Formations Of Masculinity In Post-communist Hungarian Cinema: Labyrinthian Men
by György Kalmár /
2017 / English / PDF
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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.
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.