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Space in Romanian and Hungarian Cinema

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Authors:
  1. Anna Batori

    1. Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Anna Batori
    Pages 1-18

  3. The Socialist Production of Eastern European Space

    • Anna Batori
    Pages 19-40

  4. The Socialist Cinema of Romania

    • Anna Batori
    Pages 41-52

  5. The Romanian Films of the Transition Period

    • Anna Batori
    Pages 53-62

  6. Romanian New Cinema

    • Anna Batori
    Pages 63-77

  7. The Cinema of Cristi Puiu

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    Pages 79-113

  8. The Cinema of Corneliu Porumboiu

    • Anna Batori
    Pages 115-139

  9. Horizontal Enclosure in the Post-socialist Cinema of Hungary

    • Anna Batori
    Pages 141-165

  10. Space in Contemporary Hungarian Cinema

    • Anna Batori
    Pages 167-177

  11. Films of the Cursed Hungarian Landscape

    • Anna Batori
    Pages 179-196

  12. Conclusion

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    Pages 197-201

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 203-207
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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.

Reviews

 “Space in Romanian and Hungarian Cinema can ultimately be seen as a valuable study of both Hungarian and Romanian cinema. … The analysis throughout is bold, engaging and original, and, in highlighting a continuation of implicit forms of social, political and historical engagement in the cinemas of post-socialist Hungary and Romania, Batori’s work is a worthwhile addition to the study of post-socialist memory politics.” (Phil Mann, Frames Cinema Journal, June 14, 2019) “This book offers an original and innovative framework for considering Hungarian and Romanian cinema. In focusing on the disciplinary spaces of socialist and post-socialist film, Anna Batori sheds light on the ways in which vertical and horizontal planes and lines in cinema can have significant political implications. This is an important work for film theory as well as for wider studies of the region.” (Matilda Mroz, University of Sussex, UK)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Anna Batori

About the author

Anna Batori is a lecturer in the Faculty of Theatre and Television at Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania. 

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

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