Research

Research

Research

 

 

Selected Publications

[Full list of my publications can be reached here at the Hungarian Scientific Bibliography »»]

BOOK:

  • Szerző a tükörben – Szerzőiség és önreflexió a filmművészetben. [Author in the Mirror: Auteurism and Self-Reflexivity in Cinema.] (Metropolis Books) Kijárat Kiadó, Budapest, 2013. [Downloadable in e-book format here »»]

ARTICLES:

  • The Phenomenology of Trauma – Sound and Haptic Sensuality in Son of Saul. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies vol. 13. (2016) no. 2.
  • Remembering Bodies: Picturing the Body in Hungarian Cinema After the Fall of Communism. Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 2016 vol. 7 no. 2 pp. 153–167. doi. 10.1080/2040350X.2016.1155268
  • Historical Portrait of a European Director. The Cinema of István Szabó. Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 2016 vol. 7 no. 1 pp. 87­–90. doi. 10.1080/2040350X.2016.1116211
  • Testek táguló keretben – Térkoncepciók a modernista magyar filmben. [Bodies in a widening frame – Spatial concepts of Hungarian modernist cinema] In: Győri Zsolt–Kalmár György (eds.): Tér, hatalom és identitás kérdései a magyar filmben. ZOOM 4. Debrecen: Debreceni Egyetemi Kiadó, 2015. pp. 25–40.
  • „…akár kinematográfban a szalag-pántlika…” A géptest metafora adaptálása a Taxidermia című filmben [Adaptation of the Metaphor of the Mechanic Body in the Film Taxidermia by György Pálfi.] Filmszem.net 2015. no 1. pp. 70–84.
  • Nostalgia and archival footage in contemporary Hungarian documentary (Gábor Zsigmond Papp: The Life of an Agent) IMAGES – International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication Vol. XV. (2014) no. 24. pp. 19–26.
  • Gyalogszerrel Tajpejben – Tsai Ming-liang és a „lassú film” [Walk in Taipei – Tsai Ming-liang and “Slow Cinema”.] Pannonhalmi Szemle 2013. no. 2. pp. 82–93.
  • Súlyos testek: Testek a filmben, a nézőtéren és a filmtudományban [Heavy Bodies: Bodies in Film, in the Film Theatre, and in Film Theory.] Metropolis no. 3. pp. 8–25.
  • Nézem, érzem − Tarr Béla, a „lassú mozi” és a befogadói folyamat. [To watch, to feel: Béla Tarr, “slow cinema” and the process of film perception] Filmszem 2012 no. 2.
  • History on Hungarian Television: An Introduction. In: History on television in seven Eastern European countries. (Eds: Cigognetti L, Servetti L, Sorlin P) Instituto Storico Parri, Bologna, 2010, pp 13-27. [In Italian: La storia nella televisione ungherese. In: La Storia in televisione in sette paesi dell’Europa dell’Est (Eds: Cigognetti L, Servetti L, Sorlin P) Instituto Storico Parri, Bologna, 2010, pp 15-29.]
  • Közelkép a Közel-Keletről: Dokumentum, fikció és önreflexió a kortárs iráni filmben. [The Middle East in Close-Up: Documentary, Fiction, and Self-Reflexivity in Contemporary Iranian Cinema] Pannonhalmi Szemle 2009. no. 4.
  • Felületkezelés: Önreflexivitás Michael Haneke filmjeiben [Surface Treatment: Self-Reflexivity in the Films of Michael Haneke]. Metropolis 2007. no. 2.
  • Felfedezőút a filmvilág szubkontinensén: Bevezetés Bollywood történetébe és formáiba [Exploring the Film World’s Subcontinent: The History and Forms of Bollywood – An Introduction]. Metropolis 2007. no. 1.
  • Anamnézia: Idő, emlékezés, felejtés Wong Kar-wai filmjeiben [Anamnesia. Time, memory and oblivion in Wong Kar-wai’s films]. Metropolis 2005. no. 4.
  • Szemközt a világmindenséggel: Tájábrázolás Gaál István filmjeiben [Face to face with the world around us. Depiction of landscape in the films of István Gaál]. Metropolis 2005. no. 3. [In Italian: Di fronte all’universo. Il paesaggio nei film di István Gaál. In: Pintér, Judit–Vecchi, Paolo (eds.): Radici: Il cinema di István Gaál. Torino: Edizione Lindau, 2008.]
  • Játékfilmes dokumentátor: Fekete Ibolya-portré [Documenting by fiction. The Portrait of Ibolya Fekete]. In: Portraits of Hungarian Film Directors (ed.: Zalán, Vince). Budapest: Osiris, 2004.
  • “Tudod mi az az Ember tragédiája?”, Tarr Béla-portré [“Do you know what is The Tragedy of Man?” The Portrait of Béla Tarr]. Filmtett 2003. no. 33.
  • Hosszútávon lázadó: Tony Richardson porter [A Long Distance Rebel: Tony Richardson]. Dunánál 2002. no. 6.
  • Vissza a valósághoz: az olasz neorealizmus és az angol free cinema [Back to Reality: Italian Neo-Realism and English Free Cinema].Filmtett 2001. no. 17. & 2002. no. 18.
  • “A csontváz hamvas bőre” – Az adaptáció változatai Pacskovszky József Esti Kornél csodálatos utazása és Szász János Witman fiúk című filmjében [“The peachy skin of a skeleton” – Techniques of literary adaptation in The Wondrous Voyage of Kornél Esti by József Pacskovszky and in The Witman Boys by János Szász]. In: Adoptációk. JAK Könyvek-Kijárat Kiadó. Budapest, 2000.
  • “Csak nézni, hogy telik a kurva élet”, avagy profán mitológia. Tarr Béla Sátántangó című filmjéről [“Just watching how fucking life goes by”, or a profane mythology – essay on Tarr Béla’s Sátántangó]. Metropolis 1997. no. 2.
  • “Keresd tovább magad!”, Identitás és emlékezés Babits Mihály költészetében [Identity and Mnemotechnique in the Poetry of Mihály Babits]. Literatura 1996. no. 2.

RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS IN ENGLISH:

Database narratives by an analog mind – Hong Sang-soo and the puzzle film
Structures and Voices: Storytelling in Post-Digital Times – The NECS 2019 Conference
University of Gdansk, Poland, 13-15 June 2019

Film as Social/Cultural Manifesto in Contemporary Hungarian Cinema
Media Tactics and Engagement –The NECS 2018 Conference
University of Amsterdam – Vrije University, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 27-29 June 2018

East-European bodies, East-European spaces (Jan P. Matuszynski: The Last Family, Cristi Puiu: Sieranevada)
Contact Zones: Transnational Encounters, Dialogues and Self-Representation in Contemporary Eastern European Literature, Cinema, and Visual Culture – International Conference
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 28-30 September 2017

Authorship and self-reflexivity in Taiwan cinema: Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang
The Poetics of Asian Cinemas – 12th ACSS Conference
Lancaster University, England, 10-12 July 2017

Corporeality, Space, and Speed: The Body as Transmedia Object in Tsai Ming-liang’s “The Walker Project”
Sensibility and the Senses: Media, Bodies, Practices – The NECS 2017 Conference
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Paris, 29 June – 1 July 2017

Embodied History: Symbolic use of bodies in the cinematic representation of Korean history
Film and History: The Korean Example – International Conference
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, 5-6 November 2015

The Phenomenology of Trauma: Sensual Aspects of Son of Saul
The Real and the Intermadial – XVI. International Film and Media Studies Conference in Transylvania
Sapientia University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 23-24 October 2015

Representation of historical memory through sport in Hungarian cinema
Archives of/for the Future – The NECS 2015 Conference
University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland, 18–20 June 2015

Social Network Sites and Social Science Research
Europe and Media – Research Conference and Workshop
Istituto Storico Parri, Regione Emilia-Romagna Assemblea Legislativa, Bologna, Italy, 28-29 November 2014

Remembering Socialist Bodies: Picturing the body in Hungarian cinema after the fall of communism
Screen Memories: Depictions of State Socialism and 1989 in Screen Media – Film Festival & International Conference
Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 20–26 November 2014

Carnal Connections: Body and Intermediality in Early Film Theory
Figurations of Intermediality in Film – XV. International Film and Media Studies Conference in Transylvania
Sapientia University, Cluj-Napoca, 24–25 October 2014

Painful Crisis – South Korean Cinema and the National Divide
International Conference on Crisis in Film and Visual Media
Vilnius University, Contemporary Art Centre, Lithuanian Film Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, 19–20 September 2014

Nostalgia and archival footage in contemporary Hungarian documentary (Gábor Zsigmond Papp: The Life of an Agent)
The Documentary Film of East and Central Europe Conference
Department of Film, Television and New Media, Adam Mickiewicz University – CK Zamek Poznan, Poland, 21 November 2013

The Return of the Secret Agent: Socialist Secret Agents and Informers in Contemporary Hungarian Cinema
Medial Politics – Political Media – The NECS 2013 Conference
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 20–22 June 2013


Conference Presentations

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS IN ENGLISH:

The Changing Representation of Sexual Abuse in Hungarian Cinema: A Social-Historical Perspective
Emergencies: Media in an Unpredictable World – The NECS 2024 Conference
Izmir University of Economics, Turkey, 27–29 June 2024 

The concept of care as a tool for conceptualising female authorship in Eastern European cinema
CARE – The NECS 2023 Conference
University of Oslo, Norway, 14-17 June 2023

Canonisation and Female Film Makers: The Case of Hungarian Cinema
Workshop on Canons organized by the Journal Studies in Eastern European Cinema
Online, 19 May 2023

Mapping Social Change: Spatial Representation and Social Change in Global Cinema
Epistemic Media: Atlas, Archive, Network – The NECS 2022 Conference
Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania, 22-26 June 2022

Keynote speech: Long Twilight at the End of History: Long Twilight (1997) as a Literary Adaptation
The Reel Eye '21 Conference
School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, 2021. szeptember 17.

Modernist Art Cinema and Korean Auteurs – The Case of Hong Sang-soo
100 Years of Korean Cinema – International symposium in celebration of the centenary of Korean cinema
ELTE BTK Filmtudomány Tanszék, Budapest, 2019. október 30.

Database narratives by an analog mind – Hong Sang-soo and the puzzle film
Structures and Voices: Storytelling in Post-Digital Times – The NECS 2019 Conference
University of Gdansk, Poland, 13-15 June 2019

Film as Social/Cultural Manifesto in Contemporary Hungarian Cinema
Media Tactics and Engagement –The NECS 2018 Conference
University of Amsterdam – Vrije University, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 27-29 June 2018

East-European bodies, East-European spaces (Jan P. Matuszynski: The Last Family, Cristi Puiu: Sieranevada)
Contact Zones: Transnational Encounters, Dialogues and Self-Representation in Contemporary Eastern European Literature, Cinema, and Visual Culture – International Conference
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 28-30 September 2017

Authorship and self-reflexivity in Taiwan cinema: Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang
The Poetics of Asian Cinemas – 12th ACSS Conference
Lancaster University, England, 10-12 July 2017

Corporeality, Space, and Speed: The Body as Transmedia Object in Tsai Ming-liang’s “The Walker Project”
Sensibility and the Senses: Media, Bodies, Practices – The NECS 2017 Conference
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Paris, 29 June – 1 July 2017

Embodied History: Symbolic use of bodies in the cinematic representation of Korean history
Film and History: The Korean Example – International Conference
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, 5-6 November 2015

The Phenomenology of Trauma: Sensual Aspects of Son of Saul
The Real and the Intermadial – XVI. International Film and Media Studies Conference in Transylvania
Sapientia University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 23-24 October 2015

Representation of historical memory through sport in Hungarian cinema
Archives of/for the Future – The NECS 2015 Conference
University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland, 18–20 June 2015

Social Network Sites and Social Science Research
Europe and Media – Research Conference and Workshop
Istituto Storico Parri, Regione Emilia-Romagna Assemblea Legislativa, Bologna, Italy, 28-29 November 2014

Remembering Socialist Bodies: Picturing the body in Hungarian cinema after the fall of communism
Screen Memories: Depictions of State Socialism and 1989 in Screen Media – Film Festival & International Conference
Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 20–26 November 2014

Carnal Connections: Body and Intermediality in Early Film Theory
Figurations of Intermediality in Film – XV. International Film and Media Studies Conference in Transylvania
Sapientia University, Cluj-Napoca, 24–25 October 2014

Painful Crisis – South Korean Cinema and the National Divide
International Conference on Crisis in Film and Visual Media
Vilnius University, Contemporary Art Centre, Lithuanian Film Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, 19–20 September 2014

Nostalgia and archival footage in contemporary Hungarian documentary (Gábor Zsigmond Papp: The Life of an Agent)
The Documentary Film of East and Central Europe Conference
Department of Film, Television and New Media, Adam Mickiewicz University – CK Zamek Poznan, Poland, 21 November 2013

The Return of the Secret Agent: Socialist Secret Agents and Informers in Contemporary Hungarian Cinema
Medial Politics – Political Media – The NECS 2013 Conference
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 20–22 June 2013


Professional Activities and Affiliations

Member of the FIPRESCI Jury at the 29th Busan International Film Festival (2024)
Member of the FIPRESCI Jury at the 46th Göteborg Film Festival (2023)
Member of the FIPRESCI Jury at the 43rd Hong Kong International Film Festival (2019)
Member of the Asian Cinema Studies Association (2017- )
Member of the FIPRESCI Jury at the Golden Horse Film Awards, Taiwan (2016)
Member of the Czech Society of Film Studies (Ceská Spolecnost Pro Filmová Studia) (2011– )
Member of NECS – European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (2007–)
Member of MÚOSZ (National Association of Hungarian Journalists) and FIPRESCI (The International Federation of Film Critics) (2000–)
Member of the preliminary jury of the Hungarian Film Week (2005, 2008)
Member of the International Jury, Jihlava Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic (2005)
Editor and publisher’s reader of the Hungarian edition of Thomas Elsaesser’s New German Cinema (Budapest: Palatinus Press, 2004)