Meta Mazaj

Undergraduate Chair of Cinema & Media Studies | Senior Lecturer in Cinema & Media Studies

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Fisher Bennett Hall 202

Meta Mazaj is a Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies at Penn. She has published on critical theory, Balkan cinema, new European cinema, film and nationalism. She is the author of National and Cynicism in Post 1990s Balkan Cinema (VDM Verlag, 2008), co-author, with Timothy Corrigan and Patricia White, of Critical Visions in Film Theory: Classic and Contemporary Readings (Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2011), and co-author, with Shekhar Deshpande, of World Cinema: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2018). Her recent courses include:  Global Film Theory, Global Genres, Transnational Cinema, Film Festivals, Cinema of the Balkans, Historical Film, American Independent Cinema.

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