CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Mago-Maghiar, Ana |
|---|---|
| Title | Representations of Sexuality in Hungarian Popular Culture of the 1980s |
| Summary | Abstract The 20th century has witnessed the emergence of debates on popular culture. On the one hand there is the Marxist view represented by the members of the Frankfurt School, while the most persuasive arguments on the other side were articulated by John Fiske. Interestingly, neither of these scholars has considered the implications of popular culture theory for gender analysis or for a state-socialist context. This thesis has two parts. The first one is a theoretical examination of the debate on popular culture as it emerged from the works of Theodor Adorno and John Fiske. The author assesses the influence of feminist research on the development of the discipline of cultural studies, as well as the possible (ir)relevance of the concepts for the state-socialist context of Hungarian cultural production. The second part is a case study in which the author investigates the complexity of cultural politics specifically related to the regulation of female sexuality. I argue that in order to overcome the one-sided picture of state-socialist cultural contexts popular culture under state-socialist regimes needs to be included as a legitimate source of research on equal footing with the almost exclusively high-culture based studies hitherto undertaken. |
| Supervisor | Barát Erzsébet |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/mago-maghiar_ana.pdf |
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