Barczi Tamás: Stalker – Budapest Edition

Whenever you hear the words ghost town, zone, or stalker, you immediately think of Chernobyl or some other distant soviet ruins. It might be surprising to many, that such places exist in our own vicinity, inside the borders of Budapest.   One of the most well known ghost sites is the Istvántelek train depot. Although it is…

Labundy Kati: Women in focus

One of the challenges I need to face when analyzing the experience of Charlotte Brontë and Jean Rhys’ heroines on screen, is to do it so from a male point of view, that is, through the eyes of the director of the given film.At least it might seem evident to focus primarily on him, yet…

Gombás Kriszti – Ghosts of the Past

Running from the terrible past? What is it to really love somebody? Can you still be in love, when you find out horrible things about the person, you’ve spent your life with? Can you continue to live a happy life, when your past haunts you? These are the issues, the main characters of the musical,…

Kassai Zita – Writing as Deception

Manipulation of the patriarchal order by means of a letter − this is one of the main topics I am going to investigate while I continue my research in order to extend an eight-page essay I have produced during the previous semester. This essay, which is dealing with William Wycherley’s Restoration comedy The Country Wife,…