Romanian Capitalism on Film
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Romanian Capitalism on Film

A new book authored by our colleagues Constantin Parvulescu and Claudiu Turcuș, and published by the prestigious Edinburg University Press.
Romanian Capitalism on Film. Microhistories of Hope, Anxiety and Adaptation (2025) examines quality contemporary Romanian cinema as a testimony to pivotal aspects of Romania’s post-socialist economy and culture, providing enlightening insights into an emerging capitalist culture. Approaching the cinematic text as an archive for cultural and economic history, the book  explores the economic imagination of emerging entrepreneurial classes, the value of human life within neoliberal contexts, the struggles of the middle and working classes during periods of radical economic and social transformation, the mental mapping of globalization from a European periphery, and emigration as a form of economic revenge.
The book constitutes the main result of the Exploratory Project SCREEN SOCIAL financed by UEFISCDI. This work also reflects BBU’s open-access policy, the online version of the book being available in this free of charge format on the publisher’s website: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-romanian-capitalism-on-film.html