Dominique Nasta
I am Full Professor of Film Studies at the Université libre de Bruxelles. I have chaired the Film Studies Department from 1991 to 2011 and was Visiting Professor at the Universities of Montréal (2013), Strasbourg (2015) and Buenos Aires (2019).
I am the first member to be elected in the cinematographic field at the Belgian Royal Academy (2022)
I have published widely on emotions and music in films, Romanian cinema, the aesthetics of silent melodramas, and the cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni. I am Series editor for Rethinking Cinema, a bilingual collection published by Peter Lang and I was a Principal Investigator of the EOS B-magic project.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
2024 Musical elements in three silent films by Jacques Feyder : Narrative Vectors or Emotional Catalysts?, in Phil Powrie, Claus Tieber, Anna Windisch (eds), New York, Springer, When Music Takes over in Film, 2024.
2023 Dominique Nasta & Hubert Bolduc-Cloutier, Coming to Terms with Music as Narrative Architecture: Jean Grémillon’s La Petite Lise and Daïnah la Métisse with Hubert Bolduc Cloutier, in Jeremy Barham (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era, New York, Routledge, 2023, p. 143-157.
2023 A Taste of Liberty Behind Closed Doors : Romanian Film Music before the Fall of Communism, in M. Baumgartner & E. Bockcowska (eds), Music, Authorship, Narration, and Art Cinema in Europe 1940s to 1980s, New York, Routledge, 2023.
2022 Dominique Nasta & Bart G. Moens, Religious Temperance Propaganda and Multimodal Aesthetics of Emotion: The Lantern Slide Set "Un poison mortel" and Early Film Adaptations of Emile Zola’s L’Assommoir, in Sabine Lenk and Natalija Majsova, Faith in a Beam of Light. Magic Lantern and Belief in Western Europe, 1860-1940, Turnhout, Brepols, 2022, p. 155-168.