Zoltán Varga

Film historian. He was born in Kecskemét in 1984. He graduated from the Faculty of Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University in 2008, where he also earned his doctoral degree in 2012. His research focuses on popular film in the 20th century, as well as the history and theory of animated film, with emphasis on Central and Eastern European animation, especially Hungarian animated film. From 2006 to 2018, he was a lecturer at three universities in Budapest and Szeged. Over the past twenty years, he has given lectures as a guest speaker more than a hundred times. His writings have been published in volumes of studies such as Gyula Macskássy (2013), The Horror Film (2015), The Science Fiction Film (2016), The Screen Meets the Couch (2018), and Folk Tales in Words, Writings and Images (2020). His books as co-author: Variants of Vampire Films (2009), Marcell Jankovics (2019), Hungarian Films from 1896 to 2021 (2021). His books as author: Hungarian Animated Film: Approaching Institutional and Formal History (2016), Animated Film in Kecskemét (2019), Cat and Mouse Plays: The Animated Films of Béla Ternovszky (2022), Portraits of Hungarian Animated Film Directors (2023). He is currently working on a monograph about Jan Švankmajer.