http://digital-library.ulbsibiu.ro:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/3864 Grant agreement ID: 101079282 - Achieving excellence in research in Romania The FORTHEM Alliance of seven European Universities invited Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (LBUS - CO) to join in 2021 2026-05-14T03:37:32Z http://digital-library.ulbsibiu.ro:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4446 Explaining unwelcoming attitudes toward LGBTQI + festivals in Sibiu and their implications for regional cultural change Vlase, Ionela; Croitoru, Alin This article examines the predictors of the unwelcoming attitude toward staging LGBTQI+ festivals in Sibiu, Romania. Building on recent insights on festivals as socially sustainable devices contributing to tourism and cultural changes and based on an original survey dataset, we use logistic regression to account for this negative view. Our findings indicate that gender, education, and religiosity are associated with the outcome variable. Men, respondents with up to lower secondary education, and people who self-identify as religious are more inclined to oppose LGBTQI + festivals, whereas festivalgoers and respondents who have a positive attitude toward Roma festivals are less likely to hold negative views on LGBTQI+ festivals. Likewise, beliefs that the state shall regulate the cultural realm and that tourists contribute to a positive image of Sibiu are positively associated with the unwelcoming attitude toward LGBTQI+ festivals. These findings have policy implications for framing cultural changes in central Romania. IIonela Vlase & Alin Croitoru (2026) Explaining unwelcoming attitudes toward LGBTQI+ festivals in Sibiu and their implications for regional cultural change, Cultural Trends, 35:1, 19-34, DOI: 10.1080/09548963.2025.2458265 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://digital-library.ulbsibiu.ro:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4444 The Ethical and Legal Stakes in Staging the Works of Bernard-Marie Koltès Nechit, Diana; Parisot, Véronique Bernard-Marie Koltès occupies a singular place in contemporary theatre: at once poetic and political, his work interrogates the human condition through questions of space, language, and otherness. Every staging of his texts draws the director into a delicate dialogue with the absent author: how to represent without betraying? How to adapt without distorting? This article examines the ethical and legal issues that surround the staging of Koltès, through the analysis of several emblematic cases (Chéreau, Touré, Bident) and by articulating notions of moral rights, artistic fidelity, and poetic responsibility. It aims to explore the fragile balance between memory and invention, between the letter of the text and the living pulse of the stage. Nechit, Diana and Parisot, Véronique. “The Ethical and Legal Stakes in Staging the Works of Bernard-Marie Koltès”, Journal of Performing Arts , no. 3 (2025): 14-41. DOI: 10.54989/JAS.24.01 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://digital-library.ulbsibiu.ro:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4443 From Folklore to Fairy Tale Fantasy Within the Disneyfication of Cinema. The Case of Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen Serban, Andrei C.; Ostad, Samaneh This article examines the Disneyfication of classic European fairy tales, focusing on how The Walt Disney Company has transformed the moral and aesthetic fabric of stories by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. Through its adaptations of Snow White , Cinderella , The Little Mermaid , and The Snow Queen , Disney conceals the moral violence and existential suffering that characterized the original narratives, replacing them with sentimental optimism and a commodified “age of innocence”. The resulting films reframe tales of sin, punishment, and redemption into narratives of personal fulfilment and emotional reassurance. Therefore, beneath this surface of purity, Disney tends to over-aestheticize some taboo themes—death, desire, and transgression—, until altering the literary pattern. Șerban, Andrei C., and Ostad, Samaneh. “From Folklore to Fairy Tale Fantasy within the Disneyfication of Cinema. The Case of Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen”, Journal of Performing Arts , no. 3 (2025): 60-77. DOI: 10.54989/JAS.24.03 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://digital-library.ulbsibiu.ro:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4441 Artificial Aesthetics Rethinking Authorship, Aesthetics, and Affect in AI - Generated Cinema Ostad, Samaneh; Serban, Andrei C. This article explores how artificial intelligence is changing the work of filmmakers and the way we understand authorship in today’s cinema. It looks closely at three short films made entirely with AI tools: The Frost (Waymark, 2024), Thank You for Not Answering (Paul Trillo, 2023), and Poof (Pizza Later, 2024). Rather than treating creativity as the expression of a single author, these films show it as something that takes shape between human decisions, machine outputs, and the viewer’s interpretation. Using ideas from Barthes, Foucault, Manovich, Zylinska, and Arielli, the article argues that the filmmaker’s role shifts from controlling images to working with what the system generates and making sense of it. Visually, these films reveal a kind of aesthetic that comes from the technology itself; glitches, unstable textures, and partial forms that reflect the way AI “sees” and constructs the image. The emotional impact also works differently: instead of being predetermined by the filmmaker, it emerges through the viewer’s response to the uncertainty and strangeness of the images. Ethically, the films raise questions about responsibility and transparency, reminding us that any creative work involving AI depends on the data, tools, and systems that make it possible. Taken together, these films suggest that AI does not necessarily push human creativity aside. Instead, it expands the space where meaning can be produced, creating a kind of shared authorship in which humans and machines both play a part. The article uses the term “relational authorship” to describe this shift and argues that it offers a useful way to understand how aesthetics, emotion, and ethics come together in AI-generated cinema. Ostad, Samaneh and Șerban, Andrei C. “Artificial Aesthetics: Rethinking Authorship, Aesthetics, and Affect in AI-Generated Cinema”, Journal of Performing Arts , no. 3 (2025): 78-99. DOI: 10.54989/JAS.24.04 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z