Tamar Hanstke

Tamar Hanstke is a first-year PhD student in Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. She previously received her Bachelor of Arts Honours in Film Studies and her Master of Arts in Cinema and Media Studies from The University of British Columbia, where she published her thesis "What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Genre Film?: A Case for the Cinephilm as Subgenre". Tamar's research interests include star studies, queer film, animation and genre film, and her current work at UofT focuses on the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of representing mental health in contemporary film. Tamar previously served as the graduate student representative for the Film and Media Studies Association of Canada, and as the editor-in chief for The University of British Columbia's film journal Cinephile.

Selected Work

• "What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Genre Film?: A Case for the Cinephilm as Subgenre." MA Thesis. The University of British Columbia, 2023. .
• "Film Review of Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO (2022)." Cinephile 17.1, 2023.
• "Sweet Smell of Censorship: The Artistic Productivity of the Censor-Auteur Relationship in Classical Hollywood’s Film Noir Cycle." Stream: Interdisciplinary Journal of Communication 14.2, 2022.
• "Film Review of Sean Baker's Red Rocket (2021)." Cinephile 16.1, 2022.
• "Lightning in a Bottle in Triplicate: Complicating Originality Conventions in Star Studies." Canadian Journal of Undergraduate Research, 2021.

Awards

• Congress Graduate Merit Award, 2023
• Film Studies Association of Canada Graduate Student Essay Prize, 2022
• SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship Master's Award, 2021
• The University of British Columbia's AUSxURO Arts Undergraduate Research Award, 2021
• Mark Harris Memorial Scholarship in Film Studies, 2020