Dalia Hatalova

Dalia Hatalova is a PhD candidate at the Cinema Studies Institute. Her SSHRC-funded doctoral research focuses on the influence of cinematic censorship and regulation on the aesthetics of moving images, examining the strategies developed to regulate and represent content deemed sexual, violent, or disruptive. She explores how these alterations have led to the development of a medium-specific visual language, which signifies the forbidden through ostentatious obscuration. In her prior work, Dalia has utilized film theory, gender studies, post-structuralism, and critical theory to analyze a range of popular media, including youth and children’s films, animation, digital subcultures, nature documentaries, and Czech and Slovak cinema.

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)