Aniko Imre
· Assistant Professor of Cinematic ArtsUniversity of Southern California · Cinema and Media Studies Division
Active 1974–2025
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About
Aniko Imre, Ph.D., is a Professor of Cinematic Arts in the Division of Cinema and Media Studies and a member of the faculty advisory board in the Interdivisional Media Arts and Practice (iMAP) Division at the University of Southern California. Her work focuses on comparative media studies and global communication, with particular emphasis on (post)socialist media industries and cultures, the politics of popular culture, digital surveillance, and identity. She has authored or co-edited seven books, including the monographs TV Socialism and Identity Games: Globalization and the Transformation of Media Cultures in the New Europe, as well as the collection Off White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race. Imre co-edits the Palgrave book series Global Cinemas and serves on the boards of several academic journals. Her recent research examines political storytelling and worldbuilding in media cultures influenced by 'entrepreneurial authoritarianism.' She has received numerous fellowships and awards, including the Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship and a Mellon Mentoring Award. Her scholarly work has been supported by fellowships from Fulbright, Central European University, Harvard Radcliffe, and others.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Computer Science
- Law
- Artificial Intelligence
- Literature
- Development economics
- Art
- Gender studies
- Political economy
Selected publications
2016-06-03 · 59 citations
book1st authorCorrespondingIlliberal white fantasies and Netflix’s<i>The Witcher</i>
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies · 2023 · 25 citations
1st authorCorrespondingThis paper explores fantasy narratives that allow European nations to transcend the history of racial violence, and that connect Eastern and Western European manifestations of white innocence. This racialised connection highlights a relationship between the two Europes which hinges on mutual projections, which lives in narratives that have sustained schizophrenic national self-definitions in the eastern region and that have propped up the stability of national self-definitions within the western…
Streaming freedom in illiberal Eastern Europe
Critical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television Studies · 2019-05-16 · 15 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingThe article asks how we begin to assess the connections and mutual influences between television’s increasing globalisation facilitated by digital distribution platforms and the globalisation of crisis borne by the failure of the neo-liberal free market paradigm, which has resulted in the rise of nativist nationalisms, xenophobia and authoritarianism. I argue that, considering these contradictory developments as interconnected disrupts some of the epistemological paradigms inherited from the Col…
Mediated Shame of Class and Poverty Across Europe
Springer eBooks · 2021 · 7 citations
1st authorCorrespondingIndiana University Press eBooks · 2022-06-21 · 5 citations
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Frequent coauthors
- 108 shared
Greg de Cuir
Estonian Academy of Arts
- 108 shared
Pavle Levi
Université Libre de Bruxelles
- 36 shared
Bethany Bryson
James Madison University
- 36 shared
Ken Swee- Ney
New York University
- 36 shared
Aditya Shankar
Delft University of Technology
- 36 shared
Simrat Kaur Brar
- 36 shared
Rosie Thomas
- 36 shared
S. Redmond
The Asiatic Society of Mumbai
Education
Ph.D., Cinematic Arts
University of Southern California
Awards & honors
- Inaugural Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist…
- Mellon Mentoring Award for mentoring graduate students from…
- Fulbright fellowship
- Central European University Institute of Advanced Studies fe…
- National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NC…
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