The aim of this paper is to address the interrelated fields of politics, nation and cinema in the period of the Second World War, in short to reflect upon the uses and abuses of political cinema. The study of British propaganda cinema is by no means a groundbreaking topic, it has been discussed to varying degrees and depths by several … Read more
Film Criticism
Towards a Deconstruction of the Screen
This text is searching for representations of the cinematic screen in film theory. I do not intend to touch the realm of other screens, for example the television screen. In a second step I will try to show the ways in which specific art performances approximate the screen. My assumption thereby is that the screen in the cinema is – … Read more
On the Metaphysics of Screen Violence and Beyond
The paper deals with the problem of representability of entropic change, such as extreme violence or death by means of motion, i.e. moving pictures. It argues that film or moving images by nature are not capable of expressing or meaning once-for-all changes, contrary to the photograph. Moving images trigger a sense of continuity in the viewers, a feeling that takes … Read more
Analysis of Audition (Takashi Miike)
Analyzing the shock tactics of the film, the paper discusses Takashi Miikes film AUDITION as an example of a corporeal cinema, in which the body of the spectator is employed as a medium of the film’s narration. The article shows how the film’s strategies of visceral engagement are indebted to a radical aesthetic modernism. In recent years, scholars have given … Read more
About the works of Andy Warhol
In this paper I focus on the audiovisual work of Andy Warhol as it was presented in the Warhol exhibition “Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms” which took place in Amsterdam in 2007. By investigating the self-reflexive play with cinematic temporality performed upon the viewer I wish to address how a (sense of) “self” emerges from the multiple temporalities and … Read more
About the film theory of Deleuze
This paper will revisit the question of the pertinence and critical applicability of basic concepts of European film theory, and especially Gilles Deleuze’s notion of the cinematic time-image, in the age of global electronic media. It will be argued that the Deleuzean rationale of the mutually reversible cinematic time-image is highly relevant for coming to grips with the experience of … Read more
Portrait of Gábor Bódy
This paper investigates an example of the theater – film interface. Recent studies in mediality have given new impetus to the postsemiotic theories of adaptation and representational logic. Film theories have amply benefited from comparative investigations into the analogies and differences between theatrical and cinematic representational techniques. My focus here is on Shakespearean scholarship and the reinterpretations of the early … Read more
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filminhungary
www.filminhungary.com is a database representing Hungary for foreign film professionals as an ideal shooting place. Additionally to the detailed introduction of the Hungarian cinema (including producers, dealers, companies, financial institutions) the English webpage and service system provides information about Hungarian film law, as well as experiencies and oppurtunites relate to it. The page also offers a detalied list of locations and … Read more
Interview with János Kende
János Kende started work with Jancsó in 1965 and two years later became his favoured cinematographer. For 25 years, Kende was behind the camera on almost every feature that the director made. In addition, he also worked with other great names in Hungarian cinema, such as Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács, Márta Mészáros, Pál Gábor and others. His camerawork is particularly noted for … Read more
