Népszerű filmkultúra az államszocializmus korában
Popular Film Culture in the Era of State Socialism

An example of Hungarian crime films

Summary/Abstract: Hungarian film history after 1945 is usually defined within the paradigm of authors’ films films.. The status of popular or genre film production during the era of state socialism was controversial in the period 1948–1989, and this influence can still be felt today. The paper, after giving a general review of the status of popular film culture, studies the roots and consequences of this discrepency on the example of a corpus of forty items of crime films. All this can partly enrich the description of the film history of the period, and partly aid the interpretation of contemporary Hungarian film art in which the popular film culture and within it the position of crime films still remains controversial in spite of the social and political set of conditions that should be met.

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