Notes on Romanian Interwar Cinema

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Cinema was, in interwar Romania, one of the most relevant agents of cultural modernization. It became an important subject of discussion not only in the artistic and literary milieus of the era but also in the writings of Romanian modernism’s founding promoter – poet and journalist Tudor Arghezi. The present investigation maps some of Arghezi’s most penetrating writings about cinema in his time.