Assistant Professor
Zsolt Pápai was born in Budapest in 1968. He graduated at the ELTE University of Budapest in Hungarian Literature and Linguistics and in History in 1992. He received his PhD degree in 2010. He writes and lectures on world cinema of the seventies and contemporary European cinema. His main field of interest is the Hollywood cinema of the sixties and seventies, in particular the period when classical Hollywood cinema was changed by the influence of European art movies. Apart from courses on film history he also lectures on genre history and typology and teaches film analysis and film criticism.
Areas of Teaching/ Courses Taught
- Film history in the 1970s and 80s
- Hollywood Renaissance and New Hollywood
- Film analysis
- Film criticism
- Introduction to film genres
Selected Publications
- Az akció lebontása. Objektív realista szüzsészerkesztési sémák és véletlenszerűség Robert Altman hetvenes években készült filmjeiben. (Action Deconstructed. Objective Realist Sujet-construction Schemas and Chance in Robert Altman’s Films from the 1970s). Metropolis (2009) no.2. pp. 10–26.
- Újrajátszás és áthangolás (Az európai klasszikus modernizmus és a kortárs iráni film. (Replay and Return. European Classical Modernism and Contemporary Iranian Film). Metropolis (2006) no.3. pp. 26–41.
- Hangnemváltás és kevert hangmen (The Mixed Tone in the Film History). Filmvilág (2010) no. 11. pp. 42–45.
Contact Details
Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies
Department of Film Studies
Eötvös Loránd University
Mail: Múzeum krt. 6-8., 1088 Budapest, Hungary
E-mail: tosokigyula _at_ hotmail com