Strategies to Avoid Imposed Themes in the Romanian Drama And Film under Communism
Strategies to Avoid Imposed Themes in the Romanian Drama And Film under Communism

Summary/Abstract: Through mimetic strategies, the Romanian theater under communism has built an imaginary of allusive space, desecrated by ritualistic demythisation, but with the permanent sacred nostalgia of freedom. In the ideological winter of the millenarian utopias, the total disambiguation of activist tone was yelled everywhere, the denotive expression being a basic rule in propagating the message. Harmful to the “Marxist education” or to the mental reconstruction of the “new man”, protagonist in an egalitarian simulation, the Gnostic bookish temptation was an offense brought to the socialist society and to the evil banality in propagandistic conventionalism. The “damnable Aesopic language!”, Stalin inveighed against the “ambiguity” of the imaginary and the double significant, the one that alienated people from Marxism. “Orientation mistakes” were firmly punished, what had not been done ... Hence the passion, the excitement and the joy of public reception of the dictatorship persiflage, through theater and burlesque cinema. A metatext significance, the religion survived within the soul, silently, with ferocious premonitions. And its access mystical gate was literature, and in scenic or filmic representation: the dramaturgy.

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