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 author of Contemporary Romanian Cinema: The History of an Unexpected Miracle (2013) and of Meaning in Film: Relevant Structures in Soundtrack and Narrative (1991). I have co-edited Revisiting Film Melodrama (2014), New Perspectives in Sound Studies (2004) and La chanson dans les cinémas d’Europe et d’Amérique Latine 1960-2010 (2019). I have published widely on emotions and music in films, Romanian cinema (most recent chapters of The Global Auteur, 2016 and The and The New Romanian Cinema, 2019), the aesthetics of silent melodramas, the cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni. I am Series editor for Rethinking Cinema a bilingual collection published by Peter Lang.