Abstract
Post-socialist entertainment television became a focal medium to continue cultivating her myth in cultural memory, which involved re-circulating the documentary footage. This chapter's aims to investigate the Hungarian documentary and auteur canon to problematize the historiography of this area of Hungarian film culture through the close analysis of Pretty Girls' contradictory position in various discourses. Pretty Girls throws these problematic power relationships into sharp relief through the uniquely visible and explicit gender politics of the film, its production and authorial background and its cultural position. The historiography of Hungary's 1980s documentary film culture particularly illuminates this dynamic due to this era's complex entanglement with political-economic-cultural Westernization efforts. The documentary's unsubtlety in using the dead female body to produce authorship is exposed by its own purported aim to expose the ethics of masculine art and authorship.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Routledge Companion to European Cinema |
Editors | Gábor Gergely, Susan Hayward |
Place of Publication | London |
Publisher | Routledge |
Chapter | 9 |
Pages | 96-108 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781003027447 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2021 |