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.
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978-1-903364-80-2 (9781903364802)
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John Cunningham teaches Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University and at the London Centre, University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
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
