Lóránt Stőhr (b. 1974) is a film historian, film critic and a habilitated associate professor at the University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest. His specialisms include film melodrama, documentary film, contemporary cinema, and the exploration of the cinematic representation of social and psychological phenomena.
Biography
Born in Budapest in 1974, Lóránt Stőhr is a film historian, film critic and a habilitated associate professor at the University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest. He graduated in Film Studies in 2001, and earned his DLA in Film and Video Art in 2007. In 2017, he received his PhD in Art Theory. In 2019, he won the prestigious Béla Balázs Award. He teaches film history, film theory,
and research methodology at the University of Theatre and Film Arts. Since 1999, he has been writing film reviews for the Hungarian weekly Élet és Irodalom.
His research has taken him to the British Film Institute and Calvin College as a Hungarian State (Eötvös) Scholar in 2003, 2010, and 2012. In 2015, as a Taiwan Fellowship grantee, he conducted film-historical research in Taiwan. He is also a member of the Humanities Research Group at Eötvös Loránd University’s Faculty of Education and Psychology.
Stőhr publishes widely in both Hungarian and international journals, writing director portraits and studies on melodrama, contemporary Hungarian features, documentary cinema, and the cinematic portrayal of social and psychological phenomena.
His books include:
Keserű könnyek. A melodráma a modernitáson túl (Bitter Tears: Film Melodrama Beyond Modernity)
Személyesség, jelenlét, narrativitás. Paradigmaváltás a kortárs magyar dokumentumfilmben (Subjectivity, Presence, Narrativity: A Paradigm Shift in Contemporary Hungarian Documentary)
He also edited the volumes A kortárs tajvani filmművészet (Contemporary Taiwanese Cinema) in 2020 and A hongkongi film (Hong Kong Cinema) in 2022.