CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Grama, Adrian |
|---|---|
| Title | Entertaining a "National Audience": A Film and Its Makers in Romania before the First World War |
| Summary | In my thesis I seek to understand how culture is passed on intragenerationally. My first contention is that to study how this process of reproduction works amounts to examining the various social contexts in which individuals experience, at a daily level, their national culture. However, an already gargantuan scholarship dealing with these issues exists: it is focused on the school system and its textbooks, on the army and its rituals, on public ceremonies and their overall function, on intellectuals and their cerebral activity etc. As a result, my second contention is that new “spheres of transmission” ought to be welcomed as objects of study. My third contention is that the market, with its circulation of commodities, offers such a case. Therefore, in this paper I try to illustrate how a national culture is reproduced (i.e. lived or experienced) in the process of making, selling and buying a movie. |
| Supervisor | Iordachi, Constantin; Kovacs, Andras |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/grama_adrian.pdf |
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