Television as a Factory of History: The Broadcast of the 1989 Romanian Revolution

  • László Strausz
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Abstract

In order to show that the concept of hesitation can connect various screen media texts, the author branches out in this chapter to the television broadcasts of the 1989 Romanian revolution. While serving a specific political goal, the hesitant televisual images covering the collapse of the regime employed a rhetoric which shows historical connections with the mobile subject positions that characterize the previously discussed feature films produced during the Ceaușescu era. The author positions the official and amateur recordings of the events as images that had a legitimizing function for the incoming power formation.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • László Strausz
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  1. 1.Eötvös Loránd UniversityBudapestHungary

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