This interview was published in the USA in 2002, and this is the first Hungarian publication; after the death of Jancsó it flashes light on some basic characteristics of his personality and directorial credo. The informal intonation was also an organic part of his personality.
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Two men against history A comparative analysis films by Miklós Jancsó and Andrzej Wajda
The death of Miklós Jancsó provides a tragic apropos to evaluate the universal implication of the oeuvre of the great leftist director, who was always critical towards the world of capitalism. The Polish author comparatively analyses two movies of Wajda and two movies of Jancsó to conceptualize gripping aesthetical conclusions that introduces the two great directors into the context of both national and universal movie culture.
The early period of the Hungarian folk-dance movement – social ideology or national art?
The beginnings of Hungarian dance-house movement in its present form were in the 1970s. Nevertheless, it has important precedents already between the world wars and after WWII. There are no such widely known legendaries about these earlier folk dance movements, but it is still important to study them from the aspects of cultural- and social histories and of the history of ideas as well.
No. 100 | (Winter 2013)
Table of contents
- The past and future of Eszmélet. Frequent readers answer the question of the editors
- Eleonora de Lucena, Mészáros István : Barbarism on the horizon. An interview with István Mészáros by Eleonora de Lucena
- Szalai László, Lugosi Győző, Búr Gábor : Repression is cawing in a murder. Győző Lugosi talks to Gábor Búr and László Szalai
- Szigeti Péter, Andor László, Krausz Tamás : Capitalism has not been created by the EU… Lászó Andor answers Tamás Krausz and Péter Szigeti
- Szigeti Péter : Constructing the Political. The Problem of Political by Carl Schmitt, Marx, Weber and the Neo-Marxists
- Tütő László, Terbe Teréz : Transition Movement
- Peter North : Surviving Financial Meltdown: Argentina’s Barter Networks
- Eszterhai Viktor : The Guanxi in Asian Interstate Relations. Rethinking the China-centred Feudal Aid System
- Chris Hann : Time’s Arrow in Tázlár (and in Anthropology)
- Zolcsák Attila : The Chilean Student Movement
- Farkas Péter : In Defence of System-based Critical Economics
- Bartha Eszter : “I am Hungarian but a European”
- Tütő László : Two Insurrections
- Szarka Klára : Capa 100
- Appeal for an Egalitarian Europe
- Stéphane Madelaine, Vincent Liegey, Christophe Ondet, Anne-Isabelle Veillot : Degrowth Project, Manifesto for an Unconditional Autonomy Allowance
Neo-Horthysm and the ‘Second Edition of Capilalism’
East European historians Tamás Krausz and Miklós Mitrovits talk to Klára Szarka.