Yvette Biro

'''Yvette Biro''' (April 3, 1930, Budapest)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://clustrmaps.com/person/Biro-6v36g3|title=Pari Sara Shirazi, New York Public Records Instantly|website=ClustrMaps.com}}</ref><ref name="Szabo">{{cite book |last1=Szabo |first1=Istvan |title=The Cinema of Central Europe |date=2004 |publisher=Wallflower Press |isbn=9781904764205 |page=117 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0KhyA30EJiUC&dq=%22Yvette+Biro%22&pg=PA117 |access-date=12 January 2019}}</ref><ref name="Butler">{{cite book |last1=Butler |first1=Susan |editor1-last=Brittain |editor1-first=David |title=Creative Camera: Thirty Years of Writing |date=1999 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=9780719058059 |page=120 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_WK7AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22Yvette+Biro%22&pg=PA120 |access-date=12 January 2019 |chapter=Revising femininity? (September 1983)}}</ref> is a Hungarian-American essayist, screenwriter and Professor Emeritus at New York University Graduate Film School (NYU).

Her early books on the aesthetics of film were first published in her native Hungary, which became handbooks for film-schools in the country. Meanwhile, she worked on a dozen of prizewinning films with noted directors (Miklós Jancsó, Zoltán Fábri, Károly Makk). She was both the founder and the Editor-in-Chief of ''Filmkultura'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Filmkultúra |url=https://filmarchiv.hu/en/repository/film-culture-filmkultura |access-date=2025-04-02 |website=National Film Institute - Film Archive |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Magyar Nemzeti Digitális Archívum • A nyomtatott Filmkultúra archívuma |url=http://mandarchiv.hu/cikk/4703/A_nyomtatott_Filmkultura_archivuma |access-date=2025-04-02 |website=mandarchiv.hu}}</ref> the magazine of the Hungarian Film Institute and Film Archive.

In the mid-1970s, she was "offered" the chance to emigrate by the Hungarian authorities. After teaching at the Sorbonne in Paris, she moved to the US to teach at the Universities of Berkeley and Stanford, California. In 1982 she was hired as a professor then became Full Professor on the faculty of the [http://gradfilm.tisch.nyu.edu/object/BiroY.html Tisch School of the Arts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100614023754/http://gradfilm.tisch.nyu.edu/object/BiroY.html |date=2010-06-14 }} (Film and TV Graduate Division) at NYU where she worked until her retirement in 2007.

She has written books on film which have been translated into several languages. Her numerous essays have been published in professional magazines internationally – ''Film Quarterly'', ''Études Cinématographiques'', ''Performing Arts Journal'', ''Bianco & Nero'', ''Dædalus'', ''Millennium'', and ''The Village Voice'', as well as in online publications.

== Works == === Theory and criticism === *1982 - Profane Mythology: The Savage Mind of the Cinema, Indiana University Press<ref name="Beckwith">{{cite book |last1=Beckwith |first1=Stacy N. |editor1-last=Talens |editor1-first=Jenaro |editor2-last=Díez |editor2-first=Santos Zunzunegui |title=Modes of Representation in Spanish Cinema |date=1998 |publisher=U of Minnesota Press |isbn=9780816629756 |page=114 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ISzYmCHm_2gC&dq=%22Yvette+Biro%22&pg=PA126 |access-date=12 January 2019 |chapter=6. Seeing beyond the Delicate: Luis García Berlanga's Novio a la vista}}</ref> *2008 - ''Turbulence and Flow in Film'', Indiana University Press<ref name="Monaghan">{{cite book |last1=Monaghan |first1=Whitney |title=Queer Girls, Temporality and Screen Media: Not 'Just a Phase' |date=2016 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9781137555984 |page=116 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cj0GDAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Yvette+Biro%22&pg=PA116 |access-date=12 January 2019}}</ref>

=== Scripts === *1995 - ''Arrivals and Departures'' (film, unproduced) - winner of the European Script Fund Award *2003 - ''The Stone Raft'' (film) *2006 - ''Johanna'' (film) *2008 - ''Delta'' (film) - winner of the FIPRESCI Prize in Cannes *2010 - ''Tender Son'' *2009 - ''Judasevangelium'', with Kornél Mundruczó (opened at the Hamburg Thalia Theatre in September 2009) *2007/2008 - ''The Frankenstein Project'' (European tour including Brussels, Paris, Vienna)

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==External links== * {{official website|http://yvettebiro.com}} * {{IMDb name|nm0083745}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Biro, Yvette}} Category:American women screenwriters Category:Living people Category:Hungarian emigrants to the United States Category:Tisch School of the Arts faculty Category:1930 births Category:Writers from Budapest Category:21st-century Hungarian women