Rendszerváltás? A kortárs magyar film nőképéről
A Change of Regime? Women of PostTransitional Hungarian Cinema

Summary/Abstract: Considering the last three decades an era of political, cultural and economic transition in Hungary, the article explores the articulation of female characters in Hungarian feature films after the regime change. Focusing especially on the social progress and downfall performed by female protagonists, it uses the database built by the Social History of Hungarian Cinema research pro ject, containing such socially significant data of Hungarian feature films as gender, age, occupation, financial and class/social situation, goals and achievements of ma in and secondary characters, beside the genre, time, place and type of conflict presented by the respective narratives. Combining quantitative data with qualitative consideration, the article points out some data based, general trends characteristic of post-communist, female-centred narratives. The chances and possibilities assigned to women are explored through the subtopics of female protagonists in public and private spheres (places, roles, occupation, conflicts) and by pointing to the differences genre and auteur films show in featuring women in narratives of failure or success.

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