Author Paul Dobryden & Ervin Malakaj

Paul Dobryden & Ervin Malakaj

Paul Dobryden is an Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia. His book The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder was published in 2022 by Northwestern University Press. Ervin Malakaj is an Associate Professor of German Studies and affiliate faculty in the Centre for European Studies at the University of British Columbia. His book on Richard Oswald’s iconic Weimar-era queer melodrama Anders als die Andern was published in 2023 with McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Between Cineanthropology and Distraction: Revisiting Béla Balázs’ Visible Man at 100

Paul Dobryden & Ervin Malakaj

November 2024

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Béla Balázs (1884–1949) is known as the great theorist of the cinematic face. For the Hungarian writer and critic, film captured the expressivity and singularity of the human face in a way no other medium could...