Learning Experiences in Hungarian Movies
Learning Experiences in Hungarian Movies

Summary/Abstract: I selected Hungarian films, fulfilled with strong cultural, social and political meanings, because I am looking for films dealing with contradictions and comparisons that reveal the universal face of capitalism and modernity or capitalism combined with modernity, defined by learning experience, alienation, isolation and different ways of individualization. These films were selected by Hungarian film critics in 1968 and 2000 as part of the Budapest 12, the twelve best films of Hungary. In my psycho-sociological approach I wish to discuss the differences between modernity and tradition, old generation and new generation, outward and inward transformation of the characters strongly related to the different learning experiences inside or outside school. I intend to analyze the films as articulated audiovisual discourses by revealing the stories related to the learning experiences; by analyzing events and activities from which one learns by experience and can identify, to a certain extent, what he or she has learnt.

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