Publications

Journal Articles:

“Interrogating the Limits of Humanitarian Art: The Uncomfortable Invitations of Ai Weiwei.” Transnational Screens, vol. 13, no. 2 (2022). DOI: 10.1080/25785273.2022.2094613

“Introduction: Waste.” Spectator, vol. 42, no. 2 (Fall 2022): 5-8.

“Virtually Wandering the Migration Trail.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 61, no. 3 (Spring 2022): 183-188. Co-authored with Emma Ben Ayoun. DOI: 10.1353/cj.2022.0032

“Introduction: Humanitarian Immersions.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 61, no. 3 (Spring 2022): 154-159. Co-authored with Emma Ben Ayoun. DOI: 10.1353/cj.2022.0028

“Secrets, Surveillance, and Fragments: Some Contemporary Documentary Challenges to Post-Socialist Europe’s Regional Brand.” Apertúra: Film, Visuality, Theory. (Fall 2021). DOI: 10.31176/apertura.2021.17.1.14

“Titkok, megfigyelés és töredékek: a kortárs dokumentumfilmek a posztszocialista Európa regionális brandjére vonatkozó kihívásai.” Translated by Anikó Németh. Apertúra: Film, Visuality, Theory. (Fall 2021). DOI: 10.31176/apertura.2021.17.1.7

“Family B/orders: Hungary’s Campaign for the ‘Family Protection Action Plan.’” Feminist Media Studies, vol. 20, no. 2 (2020): 305-309, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2020.1720352

“On Bodily Absence in Humanitarian Multi-sensory VR.” Intermédialités: Historie et Théorie des Arts, des Lettres et des Techniques (Intermediality: History and Theory of the Arts, Literature, and Technologies), no. 34 (2019). Co-authored with Emma Ben Ayoun. DOI: 10.7202/1070876ar

“Digital Transience: Emplacement and Authorship in Refugee Selfies.” Media Fields Journal, no. 12 (2017): www.mediafieldsjournal.org/digital-transience/

“On the Fringe: Understanding Alternative and Subversive Media - Notes from the Editors.” Spectator, vol. 37, no. 1 (2017): 5-10. Co-authored with Emma Ben Ayoun. cinema.usc.edu/spectator/37.1/1_Zimanyi.pdf

“Frames and fragments of European migration.” Transnational Cinemas, vol. 7, no. 2 (2016): 118-134. Co-authored with Anikó Imre. DOI: 10.1080/20403526.2016.1217638

Edited Journals:

Waste. Special themed issue of Spectator, vol. 42, no.2 (Fall 2022).

Humanitarian Immersions. In Focus Dossier for Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 61, no. 3 (Spring 2022). Co-edited with Emma Ben Ayoun. muse.jhu.edu/issue/47754

On the Fringe: Understanding Alternative and Subversive Media. Special themed issue of Spectator, vol. 37, no. 1 (Spring 2017).
Co-edited with Emma Ben Ayoun. cinema.usc.edu/mediastudies/spectator/37.1spring2017.cfm

Film Criticism and Reviews:

Book Review - The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality and Arab Asylum Seekers in America by Rhoda Kanaaneh. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1-3. DOI: 10.1017/S0020743823001228

“Human Flow: Thinking with and through Ai Weiwei’s Defamiliarizing Gaze.” Visual Anthropology, vol. 32, no. 3-4 (2019): 377-379, DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2019.1637691

“The Production of Crisis: Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow.” Docalogue, July 1st, 2018. www.docalogue.com/july-human-flow/

“Seeing ‘Through’ the Wall: Palestine’s Al-Rowwad Outdoor Film Festival.” In Media Res. March 21st, 2016, mediacommons.futureofthebook.org

“Histories Absolved: Revolutionary Cuban Poster Art and the Muslim International,” Enclave Review, Issue 12 (Spring 2015): 11-12. enclavereview.org/histories-absolved-revolutionary-cuban-poster-art-and-the-muslim-international/

Interviews:

“Against Immersion: An Interview with Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol 61, no. 3 (Spring 2022): 189-194. Interview by Eszter Zimanyi and Emma Ben Ayoun. DOI: 10.1353/cj.2022.0033

“‘I set out to do everything I could to bring this idea to fruition’: Leila Jarman reflects on directing her first feature length documentary, Voice of the Valley.” Spectator 37, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 53-59. cinema.usc.edu/spectator/37.1/8_Zimanyi.pdf

“Loeterman’s Documentary on Palestine (1913): Seeds of Conflict.” Interview with Ben Loeterman and Elisha Baskin. Jadaliyya. October 9th, 2015. www.jadaliyya.com/Details/32565/Loeterman’s-Documentary-on Palestine-1913-Seeds-of-Conflict