Education

• PhD in Communication (Moving Image Studies) Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2007.
• MA in Philosophy. University of Pécs, Hungary. 2001.

Book

Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

 

Journal Articles /Book Chapters

“Manufacturing histories: the construction of 1989 on the Romanian screen.” In. Romanian Cinema in the Cultural Framework: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Film, Literature, History and the Visual Arts) Ed. Dominique Nasta. Les Éditions de l’Université de Bruxelles. Forthcoming. 2022.

“Move on Down. Precarity and Downward Mobility in Contemporary Hungarian Feature Films” In. Precarity in European Films. Depictions and discourses. Eds: Elisa Cuter, Guido Kirsten and Hanna Prenzel. DeGruyter. 2022.

“Instrumentalization of the border zone. Environment and ideology in the educational films of the BM Filmstúdió.” Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies. Vol. 20, 2021, 151-164.

“From affect to instrument: interpellation and governmentality in the BM Filmstúdió collection”, Studies in Eastern European Cinema. 11:2 (2020), pp. 157-172.

“Hesitant Journeys: fugitive and migrant narratives in the new Romanian Cinema”, in Journeys On Screen: Theory, ethics and aesthetics. (eds.) Louis Bayman—Natália Pinazza. Edinburgh University Press. 2019. pp. 130-146. 

“Realism under Construction: Radu Jude's It Can Pass Through the Wall”, Short Film Studies. 7: 2 (2017) pp. 149-52.

“Márta Mészáros.” Co-authored with Parvulescu, Constantin. In Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies. Ed. Krin Gabbard. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791286/obo-9780199791286-0203.xml 2016.

“Producing Prejudice: The Rhetoric of Discourses in and around Current Films on Roma-Hungarian Interethnic Relations.” Romani Studies 5, Vol. 24, No. 1 (2014), 1–24.

“Back to the Past: Mnemonic themes in contemporary Hungarian cinema.” East European Film Bulletin. http://eefb.org/essays/back-to-the-past/  March 2014. 

“Archeology of Flesh: History and Body-Memory in Taxidermia.” Jump Cut. 53 (2011) http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc53.2011/strauszTaxidermia/index.html

“On the River: History as a Palimpsestic Narrative in The Danube Exodus.” Film-Philosophy. 15.1 (2011) 100-117. http://www.film-philosophy.com/index.php/f-p/article/view/110/784 

“The Politics of Style in Miklós Jancsó’s The Red and the White and The Lord’s Lantern in Budapest.” Film Quarterly. 2009 Vol. 62, No. 3, pp. 41-47.

“Cinema and National Identity” Co-authored with Restivo, Angelo. Nations and Nationalism: A Global Historical Overview. (eds.) Guthram Herb and David Kaplan. ABC-CLIO. 2008.

 

Publications in Hungarian

“Realizmus és modernizmus között: hezitáció és az új roman film értelmezésének keretei” (Between realism and modernism: hesitation and the interpretive framework of new Romanian cinema) Metropolis. 2017/2. (in Hungarian)

“Visszabeszélés és önegzotizálás.” (Mimicry and Self-Exoticization) Pannonhalmi Szemle 2014/1 104-119. (in Hungarian)

“Vissza a múltba: az emlékezés tematikája fiatal magyar rendezőknél” (Back to the past: mnemonic themes in contemporary Hungarian film) Metropolis. 2011/3. (in Hungarian)

“Az identitás régészete: Film és festészet” (The Archeologists of Identity: Film & Painting, Greenaway & Jarman) Déli Felhõ. 1998/3. 6-14. (in Hungarian)

 

Book Reviews

 

“Ineffable experiences. Monica Filimon (2017) Cristi Puiu.” Studies in Eastern European Cinema. 9.2 (2018).

“Social Transformation and the Language of Cinema. Florentina C. Andreescu (2013) From Communism to Capitalism: Nation and State in Romanian Cultural Production.” Studies in Eastern European Cinema. 7.2 (2016).

“Cristina Vatulescu (2010) Police Aesthetics. Literature, Film and the Secret Police in Soviet Times.” Book Review. Film-Philosophy. 16.1 (2012) 270-275. http://www.film-philosophy.com/index.php/f-p/article/view/890/843

 

Editorial Work

2017- Studies in Eastern European Cinema, Routledge – Associate Editor

 

Teaching Experience

2010 - Assistant Professor, Film Studies Department, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

2018 Fall – Teaching Fellow, Visual Studies Platform and Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University

2013 – 2015 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Gender Studies, Central European University, Budapest

2011 – Lecturer, Arts Management Program, International Business School – Budapest

2009- 2010 Teaching Fellow, MA Film Studies Programme, University College London, Centre for Intercultural Studies.

2008- 2009 Visiting Assistant Professor, Bucknell University, English Department.

2007-2008 Visiting Instructor, Georgia State University. Communication Department

 

Research Grants

2018 Autumn - Teaching Fellow, Visual Studies Platform, OSA-Central European University

2018 Summer - Visegrád Scholarship, Open Society Archives, Budapest

 

Conference Presentations

 

“Transformers of the real. Socialist realist agents in Hungarian educational films for the internal services” NECS Annual Conference, Bucharest, June 2022

“Vom Affekt zum Instrument: die Propagandafilme des ungarischen Innenministeriums zwischen 1955-1989” Invited speaker, Scientific Colloquium of the Stasi Record Archive, Berlin, May 2022

“Instrumentalization of the border zone: Environment and ideology in the educational films of the BM Filmstúdió” Studies in Eastern European Cinemas Conference, May 2021.

“Manufacturing histories: Hesitation in contemporary Romanian films” Romanian Cinema in the Cultural Framework:  A multidisciplinary approach. Conference at the University of Brussels, December 2019.

“Viewership as striving” Annual conference of the Hungarian Association for Film Studies. Szeged, September 2018.

“Canonical Bodies: Acting, authorship and transtextuality in the new Romanian cinema” NECS Annual Conference, Paris, June 2017

“Journeying in between: Mobility and social construction in the new Romanian cinema” NECS Annual Conference, Potsdam, July 2016

“Mobility and social construction in Romanian cinema and television” The Real and the Intermedial XVI. International Film and Media Studies Conference in Transylvania. Cluj. October 2015.

“The production of hesitation in space” 2nd Marx at the Movies Conference: Cinema and the Present Day, University of Central Lancashire, July 2015.

“Modernism under construction: film on filmmaking in the Ceausescu era” NECS Annual Conference, Lodz, May 2015

“Beyond realism and modernism: methodological observations on the new Romanian cinema” Screen Memories Conference, Budapest, 2014. Principal organizer of the conference.

“Producing Prejudice: The Rhetoric of Discourses in and around Current Films on Roma-Hungarian Interethnic Relations” NECS Annual Conference, Prague, 2013

“Mnemonic themes in contemporary Hungarian film” Body and Subjectivity in Contemporary Hungarian Cinema. Conference at the University of Debrecen, May 2012

“Pictorial tropes and historical memory: allegory and symbol in recent Romanian and Hungarian films” Invited Keynote Address. Re-Living Disaster: Film-History-Identity, Graduate Conference, Birkbeck University, London, April 2010.   

“On the River: History as a palimpsestic narrative in The Danube Exodus”

SCMS Annual Conference, Los Angeles, March 2010.

“Cinematic Images of History in Romanian and Hungarian Contemporary Film” Invited speaker at University College London - School of Slavonic and East European Studies’ seminar series Centre for the Study of Eastern Europe. February 2010.

“Architecture of Flesh: The Triptych of the Body as History in Taxidermia.” SCMS Annual Conference, Philadelphia, March 2008.

“From the Aesthetics of Geometry Towards the Face: Public vs. Private Space in Miklós Jancsó’s The Red and the White and The Lord’s Lantern in Budapest.” SCMS Annual Conference, Chicago, March 2007.

“Bending Space: Narrative Functions of the Vertigo Shot.” SCMS Annual Conference, London, April 2005.

“Witnesses of War: Point-of-view and Identification in War Films.” War in Film and Literature. Conference of Film-Literature Association. Dallas, November 2004.

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