Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781780764511 |
| ISBN10: | 17807645111 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 480 pages |
| Size: | 216x138 mm |
| Weight: | 734 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 30 integrated bw, 1 map |
| 680 |
Category:
Jews, Nazis and the Cinema of Hungary
The Tragedy of Success, 1929-1944
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Date of Publication: 13 October 2017
Number of Volumes: Hardback
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Short description:
Demonstrates how the transnational process of forging an industry designed to define a national culture proved particularly contentious and surprisingly contradictory in the heyday of racial nationalism and antisemitism. This title details the interplay of Hungarian cultural and political elites, Nazi officials, and global film moguls.
Long description:
Between 1929 and 1942, Hungary's motion picture industry experienced meteoric growth. It leapt into Europe's top echelon, trailing only Nazi Germany and Italy in feature output. Yet by 1944, Hungary's cinema was in shambles, internal and external forces having destroyed its unification experiments and productive capacity. This original cultural and political history examines the birth, unexpected ascendance, and wartime collapse of Hungary's early sound cinema by placing it within a complex international nexus. Detailing the interplay of Hungarian cultural and political elites, Jewish film professionals and financiers, Nazi officials, and global film moguls, David Frey demonstrates how the transnational process of forging an industry designed to define a national culture proved particularly contentious and surprisingly contradictory in the heyday of racial nationalism and antisemitism.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1 - When Silence became Loud. The Silent Era and the Origins of Sound
Chapter 2 - Constructing the Fantasy of Hungary. Elite Concepts of the National
Chapter 3 - National Cinema, International Stage. Film Trade and Foreign Relations
Chapter 5 - The Flawed Christian National System
Chapter 6 - The War
Chapter 7 - The National Spirit Doesn't Stick to Celluloid. Hungary's Failed Nationalist Film Experiments
Conclusion
Chapter 1 - When Silence became Loud. The Silent Era and the Origins of Sound
Chapter 2 - Constructing the Fantasy of Hungary. Elite Concepts of the National
Chapter 3 - National Cinema, International Stage. Film Trade and Foreign Relations
Chapter 5 - The Flawed Christian National System
Chapter 6 - The War
Chapter 7 - The National Spirit Doesn't Stick to Celluloid. Hungary's Failed Nationalist Film Experiments
Conclusion
