Gábor Gergely is a lecturer in film studies at the University of Lincoln. He has published articles on Hungarian cinema in the 1930s and 1940s, and a book, Foreign Devils (2012), on perceptions of difference in the films of émigré stars in classical Hollywood. More recently, he has published on the MGM Tarzan films of Johnny Weissmuller. He is currently working on the accent, both as a linguistic and as a critical term, in relation to the films and stardom of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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• Introduction Chapter 1: Key Concepts in Pre-1945 Hungarian Cinema Chapter 2: A Contested Film History Chapter 3: An Industry Emerges 1931-1935 Chapter 4: Boom, Crisis and Anti-Semitic Reorganization 1936-1941 Chapter 5: From War Boom to Bust 1941-1944 Epilogue: Industry Reboot and the Myth of a New Start 1945-1947 Concluding Remarks