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The continued interest in the social and cultural life of the
former Warsaw pact countries - looking at but also beyond their
socialist pasts - encompasses a desire to know more about their
national cinemas. Yet, despite the increasing consumption of films
from these countries - via DVD, VOD platforms and other alternative
channels - there is a lack of comprehensive information on this key
aspect of visual culture. This important book rectifies the glaring
gap and provides both a history and a contemporary account of East
Central European cinema in the pre-WW2, socialist, and
post-socialist periods. Demonstrating how at different historical
moments popular cinema fulfilled various roles, for example in the
capacity of nation-building, and adapted to the changing markets of
a morphing political landscape, chapters bring together experts in
the field for the definitive analysis of mainstream cinema in the
region.Celebrating the unique contribution of films from Hungary,
the Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia and Poland, from the
award-winning Cosy Dens to cult favourite Lemonade Joe, and from
1960s Polish Westerns to Hollywood-influenced Hungarian movies, the
book addresses the major themes of popular cinema. By looking
closely at genre, stardom, cinema exhibition, production strategies
and the relationship between the popular and the national, it
charts the remarkable evolution and transformation of popular
cinema over time.
This book examines Soviet agriculture in post-1945 Hungary. It
demonstrates how the agrarian lobby, a development following the
1956 revolution, led to contact with the West which allowed for the
creation of an effective agricultural system. The author argues
that this 'Hungarian agricultural miracle,' a hybrid of American
technology and Soviet structures, was fundamental to the success of
Hungarian collectivization.
This book examines Soviet agriculture in post-1945 Hungary. It
demonstrates how the agrarian lobby, a development following the
1956 revolution, led to contact with the West which allowed for the
creation of an effective agricultural system. The author argues
that this 'Hungarian agricultural miracle,' a hybrid of American
technology and Soviet structures, was fundamental to the success of
Hungarian collectivization.
The continued interest in the social and cultural life of the
former Warsaw pact countries - looking at but also beyond their
socialist pasts - encompasses a desire to know more about their
national cinemas. Yet, despite the increasing consumption of films
from these countries - via DVD, VOD platforms and other alternative
channels - there is a lack of comprehensive information on this key
aspect of visual culture. This important book rectifies the glaring
gap and provides both a history and a contemporary account of East
Central European cinema in the pre-WW2, socialist, and
post-socialist periods. Demonstrating how at different historical
moments popular cinema fulfilled various roles, for example in the
capacity of nation-building, and adapted to the changing markets of
a morphing political landscape, chapters bring together experts in
the field for the definitive analysis of mainstream cinema in the
region.Celebrating the unique contribution of films from Hungary,
the Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia and Poland, from the
award-winning Cosy Dens to cult favourite Lemonade Joe, and from
1960s Polish Westerns to Hollywood-influenced Hungarian movies, the
book addresses the major themes of popular cinema. By looking
closely at genre, stardom, cinema exhibition, production strategies
and the relationship between the popular and the national, it
charts the remarkable evolution and transformation of popular
cinema over time.
Worlds of Hungarian Writing responds to the rapidly growing
interest in Hungarian authors throughout the English-speaking
world. Addressing an international audience, the essays in the
collection highlight the intercultural contexts that have molded
the conventions, genres and institutions of Hungarian writing from
the nineteenth century to the present. They are mapping some of the
ways in which a modern literature is produced by encounters with
languages, cultures, and media external to its traditionally
conceived boundaries. But rather than viewing intercultural
exchange as an external force, the collection recognizes its
enabling importance to the globalizing reception and circulation of
Hungarian writing over the continuities and constraints implied by
more traditional national narratives. Worlds of Hungarian Writing
posits intercultural exchange as the very substance of a literary
culture. Discussions of the politics of appropriation and
translation, of the impact of emigre writers and critics, and of
the use of world-literary models in genre-formation complement
studies of the fate of western leftist critical theory in post-1989
Hungary, of the role of African-American models in contemporary
Roma culture, and of the use of photography in late 20th-century
prose. The volume spans a wide generic range, from the achievements
of such canonical 19th-century critics and poets as Jozsef Bajza
and Janos Arany, to neglected women authors-translators such as
Theresa Pulszky, to modernist writers and critics like Antal Szerb
and Gyoergy Lukacs, and to the contemporary novelists Peter
Esterhazy, Peter Nadas, and Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Each essay is an
original contribution to comparative literature and to the study of
this Central-European literature, but is intended to be accessible
to readers unfamiliar with its traditions.
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