Hungarian Cinema

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by John Cunningham

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Europe

Keywords

Hungary, Eastern Europe

Publishing date

2004

Publisher

Wallflower Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 272 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

1-903364-80-9
978-1-903364-80-2

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Book Presentation:
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.

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

Press Reviews:
Cunningham has given us a very important book. Film Quarterly

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