Yvette Biro

Yvette Biro
Born(1930-04-03)April 3, 1930
DiedOctober 17, 2026(2026-10-17) (aged 96)

Yvette Biro (née Ungár; April 3, 1930 – October 17, 2026) was a Hungarian-American essayist and screenwriter who was Professor Emeritus at New York University Graduate Film School (NYU).

Life and career

Yvette Biro was born in Budapest on April 3, 1930.

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 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 New York University's Tisch School of the Arts (Film and TV Graduate Division). She worked there until her retirement in 2007.

She wrote 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.

Biro died on October 17, 2026, at the age of 96. She was predeceased by her husband, Attila Batár (1925–2022).

Works

Theory and criticism

  • 1982: Profane Mythology: The Savage Mind of the Cinema, Indiana University Press
  • 2008: Turbulence and Flow in Film, Indiana University Press

Scripts

References

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  3. ↑ "Filmkultúra". National Film Institute - Film Archive. Retrieved April 2, 2025.
  4. ↑ "Magyar Nemzeti Digitális Archívum • A nyomtatott Filmkultúra archívuma". mandarchiv.hu. Retrieved April 2, 2025.
  5. ↑ Archived 2010-06-14 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ "Meghalt Bíró Yvette". 24.hu. October 18, 2026. Retrieved October 18, 2026.
  7. ↑ Beckwith, Stacy N. (1998). "6. Seeing beyond the Delicate: Luis García Berlanga's Novio a la vista". In Talens, Jenaro; Díez, Santos Zunzunegui (eds.). Modes of Representation in Spanish Cinema. U of Minnesota Press. p. 114. ISBN 9780816629756. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
  8. ↑ Monaghan, Whitney (2016). Queer Girls, Temporality and Screen Media: Not 'Just a Phase'. Springer. p. 116. ISBN 9781137555984. Retrieved January 12, 2019.