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Anikó Imre is a Professor of Cinematic Arts in the Division of Cinema and Media Studies and a member of the faculty advisory board in the Interdivisional Media Arts and Practice (iMAP) Division. She works in comparative media studies and global communication, with a focus on (post)socialist media industries and cultures in relation to the politics of popular culture, digital surveillance and identity. Imre is the author or (co-)editor of seven books, including the monographs TV Socialism (Duke UP, 2016) and Identity Games: Globalization and the Transformation of Media Cultures in the New Europe (MIT Press, 2011) and, most recently, the collection Off White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (with Catherine Baker, Bogdan Christian Iacob and James Mark, Manchester University Press, 2024). Imre co-edits the Palgrave book series Global Cinemas and sits on the boards of  the journals Global Media and Communication, Television and New Media, VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies, and global-e: Twenty-First Century Global Dynamics, among others. She’s the recipient of the inaugural Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship, and a Mellon Mentoring Award for mentoring graduate students from the University of Southern California. Imre's recent work examines the ubiquity, limits and possibilities of political storytelling and worldbuilding in media cultures dominated by 'entrepreneurial authoritarianism.' The project has been supported by a senior research Fulbright fellowship, a Central European University Institute of Advanced Studies fellowship, a National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) research grant, a Visiting Faculty Fellowship at the Department for Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University, Stockholm, and a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship.

RECENT ARTICLES

“Midsommar and the Production of White Fantasy.” In White/Not White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race. Eds. Catherine Baker, Aniko Imre, Christian Iacob Bogdan, and James Mark, Manchester University Press, 2024: 252-274.

“Illiberal White Fantasies and Netflix’s The Witcher.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, published online in January, 2023.

“Spy from the Sky: From Big Brother to Big Data.” Remapping Cold War Media: Institutions, Infrastructures, Networks, Exchanges. Eds. Alice Lovejoy and Mari Pajala, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022. Republished in University of Pennyslvania Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Scholarly Commons.

“Race and TV in European Television.” (With Sudeep Dasgupta). VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, themed issue on “Race and Europe’s TV Histories.” November 2021.

"HBO’s E-EUtopia.” Media Industries 5.2 (2018), special section on “Global Internet Television.”

BOOKS:

Off White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (co-editor, Manchester UP, 2024)

TV Socialism (Duke University Press, 2016)

A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas (editor, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)

Popular Television in Eastern Europe During and Since Socialism (co-editor, Routledge, 2012)

Identity Games: Globalization and the Transformation of Post-Communist Media Cultures (MIT Press, 2009)

Transnational Feminism in Film and Media (co-editor, Palgrave MacMillan, 2007)

East European Cinemas (editor, Routledge, 2005)

Off-White (editor, Manchester University Press , 2024)