| Title: | Social, cultural and identitary borders: Romanian emigration and its cinematic representations |
| Authors: | Gabriela Iuliana Colipcă-Ciobanu, Ioana Mohor-Ivan |
| Publication: | The Proceedings of the International Conference Globalization, Intercultural Dialogue and National Identity. Section: Language and Discourse, 1, p. 701-710 |
| ISBN: | 978-606-93691-3-5 |
| Editors: | Iulian Boldea |
| Publisher: | Arhipelag XXI Press |
| Place: | Tîrgu-Mureş |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Abstract: | The paper focuses on representations of emigration as a consequence of the transition from communism to capitalism in post-1989 Romania and examines the strategies through which several feature and documentary films construct images of ‘Home’ and the ‘West’ in an attempt to emphasise identity assertion and re-construction against the background of intersecting economic, social, and political frames in transformation. The corpus includes two sets of films: on the one hand, Romanian filmic productions – Asfalt Tango (1996), Occident (2002) and Italiencele (2004) – focus, from the perspective of the sending society, on the re-negotiation of Romanian migrants’ identity as determined by the exclusion/inclusion dynamic that marks their relationships with the home and host societal frameworks; on the other hand, the British documentary trilogy The Last Peasants (2003) – Journeys, Temptation, A Good Wife – foregrounds the endeavours of filmmakers in the receiving societies to arouse public awareness of the complexity of migration as a social and cultural phenomenon and to urge especially the Western audiences to change their attitude towards the migrant Other. The exploration of the selected filmic texts aims at retracing identity-shaping differences considering both West/East and masculine/feminine clashes. The representations of the latter, in particular, are revealed to abide by traditional encodings of masculinity and femininity, as, in most of the cases, Romanian women migrants are shown as still subject to both the domination of the ‘Mighty West’ and the male domination of patriarchy. |
| Key words: | film, emigration, identity, West/East, masculinity/femininity |
| Language: | English |
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