Elena R Popan

Texas Tech University, Fine Arts, Graduate Student

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KU Leuven

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University of Edinburgh

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Yale University

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University of Ulster

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Concordia University (Canada)

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Università di Bologna

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Kansas State University

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The Open University

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UNL - New University of Lisbon

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Recent Romanian Cinema: Is It a Real New Wave or Just a Splash in the Water?

The Communication Review, 2014

This article demonstrates that recent Romanian cinema manifests the features of a new, coherent, ... more This article demonstrates that recent Romanian cinema manifests the features of a new, coherent, and strong film movement that was correctly tagged as a late new wave in the context of postcommunist significant changes that have shaped the Romanian society and its artistic milieu over the past two decades. By discussing the general characteristics of new waves and the legacies of the most influential cinematic movements of the 20th century, several common features are highlighted, as is the Romanian directors’ capacity to integrate and restate these influences through innovative techniques and an original approach to reality. The analysis is exemplified through the exploration of some of the most representative films of the recent Romanian cinema, prizewinners at prestigious international film festivals.

Suckling Pig or Potatoes?

(In)digestion in Literature and Film, 2020

After Aquarius Dawned: How the Revolutions of the Sixties Became the Popular Culture of the Seventies by Judy Kutulas

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Building New Platforms for Civil Society: the Right to Image in Syrian Abounaddara Collective’s Cinema of Emergency

SPECTRA: the Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Theory Archives, 2016

In the past five years, the Syrian conflict became “the most socially mediated civil conflict in ... more In the past five years, the Syrian conflict became “the most socially mediated civil conflict in history” i, bringing into spotlight controversial debates that involve freedom of expression, freedom of information, and the urgency to create a balance between them. In this context, Syrian Abounaddara Collective, a group of self-taught filmmakers based in Damascus, launched the concept of emergency cinema. Starting with April 2011, Abounaddara uploaded every week a film on Facebook, Twitter, and on Vimeo, aiming to represent Syrians in a just and dignified way and offering an alternate narrative to those of Assad’s regime and (inter)national media. The project is very accessible since the Collective is a promoter of the power of “smaller screens” like computers and smartphones, with all films being subtitled from the original Arabic to French and English. Their works combines visual culture and film with philosophy, history, science, sociology etc. inviting critics to provide in-depth...

The good, the bad, and the Gypsy : constant positive representation and use of reversed negative stereotypes as ‘sympathy triggers’ in Gypsy cinema

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Recent Romanian Cinema: Is It a Real New Wave or Just a Splash in the Water?

The Communication Review, 2014

Suckling Pig or Potatoes?

(In)digestion in Literature and Film, 2020

After Aquarius Dawned: How the Revolutions of the Sixties Became the Popular Culture of the Seventies by Judy Kutulas

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Building New Platforms for Civil Society: the Right to Image in Syrian Abounaddara Collective’s Cinema of Emergency

SPECTRA: the Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Theory Archives, 2016

The good, the bad, and the Gypsy : constant positive representation and use of reversed negative stereotypes as ‘sympathy triggers’ in Gypsy cinema

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