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The Haunting Ghost and the Invisible Hand: Film Industry and Book Publishing Between State-Socialism and Market-oriented Cultural Production
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Abstract This article introduces the topic of the transformation of the cultural industries in several former East European communist countries. In the first part it delivers a critical overview of the essential contributions to research in the field and outlines the historical and methodological context in ... view more
This article introduces the topic of the transformation of the cultural industries in several former East European communist countries. In the first part it delivers a critical overview of the essential contributions to research in the field and outlines the historical and methodological context in relation to which the four articles in this special-themed issue have taken convergent or polemical stances. The second part offers a descriptive-correlative reading of the articles signed by Jan Hanzlík, Radu Toderici, Balász Varga, and Adriana Stan and Cosmin Borza, focusing on how they investigate the postsocialist transformations of several East European film industries and of the Romanian book industry. The answers that the four case studies try to provide to this wide phenomenon combine (1) an analytical approach to the ideological discourses that have formed the basis of the political agendas specific to the cultural field, and (2) an examination, from a cultural studies perspective, of the mechanisms of reforming the public institutions responsible for financing cultural production in Eastern Europe. The first component engages in a hermeneutic of debates (media, cultural, political) that have built a postsocialist imaginary predicated on synchronization with the socio-economic values of the West. The second part contains elements of political economy and explores, on the one hand, legislative changes in the public financing realm, and on the other hand, the way in which the capitalist reconfiguration of cultural institutions, privatizations, and the myth of the free market have created an impact on the production, promotion and distribution of films and books.... view less
Keywords
Eastern Europe; film production; Europeanization; transnational relations; anti-communism; neoliberalism; elite; culture industry; transformation; post-socialist country; cultural policy
Classification
Special areas of Departmental Policy
Free Keywords
East European film and book publishing industry; Europeanisation; transnationalism; anticommunism; capitalist transition; neoliberal policies; cultural elites
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 353-363
Journal
Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, 20 (2020) 3
Issue topic
Institutional Reforms of post 1989 Eastern European Cultural Production
ISSN
1582-4551
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 1.0