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Time in Hungarian Ethnographic Film
Author(s) -
TARI WITH MARCUS BANKS JÁNOS
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
visual anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.346
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1548-7458
pISSN - 1058-7187
DOI - 10.1525/var.2007.23.1.76
Subject(s) - ethnography , object (grammar) , space (punctuation) , production (economics) , temporality , spacetime , sociology , visual arts , history , media studies , aesthetics , art , epistemology , computer science , linguistics , anthropology , artificial intelligence , philosophy , physics , economics , quantum mechanics , macroeconomics
Ethnographic film in Hungary has developed in ways mostly similar to its European counterparts. However, it is distinctive in terms of its technological development and institutional involvement that have lead to some specific modes of representing the chronotype, that is, the time‐space of Hungary. This article examines how Hungarian ethnographic film manipulates the concepts of time. The very nature of film makes it an appropriate medium in which to consider time. Film continually and readily undergoes change. As a signifying, material object, film transcends the conditions of its immediate production as it generates a stream of meaningful representations. Film from the past can be added to recent footage—it is not locked within a particular time.