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- Canonizes the filmic texts of contemporary Hungarian and Romanian cinema by providing them with a national and aesthetic context
- Establishes two aesthetic-spatial categories that encompass the whole cinema of the Eastern European region
- Investigates the impact of socialism on visual thinking
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book examines the structuring of space in Romanian and Hungarian cinema, and particularly how space is used to express the deep imprint of a socialist past on a post-socialist present. It considers this legacy of the Eastern European socialist regimes by interrogating the suffocating, tyrannical and enclosing structures that are presented in film. By tracing such paradigmatic models as horizontal and vertical enclosure, this book aims to show how enclosed spatial structuring restages the post-socialist era to produce an implicit and collective form of remembrance. While closely scrutinizing the interplay of location and image, Space in Romanian and Hungarian Cinema offers a new approach to the cinema of the region, which unites the filmic productions under a defined, post-socialist Eastern European spatial umbrella. By simultaneously portraying the gloom of a socialist past, while also conveying a sense of longing for a pre-capitalist era, these films convey how sense ofunity and also ambivalence is a defining hallmark of Eastern European cinema.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Anna Batori
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Space in Romanian and Hungarian Cinema
Authors: Anna Batori
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75951-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75950-0Published: 25 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09362-4Published: 21 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75951-7Published: 07 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 207
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Cinema and TV, European Culture