The disappearance of an urban breed: Bucharest cinemas
The disappearance of an urban breed: Bucharest cinemas

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the evolution of cinemas in Bucharest in order to understand the shrinking process that has been happening since 1989 to present day. The cinema is addressed as a place, as a deeply social urban space, taking into consideration its other connotations nonetheless, like the cinema as a refuge, as art or as entertainment. Therefore,the first part includes a brief history of cinema in Bucharest since the occurrence of cinema in Romanian territories, to present: emergence, expansion (interwar vs. communism) and decline (the fading of the cinema from within the city and moving in the malls). The second part of the text, the theoretical approach, lists and explains the potential advantages of classic cinema as part of the urban fabric, either centrally, peripherally or pericentrally located. Eventually, the third part encompasses a personal perspective on the extinction phenomenon of classic cinema, along with a proposal for future development.

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