Discourse, power and resistance in sociographic documentaries of the late Kádár-era

Győri, Z.: Discourse, power and resistance in sociographic documentaries of the late Kádár-era.
Studies in Eastern European Cinema. 5 (2), 103-123, 2014.

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cím:

szerzők:

Győri Zsolt

levelező szerző:

Győri Zsolt

kiadás éve:

2014

típus:

folyóiratcikk

műfaj:

idegen nyelvű folyóiratközlemény külföldi lapban

folyóirat:

Studies in Eastern European Cinema (ISSN: 2040-350X, 2040-3518)

nyelv:

angol

MAB:

bölcsészettudományok, irodalom- és kultúratudományok

absztrakt:

The first part of the article introduces the communal identity crisis in Hungary and related social phenomena (including double social consciousness, socialist embourgeoisement, second society) characterizing the late Kádár-era. After addressing the internal paradoxes of the state socialist regime, I examine the attributes of discursive strategies and practices of social marginalization at work in the period. My line of inquiry engages with Michel Foucault's theories of power and resistance and investigates how his concepts and arguments can be adapted to the analysis of contemporary sociographic documentaries. The second part of the essay proposes a Foucauldian rereading of cine-sociographic methods in Gyula and János Gulyás' Don't Pale(1983) and Without Breaking the Law(1988), András Mész' Busted(1985) and György Dobray's two-part A Film About Prostitution (1988?1990). In these films I explore techniques of marginalization and victimization, and furthermore investigate strategies of identity-construction, mechanisms of domination and resistance on the social peripheries.