# Anna Batori ( 1985 – ) ## Description Hungarian film scholar; cognitive and posthumanist film theory. ## Key Tags #theorist #academic #posthumanism #film-theory ## Essential Works - [[Posthumanism, Cognition, and Cyborg Spectatorship]] - argues contemporary digital blockbusters function as laboratories for posthuman cognition, transforming spectatorship into a cyborg mode via 4E cognition and "amalgamated aesthetics" - *Extreme Cinema in Eastern Europe* (2024) - study of extremity and transgression in Eastern European cinema ## Details Independent researcher working across cognitive film theory, posthumanism, and Eastern European cinema studies; writes and teaches on European and world cinema, modern film theory, and digitized narrative techniques. ### Concepts and Theories - [[Techno Posthumanism]] - develops posthumanist film theory through the framework of 4E cognition and "amalgamated aesthetics" in her account of cyborg spectatorship ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Collaborators %% none yet %% ### Institutional Affiliations and Associated Movements - Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca - Lecturer in Film Studies ## References ### Cited/Appears In %% none yet %% ### Primary Sources Bibliography Batori, Anna. *Posthumanism, Cognition, and Cyborg Spectatorship: Amalgamated Cinema*. Routledge, 2026. Batori, Anna. *Space and Place in Romanian and Hungarian Cinema*. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Batori, Anna. *Extreme Cinema in Eastern Europe*. 2024. ### Secondary Sources Bibliography %%MLA Annotated Bib of Important or relevant secondary citations and critical texts%%