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Mrs. Bridgeman who herself builds no bridges. Women and/in Hungarian cinema (industry) in the past sixty years

The article explores women's involvement in the production processes of film industry during state-socialist times and after. Based on original research, and approaching existing source material from a new perspective, the study asks the question of whether state-socialist policies to encourage women's employment also affected the domain of creative work? The text also juxtaposes a relatively favourable representation of women during the decades of state-socialism with recent male-dominated, if not homosocial shooting and production processes.




Futball = politics and business? To the death of Ferenc Puskás

The death of Ferenc Puskás was a political event in Hungary – different groups of the ruling elite has transformed the burial to a play. The political message of Fidesz and the catholic clergy did not fit to the taste of the majority of the society. The article outlines the reasons behind, and shows the mystic and romantic nationalist interpretations of Puskás career and opposes it to his actual life path. The author shows that football became the tool of populist political manipulation also on the global field. Puskás "Öcsi" could not avoid his fate either. Politics and business are organically and inextricably intertwined also in the football industry.