ABSTRACT

Although some significant contributions to early filmmaking production and exhibition involve strong entrepreneurial female figures, very few women’s names appear in the histories of Balkan cinemas. Based on original archival research and press of the time, this article foregrounds the filmmaking activities of the Romanian theatre director and actress Marioara Voiculescu (1885–1976) and the role of her star persona and theatrical experience in the making of early fiction films produced by Leon M. Popescu’s Filmul de Artă company. Voiculescu achieved considerable success during her lifetime, a prolific stage career, founding her own theatre company in 1912, and playing a key role in the production of early films in 1913, yet she has received scant attention in film scholarship thus far. By shifting the focus to Voiculescu’s contribution to early cinema in Romania, I reflect more broadly on the spaces and roles that women occupied in popular culture within the ongoing process of modernisation of Romanian society.

摘要

尽管对早期电影制作和展览的一些重大贡献涉及强大的企业家女性形象，但很少有女性的名字出现在巴尔干电影院的历史上。基于原始档案研究和当时的新闻，本文重点介绍了罗马尼亚戏剧导演和女演员马里奥拉·沃伊库列斯库（Marioara Voiculescu，1885-1976 年）的电影制作活动，以及她的明星角色和戏剧经验在制作早期小说电影中的作用Leon M. Popescu 的 Filmul de Artă 公司。Voiculescu 在她的一生中取得了相当大的成功，她在多产的舞台生涯中取得了相当大的成功，她于 1912 年创立了自己的剧院公司，并在 1913 年在早期电影的制作中发挥了关键作用，但迄今为止，她在电影学界很少受到关注。