Cicavízió. A macskák szerepe a Kádár-kor mesefilmjeiben
Puss-Visions: The Role of Cat Characters in Kádár-Era Animated Cartoons

Summary/Abstract: The Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party was the chief body of cultural control in Hungary. As such, children television created programs that would harmonize with the premises of socialist morality. My paper explores the social and political contexts leading animators to use cat characters in their works, and the cultural icons they created. Since the cat is a reapperaing character in Kádár-era animations made either for the large or the small screen, in the focus of my investigation are feline representations. Many of these have gained an iconic status by today.

• Details
• Contents