Professor
Ioan POP-CURȘEU
ioan.pop-curseu@ubbcluj.ro
habilitation: 4209/10.06.2015
Phd. students in internship: 2
Linkuri spre profiluri academice:
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=ro&user=sUi0StkAAAAJ
Web of Science:
https://ww.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/AAL-2499-2021?SID=EUW1ED0EAAALsslGhgOgS5SfgqD86
ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8768-0224
Research Gate:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ioan-Pop-Curseu?ev=hdr_xprf
Academia.edu:
https://ubbcluj.academia.edu/IoanPopCur%C5%9Feu
Ioan Pop-Curşeu is a professor at the Faculty of Theatre and Film of UBB. He defended his first doctoral thesis at the University of Geneva in 2007 (“From the Hyperbolic Man to the Impossible Text: Theatricality, Theatre(s), Drafts of Plays in Baudelaire”) and the second at Babeş-Bolyai University in 2011 (“Magic and Witchcraft in Romanian Culture”). In 2015, he defended his habilitation thesis in the field of Cinematography and Media, and in 2016 he became a member of the European Academy, section: Film, Media and Visual Studies. His research interests include film aesthetics, art criticism, and image theory, as well as the art and culture of the 19th century and modernity, and anthropological aspects of magic and witchcraft.
He has published several books: “The Left Doesn’t Know What the Right is Doing. Two Essays on the Floundering of Critical Thinking” (2004), “Baudelaire, Plural” (2008), “Vasile Bologa (1859-1944), Monographic Study” (2010), “Magic and Witchcraft in Romanian Culture. History, Literature, Mentalities” (2013), “Manual of Aesthetics” (2014), “The Iconography of Witchcraft in Romanian Religious Art. Essay on Visual Anthropology” (2020, in collaboration with Ștefana Pop-Curșeu). He has also published numerous articles, especially in the field of film studies, as well as essays on literary criticism or anthropology.
He coordinates the Cinemag collection (Tact Publishing House) and the CineMedia manual collection (Cluj University Press). Since 2013, he has been the president of the jury at the ClujShorts International Short Film Festival.
Topics and recommended reading for admission
Topics
Estetica și teoria filmului; Cromatica în cinematografie; Filmul și literatura; Filmul, emoția și cogniția;
Valoarea terapeutică a filmului; Genurile de film; Cinematografia experimentală
Recommended Reading
Barnett Daniel, Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema. The Musical Poetry of Motion Pictures Revisited, New York & London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
-Branigan Edward, Tracking Color in Cinema and Art. Philosophy and Aesthetics, New York and London, Routledge, 2018.
–Brinckmann Christine N., Color and Empathy. Essays on Two Aspects of Film, Amsterdam University Press, 2015.
-Boggs Joseph M., Petrie Dennis W., The Art of Watching Films, New York, McGraw-Hill, 2008.
-Bordwell David, Thompson Kristin, Smith Jeff, Film Art. An Introduction, Eleventh edition, New York, McGraw-Hill, 2017.
-Budd Malcolm, The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature, Oxford University Press, 2005.
-Căliman Călin, Istoria filmului românesc (1897-2010), Contemporanul, 2011.
-Deleuze Gilles, Cinema 1. Imaginea-mişcare, Traducere Ştefana şi Ioan Pop-Curşeu, Notă asupra ediţiei Ioan Pop-Curşeu, Revizie şi postfaţă Bogdan Ghiu, Cluj-Napoca, Tact, 2012.
-Deleuze Gilles, Cinema 2. Imaginea-timp, Traducere Ştefana şi Ioan Pop-Curşeu, Notă asupra ediţiei Ioan Pop-Curşeu, Cluj-Napoca, Tact, 2013.
-Jarvie Ian, Philosophy of the Film. Epistemology, Ontology, Aesthetics, Routledge, 1987.
-Misek Richard, Chromatic Cinema. A History of Screen Color, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
-Pramaggiore Maria, Wallis Tom, Film. A Critical Introduction, Fourth Edition, Laurence King Publishing, 2020.
-Shimamura Arthur P. (ed.), Psychocinematics. Exploring Cognition at the Movies, Oxford University Press, 2013.
-Thomson-Jones Catherine, Aesthetics and Film, London & New York, Continuum, 2008.
-Wassmann Claudia (ed.), Therapy and Emotions in Film and Television. The Pulse of Our Times, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015..
