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    STUDIA DRAMATICA - Issue no. 1 / 2012  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEW: BALOGH GYÖNGYI, ZÁGONI BÁLINT, A KOLOZSVÁRI FILMGYÁRTÁS KÉPES TÖRTÉNETE 1913-TÓL 1920-IG / THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF FILM PRODUCTION IN CLUJ-NAPOCA FROM 1913 UNTIL 1920, KOLOZSVÁR: FILMETT EGYESÜLET/MAGYAR NEMZETI FILMARCHIVUM, 2009.

Authors:  DELIA ENYEDI. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The Hungarian history of cinema has long been the object of study for scholars interested in the dynamic of the seventh art within Europe. The translation into English of the classical Word and Image (Corvina Press, 1968) by Nemeskürty István has also encouraged a foreign focus on the subject, so that John Cunnigham later dedi¬cated a complex research to a film industry that had blos¬somed from the very first stage of the motion pictures, while Charles Drazin, James C. Robertson or Miguel A. Fidalgo grasped the early Hungarian years in the biographies dedicated to the careers of worldwide renowned directors. Against the culturally flourishing capital of Budapest, it was the region of Transylvania and more precisely the city of Kolozsvár/Klausenburg/Cluj (nowadays Cluj-Napoca) that became the epicenter of Hungarian silent film production in the first decades of the 20th century. The loss of this land in favor of Romania, dictated by the 1920 post-World War Treaty of Trianon, has ever since determined a dominance of Hungarian language local silent film history studies pub¬lished on Romanian territory, conducted mainly by Jordáky Lajos.  
         
     
         
         
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