Hungarian Film, 1929-1947

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.

BAFTSS 2018 Best Monograph Runner-up. Comments by the panel: "The subtitle of the book strikes at the heart of Gergely’s concerns both as a critique of the cinema and as an appraisal of the gap in much of the extant academic literature. What is a real pleasure within the book, though, is the extent to which the author is keenly aware of the general ignorance around Hungarian culture for his mainly English-speaking readership, and as a history book more generally, the texts sits well alongside the style of cultural historians like Arthur Marwick. As such, this book speaks across disciplines and is truly enlightening."

• 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