Film Genres in Hungarian and Romanian Cinema - History, Theory, and Reception

This book analyzes Hungarian and Romanian cinema employs a film historical overview to merge the study of small national cinemas with film genre theory and cultural theory.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Conceptual Foundations, Corpus and Methodology
Chapter 2: A Historical Overview of Hungarian and Romanian Genre Cinema
Chapter 3: Small National Cinemas, Genre Theory and Cultural Polysystems
Chapter 4: A 21st-Century Panorama: Glocal Connections and Regional Resemblances in Hungarian and Romanian Popular Films
Chapter 5: Melodramas: "Non/Excessive Crisis Heterotopias" in Small National and Global Melodramas
Chapter 6: Westerns, Gangsters and Thrillers: "Transparent" Western Vistas and Male Traumas along the Global Mainstream-Small National Axis
Chapter 7: Transitional Horror and Science Fiction: Patterns of Embodiment in Mainstream and Small National Horror/Science-Fiction Hybrids
Chapter 8: Crime and Changing Society/Technology: Analogue Feminine Traumas and Digital Electronic Traces in Small National Crime Thrillers
Chapter 9: A Post/Classical Formation: The Co-Productional Eastern European Film Noir
Chapter 10: Women's Films and Female Film Stars in 21st Centur

About the author

Andrea Virginás is associate professor in the media department of Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania.

Summary

This book analyzes Hungarian and Romanian cinema employs a film historical overview to merge the study of small national cinemas with film genre theory and cultural theory.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Virginas, Andrea Virginás, Virginás Andrea
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781793613431
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-343-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film history, theory & criticism, Film: styles & genres, Film Theory & Criticism, Film: styles and genres