Formations of Masculinity in Post-Communist Hungarian Cinema: Labyrinthian Men

Author:   Gyorgy Kalmar
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
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9783319636634


Pages:   164
Publication Date:   04 October 2017
Format:   Hardback
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This book investigates the formations of masculinity in Hungarian cinema after the fall of communism and explores some of the cultural phenomena of the years following the 1989 regime change. The films explored offer a unique perspective encompassing two entirely different worlds: state socialism and neoliberal capitalism. The films suggest that Eastern Europe is somehow different than its western counterpart and that its subjects are marked by what they went through before and after 1989. These films are all remembering, interpreting, picturing, marketing and trying to come to terms with this difference—with the memory and effects of state-socialism.  In looking closely at the films’ male figures, one may not only get a glimpse of the dramatic changes Eastern European societies went through after the fall of communism but also see the brave new world of global neoliberal capitalism through the eyes of the Eastern European newcomers.

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Author:   Gyorgy Kalmar
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
Weight:   3.493kg
ISBN:  

9783319636634


ISBN 10:   3319636634
Pages:   164
Publication Date:   04 October 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. The labyrinth principle: Figures of entrapment in Hungarian art-house cinema.- 3. Historical ruptures and ironic masculinities. (Moscow Square. Ferenc Török, 2001).- 4. Men on the margins of history. (Hukkle. György Pálfi, 2002).- 5. Just the Wind. Benedek Fliegauf, 2012).- 9. Conclusions.

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This study of New Hungarian Cinema provides an interesting outline of important films from the new millennium and will be of interest to those interested in film as well as in recent Hungarian social and cultural studies. (Clara Orban, Hungarian Cultural Studies, Vol. 13, 2020)


“This study of New Hungarian Cinema provides an interesting outline of important films from the new millennium and will be of interest to those interested in film as well as in recent Hungarian social and cultural studies.” (Clara Orban, Hungarian Cultural Studies, Vol. 13, 2020)


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György Kalmár is Reader in film and cultural studies at the Department of British Studies of the University of Debrecen, Hungary.  His main teaching and research areas include literary and cultural theory, contemporary Hungarian film, gender studies, and British literature. He has published extensively in the above mentioned fields.

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