complex artistic product combining three forms of expression (image, language and sound) aiming at reveal the political and cultural meanings of past reconstruction. We study the film representations of the historic myths, their evolution from the 1960 to 1980s and the specific contribution of the cinema in their reproduction.