Dalia Hatalova

Dalia Hatalova is a PhD student at the Cinema Studies Institute. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Production from Simon Fraser University and a Master's degree in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Southern California, which led to her interest in combining artistic experimentation with theoretical research. In her previous work, Dalia explored digital and animated forms, youth and children's media, Czechoslovak cinema, and documentary television. Her SSHRC-funded doctoral research utilizes approaches from cinema studies and philosophy to examine the relationship between the film medium, censorship practices, and contemporary digital distribution.

Selected Work

• Hatalova, B. Dalia. “Technologizing Humans in the Information Economy: Computational Imagining of Human Cognition in Disney Pixar’s Inside Out (2015)”, Spectator, vol 44, no 1. 34-43.
• Hatalova, B. Dalia. “The Politics of Washed Bodies: Roma Women in Jiri Menzel’s Larks on a String (1969)” The Projector: A Journal of Film, Media, and Culture, Vol. 23 no. 2, Summer 2023.
• Hatalova, B. Dalia. “Pride is Dead, Long Live Pride: A Study of the Commodification of Identity Politics Through an Analysis of Matthew Warchus’ Pride (2014)” Gadfly Undergraduate Journal of Political Science, Vol. 1, Dec. 2021.

Awards

• SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (2023-2026)
• Ricki Lynn Blustein Endowment Fund Award (University of Southern California, 2022)
• Frank Volpe Endowed Scholarship (University of Southern California, 2021)
• Dean of Communication, Art and Technology Convocation Medal (Simon Fraser University, 2021)
• School for the Contemporary Arts Alumni Scholarship (Simon Fraser University, 2021)
• Simon Fraser University Open Scholarship (2020-2021)
• School for the Contemporary Arts Scholarship (Simon Fraser University, 2020)
• One World Scholarship - The Irving K. Barber British Columbia Scholarship Society (2019)