Hungarian Cinema: From Coffee House to Multiplex

by John Cunningham

Overview

Hungarian cinema has often been forced to tread a precarious and difficult path. Through the failed 1919 revolution to the defeat of the 1956 Uprising and its aftermath, Hungarian film-makers and their audiences have had to contend with a multiplicity of problems. In the 1960s, however, Hungary entered into a period of relative stability and increasing cultural relaxation, resulting in an astonishing growth of film-making. Innovative and groundbreaking directors such as Miklós Jancsó (Hungarian Rhapsody, The Red and the White), István Szabó (Mephisto, Sunshine) and Márta Mészaros (Little Vilma: The Last Diary) emerged and established the reputation of Hungarian films on a global basis. This is the first book to discuss all major aspects of Hungarian cinema, including avant-garde, animation, and representations of the Gypsy and Jewish minorities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781903364796
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	03/24/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

John Cunningham teaches Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University and at the London Centre, University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Birth of an Industry
2. The End of Empire: Revolution, Reaction and the "Talkies"
3. Quotas, Foreigners and Co-Productions
4. The 1930s and the Second World War
5. Somewhere in Europe: Reconstruction and Stalinism
6. Upturns, Downturns and Merry-Go-Rounds: The Road to 1956
7. The 1960s: New Directors, New Films, New Wave
8. The 1970s and the 1980s: The Transitional Years
9. The Walls Come Down: The "System Change" and After
10. Documentary, Animation and the Avant-Garde
11. Jews, Gypsies and Others
12. Foci, Fradi and the "Golden Team"
13. Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

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