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Tarja Laine
Dr Tarja Laine is assistant professor of film studies at the University of Amsterdam and adjunct professor at the University of Turku, Finland. She is the author of Reframing Trauma in Contemporary Fiction Film (Lexington, 2023), Emotional Ethics of The Hunger Games (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), Bodies in Pain: Emotion and the Cinema of Darren Aronofsky (Berghahn, 2015), Feeling Cinema: Emotional Dynamics in Film Studies (Bloomsbury, 2011) and Shame and Desire: Emotion, Intersubjectivity, Cinema (Peter Lang, 2007). Her research interests include cinematic emotions, film aesthetics and film-phenomenology. In addition, she works as a visual artist, after graduating from Wackers Academy of Fine Arts (Amsterdam) in 2018.
Contact: University of Amsterdam, Turfdraagsterpad 9, 1012 XT Amsterdam, the Netherlands.