About the Author

Janka Barkóczi

E-Mail: barjanka@gmail.com

Janka Barkóczi is a Hungarian film critic and film historian. She works as an associate of the Institute of Media and Motion Picture Arts at Budapest Metropolitan University and she is a doctoral student at the Doctoral School of Social Communication at Corvinus University of Budapest. She researches and publishes about the history of the Hungarian newsreel industry and the historical context of visual propaganda techniques used in Eastern Europe.

Contributions by Author: Janka Barkóczi

11/30/2017 _Perspective
BARKOCZI_Fig2
1968
screened alterities
Hungary
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
visual argumentation
propaganda
newsreels

Another Twelve Years

Hungarian Newsreels and the Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968

This report has just arrived from Prague. Following the days at the end of August, the daily routine of life slowly returns. In the first days of September, some traces of attempts for blocking the traffic were still visible here and there, like burnt-out buses and various gangs of people. A typical picture: groups gathering in the streets […]