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Júlia Havas @havasjulia.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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...

Screenshot from the review of Marilyn Manson’s Budapest concert published on Hungarian independent news site Telex. Heading: “The monster who doesn’t let himself be erased”.

Screenshot from the review of Marilyn Manson’s Budapest concert published on Hungarian independent news site Telex. A highlighted sentence translates as: “He may never have a place again in the mainstream music industry but in his own micro universe he’s still untouchable.”

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Júlia Havas @havasjulia.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Well if you’ve seen Deadloch three times there really is no reason to keep it. I assume you saw all the #FeministClassics over the years (Transparent, Mrs Maizel, Good Girls Revolt…)

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Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

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.

Screenshot from AI company Black Forest Labs website of Scorsese explaining how AI technology gives him greater control over his collaborators.

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Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

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...

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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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BAFTSS @baftss.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

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

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Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

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.

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Júlia Havas @havasjulia.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

“The interview request, sent with the calmness of the underdog, was not answered with the usual refusal (“thank you very much, but due to our client’s busy schedule, he has to say no”), but an invitation for a 15-minute phone interview.” 3/3

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Júlia Havas @havasjulia.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

“This is also important for our story because the previously inaccessible figure suddenly became accessible. Even for a market as small as Hungary. Something completely unexpected happened.” 2/3

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Júlia Havas @havasjulia.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Choice quotes: “At the time of the release of 2017's Wonder Wheel, Allen was still considered a respectable director by the moral standards of American showbiz, but by the time he finished his next film, A Rainy Day in New York, he had been swept away by #metoo.” 1/2

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Júlia Havas @havasjulia.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Didn’t mean for us to be THIS Cassandraesque but there we go: Hungarian news site HVG published a series of interviews with WA today, with the fan/journalist marvelling at his luck of getting to interview him four times,*thanks* to WA being “swept away” by MeToo (offering no context or explanation).

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Júlia Havas @havasjulia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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...

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‘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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Michael Black @mblack.us · 20/08/2025

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.

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Ivan Kalmar @ivan-kalmar.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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...

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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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Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

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

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Júlia Havas @havasjulia.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

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

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Júlia Havas @havasjulia.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

In the hope this helps you get out of bed: I set your Mabel Normand chapter as essential reading on my undergrad “Feminism on the Screen” module at the Uni of York. Students love your argument about the Chaplin anecdote & how it points to film authorship as a set of gendered/patriarchal practices.

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CSTonline @cstonline.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Call for papers: Television and New Media Special Issue “Imagining US in Europe: Europeanness in Contemporary American Prestige TV” cstonline.net/call-for-papers-telev…

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BAFTSS @baftss.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

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...

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Letter to Education Secretary - 4 February 2025

Constitution | Inclusivity Statement | Contact Us | Join BAFTSS / Sign In © British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS), 2021-4. Website maintained by Johnny Walker .

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Júlia Havas @havasjulia.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

To quote from Kimmy Schmidt: I understood all those words separately.

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Júlia Havas @havasjulia.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Right. And this fixing by the AI is reproduced in the way American gatekeepers adjudicate the authenticity and ethics of the mechanically produced sonic foreignness. So in a sense, the from-here critics and the AI perform similar acts of control over the foreign voice.

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Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

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).

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