Margulies, Ivone
Professor
E-mail: imarguli@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.650.3702
Ivone Margulies has a Phd. in Cinema Studies, New York University. Her academic research and interests include monologue, reenactment and forms of theatricality in cinema; the representation of everyday and duration in global realist cinema; cinema verité and psychodrama, French film, feminist film practice, Independent film and performance.
Ivone Margulies is the author of In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema (OUP, 2019) an exploration of the exemplary testimonial and phenomenological dimensions of in-person reenactment. Her Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday (Duke UP, 1996), a comprehensive study of the work of Chantal Akerman, is currently being translated into Chinese and has come out in translation in Brazil Nada Acontece: O cinema hiper-realista de Chantal Akerman (University of Sao Paulo Press, 2016) and in Spain Nada Ocurre: el hiperrealismo cotidiano en Chantal Akerman (editorial 8mm, 2018).
Margulies edited and introduced a collection of essays Rites of Realism: Essays on Corporeal Cinema (Duke UP, 2003) reassessing the theoretical relevance of realism in film globally. She is the co-editor of On Women’s Films: Across Worlds and Generations (Bloomsbury, 2019), a collection of original essays tuned to the continued provocation of feminist landmarks. The collection stretches the canon of feminist film demonstrating “the importance of women’s cinema as a strategic formation for women’s expression.”
Selected publications include book chapters, journal essays and catalogue texts, some reprinted in translation in French and Portuguese: “Dry Ground Burning’s Inward Turn: Self and Expression in Collaborative Fiction;” Journal of Film and Video, 2025; “Contagem e recontagem: o realismo plural da Filmes de Plástico,” catalogue, Mostra da Filmes de Plastico. Sao Paulo, Brasil 2024; “In the Thrall of Duras: India Song and Baxter Vera Baxter.” Liner notes Criterion DVD, 2023); “‘Et c’est tellement fatigant’ L’économie du ressassement chez Chantal Akerman.” Décadrages: Cinema `a travers les champs. (2022); “Filmes de Plástico’s Plural Realism,” Film Quarterly 74:2 (Winter.) “The Changing Landscape and Rohmer’s Temptation of Architecture,” in The Films of Eric Rohmer. Ed. Leah Anderst (Palgrave, 2014); “Bazin’s Exquisite Corpses,” in Opening Bazin: Postwar Film Theory and its Afterlives. Ed. Dudley Andrew with Hervé-Joubert Laurencin. (Oxford U. Press. 2011); “The Real In-balance in Jean Rouch’s La Pyramide Humaine” in Building Bridges: The Cinema of Jean Rouch. Ed. Joram Ten Brink. (Wallflower Press. 2007); “John Cassavetes: Amateur Director” in New American Cinema. Ed. Jon Lewis); “Re-enactment and A-filiation in Andrea Tonacci’s Serras da Desordem,”; Rohmer’s Triple Agent: Theatricality, Archive and the 1930s ; La Chambre Akerman: The captive as creator. “Sacha Guitry, National Portraiture and the Artist’s Hand” French Cultural Studies 16: 3 (2005.) Chronicle of a Summer (1960) as Autocritique (1959): A Transition in the French Left,” and catalogue essays: “Little Films (Filminhos) in Close-up” Anna Maria Maiolino, Fundacció Tapiés (2010); She also wrote “A Matter of Time,” liner notes for Criterion Collection DVD of Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080, Bruxelles.
Margulies has been invited to present her work in a number of academic institutions and international venues (Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne ; Indiana University, The Institutes of Media Studies and of Art History, Basel University, NFS, Clark institute.)
She gave the Key-scholar Lecture, British Film Institute/Kings College, London, March 8th, 2025 « Both, On the Contrary : Propositions on Akerman’s Aesthetics of Inconsistency. » ;Keynote lecture “Relatives: the Real/actor’s body in Reenactment cinema,” in “Bodies in Between: Corporeality and Visuality from Historical Avant-garde to Social Media” Babes Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca / Romania 2014. She was featured keynote in “Return of the Real: Cinema and Contemporary thought” International symposium, (Forum de Ciência e Cultura da UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, 2009.)
Margulies has organized and collaborated in number of screenings. At Anthology Film Archives and in conjunction with the launch of her most recent book she organized the series In Person Reenactment (reviewed in The New Yorker; NY Books; The New York Times; Film Quarterly; Cineaste)
At Hunter she has co-organized masterclasses with Pascal Bonitzer,Patricia Mazuy, Mathieu Amalric co-sponsored with Romance Languages; A day long event with Apichatpong Weeresathakul, an Interdisciplinary Masterclass with Chantal Akerman, sponsored by the Arts Across the Curriculum pilot initiative in 2012. At the Grduate center during her Mellon Fellowship on the topic of The Aftermath she organized The Trial: Stages of Truth. Interdisciplinary conference on the trial, and performance and Documenting Catharsis: a film series on War and Reckoning, CUNY Graduate Center.
She teaches undergraduate courses on French and Italian Cinema; the cinema of the 1970s and 1930s as well as Women and Film and Topics in Genre: Women films of the 1940s; Cassavetes, Akerman and Robert Bresson; Politics and Culture in the Interwar Years. At the MFA IMA at Hunter and at the Graduate Center she has taught on reenactment in cinema (Theatre, Art and FSCP); realism and cinema, theatricality in film and co-taught a course on Film and Art in the 1930s.