Megismerés és elismerés között. A kortárs magyar és román filmkultúrákról
Between Knowing and Recognition. The Relationship between the Contemporary Hungarian and Romanian Film Cultures

Summary/Abstract: The study problematizes how acts of (trans)national fi lm production and consumption get articulated in the ‘social cinematic space’ of the fi lm festival by drawing on an researcher observation of the Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF) held in Cluj, Romania. The author argues first that the workings of prestige can be fruitfully applied to explain the presence of the Hungarian fi lm and Hungarian fi lm-makers, while the festival programmers, being members and promoters of the new generation of Romanian fi lm-makers, are involved in creating their own symbolic capital. While a Hegelian desire for recognition is also considered, the analysis is taken further along a conceptualization of group culture(s) seen as arising between two groups as a ‘mirage’ encompassing one’s view of the other (Jameson 1993); as such it draws attention to both the relational character and the subjectivities invested in the creation of Hungarian and Romanian fi lm cultures as enabled by the discursive practices of the festival.

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