Yvette Biro

Yvette Biro

Known for: Writing
Biography: 1930-04-03 (94 years old)

Biography

Yvette Biro is a Hungarian-American essayist, screenwriter (April 3, 1930, Budapest) 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, 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 Tisch School of the Arts (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.

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Known For
Writing

Birthday
1930-04-03 (94 years old)

Citizenships
Hungary

Also Known As
Yvette Biró, Yvette Bíró, Bíró Yvette

Awards
Parallel Culture Awards, Béla Balázs Award

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