Tükörjáték. A kelet-európaiság konstrukciója a nyugat- és kelet-európai bűnügyi sorozatokban
A Game of Mirrors: Western/Eastern European Crime Series and the Struggle for Recognition

Summary/Abstract: Our article focuses on a corpus of crime television series reflecting upon differences between Western and Eastern Europe – a phenomenon which we’ll address as the ‘West-East slope.’ The series figure as instances of the struggle for recognition at the level of the social imaginary, between West and East Europe. Addressing the double logic of the Western narrative on Eastern Europe and the Eastern narrative of Western Europe, one of our main findings is that the recognition aesthetics of Eastern Europe produced a multi-layered representation of the West varying from country to country. On the other hand in Western productions there is still a bias toward a more politically correct image of Easternness, a state of affairs which is questioned by Eastern European attempts to produce their original contents.

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