Dr. Nicoleta Bazgan is Associate Professor of French Cinema and Intercultural Communication at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) (on leave). Her published work focuses on women in on-screen Paris, cultural studies, gender and urban space, migration in European cinemas, and film stardom.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOK AND DIGITAL PROJECT
Parisiennes: City Women in French French Cinema. University of Liverpool Press. In Print.
Atlas of Cinematic Paris: http://aocp.irc.umbc.edu/
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
“Mapping Zazie’s Paris in Louis Malle’s Zazie dans le métro (1960),” Modern and Contemporary France, 27: 4, 2019, 425-440. https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2019.1652578
“The Eiffel Tower: A Parisian Film Star.” Paris in the Cinema. Beyond the Flâneur. Ginette Vincendeau and Alastair Phillips (Eds.), British Film Institute, 2018. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/paris-in-the-cinema-9781844578177/
“Girls in the City: Chantal Akerman’s I am hungry, I am cold/J’ai faim, j’ai froid (1984) and Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the Sixties, in Brussels/ Portrait d’une jeune fille de la fin des années 60, à Bruxelles (1994). Quarterly Review of Film & Video, 32 (3), 287-300. http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gqrf20/32/3
“Sophie Marceau” and “Virginie Ledoyen,” French Cinema in Close-up: La Vie d’un Acteur Pour Moi. Michael Abecassis (Ed.), Dublin: Phaeton, 2015. https://www.phaeton.ie/cinema.html
“Eastern Tales of Going West. Te Micropolitics of Migration in Cristian Mungiu’s Occident (2002).” European Cinema After the Wall: Screening East-West Mobility. Leen Engelen and Kris Van Heuckelom (Eds.). Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2013. 161-177.
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442229594/European-Cinema-after-the-Wall-Screening-East-West-Mobility“Icons of Modernity: Brigitte Bardot and the Cars in the Cinema of the 1950s and 1960s/ Icônes de la modernité: Brigitte Bardot et les voitures dans le cinéma des années 1950 et 1960.” Kino und Automobil/Cinema and Cars. Uta Felten and Kerstin Küchler (Eds.). Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2013. 139-150.
http://www.stauffenburg.de/asp/books.asp?id=1268“From Bardot to Binoche: the Pygmalion Myth and Artistic Collaboration.” Contemporary French Civilization. 36. 3. 2011. pp. 201-218.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2011.16“Female Bodies in Paris: Iconic Urban Femininity and Parisian Journeys.” Studies in French Cinema. 10.2. 2010. pp. 95-109.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1386/sfc.10.2.95_1
EDITED BOOK and EDITED JOURNAL ISSUES
Nicoleta Bazgan, Alain-Philippe Durand and Denis M. Provencher. “Contemporary French Civilizations,” Special double Issue of Contemporary French Civilization, Vol 45.3-4.2020. https://doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2020.15.
Nicoleta Bazgan, Alain-Philippe Durand and Denis M. Provencher. “Contemporary French civilizations: An introduction.”Contemporary French Civilization. Vol. 45, No. 3-4. 2020. pp. 263-269.
Denis M. Provencher, Sue Harris, and Nicoleta Bazgan. “Contemporary French Civilization at 40.” Contemporary French Civilization. Vol. 41 3-4, 2016. https://doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2016.23
Denis Provencher, Sue Harris, and Nicoleta Bazgan. “Introduction.” Contemporary French Civilization, 41(3-4), 2016, 359–363.
Uta Felten, Nicoleta Bazgan and Kristin Mlynek (Eds). Intermediality and Media Revolutions. Positions and Revisions/Intermedialität und Revolution der Medien. Positionen-Revisionen. Peter Lang, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-04843-8
Uta Felten, Nicoleta Bazgan and Kristin Mlynek. “Preliminary Notes.”Intermediality and Media Revolutions. Positions and Revisions/Intermedialität und Revolution der Medien. Positionen-Revisionen. Peter Lang, 2014. 9-18.
BOOK REVIEWS
Rev. of Paris Dreams, Paris Memories: The City and Its Mystique by Charles Rearick. Contemporary French Civilization. 37.1 (2012): 124-125.
Rev. of Le Mythe Deneuve. Une «star française» entre classicisme et modernité by Gwénaëlle Le Gras. Contemporary French Civilization. 36.1-2 (2011): 193-194.
Rev. of Cléo from 5 to 7 by Steven Ungar. The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 35. 1 (2010): 135-137.
COURSES TAUGHT
Cinema and the City (co-taught with Dr. John Rennie Short)
The Political Economy of Culture (graduate level)
Introduction to Intercultural Communication
French Contemporary Cinema; French Film Classics; Paris in French Cinema; Stars of French Cinema
Interconnections: Myth, Memory and French Culture(s)
Textual Analysis. Reading Culture: Words, Images, Music