CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Bornemissza, Ágnes |
|---|---|
| Title | Revealing the Criminal: Crime Films as Symptoms of the Social Imaginary of Late-socialist Hungarian Society |
| Summary | This paper discusses the social dilemmas and anxieties of late-socialist years in Hungarian society through the analysis of crime films of the period. Through identifying key social issues as themes in the allegorical narrative of these films, I will draw attention to aspect of the social imaginary and uncover social reality of the 1980s. These products of the social imaginary come forth as identification and potential solution fantasies to help the people of this time of unpredictability navigate the social situation they were in. I argue that the detectives of these crime films undertake a journey to bring light to the malfunctions of the system through revealing the criminal, while living the anxieties and dilemmas of the common people. |
| Supervisor | Kowalski, Alexandra; Szönyi, E. György |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/bornemissza_agnes.pdf |
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