Ornithophobia
Ornithophobia

Summary/Abstract: Inspired by his own ornithophobia, the author explores how the representation of birds in Hungarian cartoons and movies may have shaped the mental images of birds for children growing up in Socialist Hungary during the 1970s and 1980s. Stories about Dr. Bubo, Kukori and Kotkoda, Nils Holgersson and others show how a great variety of bird characters were present in this world, with some surprising attributes, as humanized characters but retaining features of birds and strange combinations of these. The article offers a subjective movie history of birds available to viewers in the Kádár era.

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