This volume examines the various forms of mobility in the cinema of the Visegrad countries and Romania, bringing together the cross-disciplinary research of mostly native scholars. Divided into four thematic sections, it expands the reader's understanding of the political transition and the social changes it triggered, the transforming perceptions of gender roles and especially masculinity. The spaces of "in betweenness" and contact zones, whether geographical, interethnic or communicative, (im)mobility and transmedial encounters of Eastern European subjectivity are recurring figures of both cinematic representations and their theoretical analyses. In-depth and transcultural in their nature, the investigations gathered in this volume are informed by political, social and cultural history, genre, gender and spatial theory, cultural studies, sociology and political science, and, of equal importance, the rich personal experience of the authors who witnessed many of the discussed phenomena in "close-up".
Hajnal Kirįly, PhD, is a film scholar teaching regularly at Hungarian and Romanian universities. Her publications include a book on adaptation theory in Hungarian and several essays in volumes on intermediality, literary adaptations, and cultural criticism of Eastern European Cinema. Zsolt Gyri, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. His publications include a monograph inspired by Deleuzian film philosophy, an edited volume on British cinema, and three co-edited volumes dedicated to the study of body, identity, ethnicity, gender, space, and power in Hungarian cinema. He is the co-editor of Travelling around Cultures: Collected Essays on Literature and Art (2016), Popular Music and the Moving Image in Eastern Europe (2018), and Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context (2019).
