dr. Melinda Blos-Jáni

Head of Department,
Assistant Professor

E-mail: blosmelinda@kv.sapientia.ro

Consulting hours: Wednesdays: 17-19.

Courses and seminars:

Universal History of Film I. - Early and Silent Cinema
Film Theory and Analysis I.
The History of Documentary Film
Universal History of Film V. - trends from the 1970's onward
Audiovisual Culture and New Media (MA)

Research interests:

visual anthropology, home videos, amateur films, documentary films, silent cinema, the modern silents, archival images, found footage films.

Researcher profiles: Academia.edu, Researchgate, googlescholar

Publications

Book:

A családi filmezés genealógiája. Erdélyi amatőr médiagyakorlatok a fotózástól az új mozgóképfajtákig. [The Genealogy of Home Movies. Transylvanian Amateur Media Practices from Photography to New Media] Societatea Muzeului Ardelean / Erdélyi Múzeum Egyesület, 2015. 232 pages. ISBN 978-606-739-028-5.

Edited books:

Belső képek. Dr. Hintz Györgyné Boros Ella (1855-1975) műkedvelő fényképész hagyatéka, ed. by Melinda Blos-Jáni. EME/EXIT kiadó, Kolozsvár. 2021. 212 p. ISBN 9786069091388, ISBN 978-606-739-186-2
Látható Kolozsvár. Orbán Lajos fotói a két világháború közötti városból. (The Visible Cluj. The Photographs of Lajos Orbán from the Interwar Period) Editura EXIT and Societatea Muzeului Ardelean/Erdélyi Múzeum Egyesület, Cluj-Napoca, 2018. 196 p. ISBN 978-973-7803-87-0, ISBN 978-606-739-112-1
Az atléta. 135 év atlétika 135 fényképen. (The Athlete. 135 of Athletics in 135 Photographs) Edited in collaboration with András Killyéni. Hiperborea Publishinghouse, Turda, 2019. ISBN 978-606-717-084-9

Essays and articles in English:

Uncovering in-betweens: On photochemical practices and handmade cinema. NECSUS 2021_#Solidarity. (Indexed DOAJ)
Photographic Passages to the Past in Eastern-European Nonfiction Films. In Caught In-Between. Intermediality in Contemporary Eastern European and Russian Cinema, ed. by Pethő Ágnes. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2020. 127–146.
Ephemeral History and Enduring Celluloid - Fictions about Romanian Film History, accepted for publication in the volume: The New Romanian Cinema. A Reader, edited by Christina Stojanova, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2019, 93–107.
Sensing History. On the Uses of Medium-Specific Noise in Eastern European Found Footage Films. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies, 2018. Vol. 15: 137–163. Indexed in: Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), etc.
Pátrání po ztracených obrazech: dějiny rumunského amatérského filmu z pohledu orální historie a vzdělávacích příruček. (Excavating missing pictures: the Romanian cine-amateur history through oral histories and educational handbooks) Iluminace. Journal for Film Theory, History, and Aesthetics 2016 vol. 28. no. 2. 40-62. (Journal accessible through the Scopus, EBSCO and ProQuest electronic databases).
Blos-Jáni Melinda: Children Addressing the Camera. Performing Childhood in Transylvanian Home Movies from the 1930s. Martor Nr. 20. 2015. 109-121.

Home Movies as Everyday Media- and Family Histories. From Amateur Photography to Filmmaking - from Celluloid Film to Video. In: Keszeg Vilmos (red.) A qui appartient la tradition? / Who owns the tradition? EME, Kolozsvár 2014. 136-145.

Home Movies as Everyday Media Histories. Approaching Home Made Imagery (as Old Media) in the Age of New Media. Panoptikum. Dokumentalizacje Nr. 12 (19). 2013. 121-131.

Men with the Movie Camera between 1945 and 1989. Domesticating Moving Image
Technology under Communism. Martor Nr. 18. 2013. 77-92.

The nomads of media- and family histories. Rethinking the moving images of families in the age of user-generated content. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae. Film and Media Studies, 2012. Vol. 5. 21-34.

In and Out of Context. On the Reality Effect and Evidentiary Status of Home Videos. Acta Universitatis Sapientiae. Film and Media Studies, 2009. Vol.1.149-166.

Is Silence Hereditary? Written Words and Acoustic Events in a Contemporary Silent Film: Esteban Sapir's La Antena (2007). In: Ágnes Pethő (ed.): Words and Images on the Screen. Language, Literature, Moving Pictures. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. 132-158. ISBN (10) 1-84718-843-5, ISBN (13) 97818847188434