Elated that our co-authored article with Anna Mártonfi (“‘Artistic Genius’: Celebrity auteur-directors after MeToo between Hollywood and Central Eastern Europe”) remains relevant. Link to article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Shame on Scorsese. Never liked him or his films, but this underscores the narcissism that underpins his persona as the ne plus ultra of American film auteurs. AI is useful to him because it permits greater fidelity in realizing his vision, further reducing the agency of his collaborators. Piss off.

Extraordinary shamlessness from Szabó: the lesson of my films is to steer well clear of power, but also, I've never had to worry about where financing for my films comes from. The latter is true, because he never did as he preaches. hvg.hu/360/20260605...

Szabó István: Jó messzire kell kerülni a hatalomtól, erről szólnak a filmjeim

Szabó István ötmilliárd forintos magyar támogatásból, összesen tízmilliárd forintból rendez filmet Ralph Fiennesszal és Viggo Mortensennel a főszerepben, de állítja: ő azt sem tudja, mennyi volt a köl...

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All good things must come to an end - thank you to all who have made #BAFTSS2026 at the Marriott Bournemouth very special. Profound thanks to our outgoing Chair, Gábor Gergely, for his robust stewardship of the association over the last few years 👏 #baftss #conference #filmstudies

In a sector under attack - from govt refusal to fund HE; KPI- and cuts-obsessed VCs; plagiarism engines; culture warriors - mutual support, sharing of experience and collaboration are more important than ever. Please consider participating in this important @baftss.bsky.social scheme in either role.

BAFTSS@baftss.bsky.social · 10mo ago

BAFTSS continues to run its Early Career Mentoring Scheme, which has been invaluable to helping ECRs in this increasingly precarious sector. This is a call for new mentors and mentees to take part in the scheme! For more info: www.baftss.org/early-career... #baftss #earlycareermentoringscheme

How does Hollywood separate the art from the “cancelled” artist after #MeToo and how does it use Eastern Europe for the operation? To find out, read our article co-authored with Anna Mártonfi, in Celebrity Studies. (Link gives free access to the first 50 viewers) www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JKJ8U...

‘Artistic genius’: celebrity auteur-directors after #MeToo between Hollywood and Central Eastern Europe

An important ramification of the #MeToo movement has been its (re-)invigoration of debates about the cultural positions of arthouse cinema’s ‘problematic’ directors. While a somewhat peripheralised...

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Gábor Gergely@ggergely.bsky.social · last yr.

Looking forward to giving a research paper in York tomorrow with my long-time collaborator @havasjulia.bsky.social on East-West relations, popular media, the "Hungarian GoT" Hunyadi, nutty Cold War reprise The Gorge and think pieces which posit Orbán's Hungary as originator of Western illiberalism.

Most people seem to think that "teaching" is the getting up in front of the class and talking part (or maybe any 1-on-1 assistance). Everything else is dismissed as busywork. But in my 20ish years experience, the stuff highlighted below that you're encouraged to automate is TEACHING.

Hypervisible@hypervisible.blacksky.app · last yr.

Back to school during peak ai hype seems grim. www.rit.edu/teaching/eve...

Great article by @zsolt.bsky.social and B. Stanley. As I've been trying to say also, illiberalism in "Eastern Europe" has never been unrelated to "the West" or "anti-Western." Also because, as Z and S show, the West isn't what it used to be. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Farewell to the liberal consensus: the intellectualisation of political projects in Poland and Hungary - European Political Science

The article investigates the intellectual foundations of the political projects led by Jarosław Kaczyński and Viktor Orbán. We demonstrate that next to homegrown populist and traditionalist ideas, the...

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Really looking forward to delivering this paper on a fascinating film that sunk without a trace with the brilliant @havasjulia.bsky.social as part of Friday's Genre Hybridity panel @baftss2025.bsky.social

JJúlia Havas@havasjulia.bsky.social · 2y ago

How can a little-known French Hitchcock pastiche help us rethink the ideology of the Holocaust drama? Come to our @baftss2025.bsky.social paper, presented with @ggergely.bsky.social on the "Genre Hybridity" panel on Friday, to find out. #BAFTSS2025

How can a little-known French Hitchcock pastiche help us rethink the ideology of the Holocaust drama? Come to our @baftss2025.bsky.social paper, presented with @ggergely.bsky.social on the "Genre Hybridity" panel on Friday, to find out. #BAFTSS2025

Call for papers: Television and New Media Special Issue “Imagining US in Europe: Europeanness in Contemporary American Prestige TV”  https://cstonline.net/call-for-papers-television-and-new-media-special-issue-imagining-us-in-europe-europeanness-in-contemporary-american-prestige-tv/

Our #CFP for the TV & New Media special issue “Imagining US in Europe: Europeanness in Contemporary American Prestige TV”, co-edited with @ggergely.bsky.social and @victoriapistivsek.bsky.social, is out. Abstracts due 25 April, further details here: cstonline.net/call-for-pap...

Call for papers: Television and New Media Special Issue “Imagining US in Europe: Europeanness in Contemporary American Prestige TV”

Co-editors: Gábor Gergely, Júlia Havas, Victoria K. Pistivsek What is “Europe”? The term is far from self-evident. The emerging canon of Eastern European decolonial sociological scholarship shows that...

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We have written to the Secretary of State for Education to call on the Government to take urgent action to prevent mass layoffs and resolve the funding crisis in the sector. Our letter in full: www.baftss.org/education-se...

Letter to Education Secretary - 4 February 2025

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Disappointing to see Owen Jones invoking spectre of Hungary as what awaits the US. Lazy & entirely false. Orbán isn't the OG, Hungary isn't patient zero. Orbán & his illiberalism were produced in decades-long interactions with, inside, outside & on margins of 'the West' (& the USSR/Russia et al).