Ádám is an experienced lecturer with over 300 lectures held since 2009. His topics range from film analysis and Japanese animation to mythology and Eastern spiritual paths. His lectures fall into two categories: broader topics examined using comparative examples, and in-depth analysis of specific works of film and animation, covering various topics in relation to the work in question.
Ádám’s venues have ranged from conventions and conferences through casual meetups of film enthusiasts to high school media classes and undergraduate university classes.
Central areas of research
– Story worlds in Hollywood cinema and Japanese animation
– Using myth and ritual in crafting stories and story worlds
Full list of lecture topics
Applied Mythology and Film
– Applying comparative mythology in the creation of contemporary popular culture
– Functions of mythology
– Jung-Campbell-Eliade strain of the mythology-as-psychology approach
– Trance, rite, initiation and what is left of them today
– The importance and role of popular youth culture in the East and the West
– Hollywood’s primitivization of Campbell’s monomyth and father quest
– Psychomythological dramaturgy in American popular film
Japanese animation
– Mythology, therapy and enlightenment in anime
– The active female hero in works of Miyazaki
– The inception, fulfillment and deconstruction of modern shojo (for-girls) anime
– The inception, fulfillment and deconstruction of modern shonen (for-boys) anime
– Anime as the cornerstone of Western youth culture
– Japanese animation as a cultural mode to process societal shifts
Cross-platform
– Interactive narrative in game development
– The peculiarities of developing web series
Society
– Simplificaton systems – structural similarities in models of New Age, Multilevel Marketing and conspiracy theory
– Lost generations in contemporary Hungarian society
– Culture consumption in Hungarian children during the fall of the Wall
Lectures and lecture series focusing on individual works
Works of Japanese animation — features (lecture length: 90-180 minutes)
Akira
The Cat Returns
Ghost in the Shell
Howl’s Moving Castle
Laputa – Castle in the Sky
Mononoke Hime
Nausicaä and the Valley of the Wind
Paprika
Pom Poko
Ponyo
Sailor Moon R Movie
Tonari no Totoro
Works of Japanese animation — series (nr. of lectures and length in brackets)
Cowboy Bebop (8 x 180 minutes)
Dragon Ball (1 x 90 minutes)
FLCL (2 x 180 minutes)
Hokuto no Ken (1 lecture, 90 minutes)
Kyoro-Chan (1 x 90 minutes)
Mawaru Penguindrum (5 x 180 minutes)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (6 x 180 minutes)
Paranoia Agent (3 x 180 minutes)
Revolutionary Girl Utena (9 x 180 minutes)
Rurouni Kenshin (1 x 90 minutes)
Serial Experiments Lain (4 x 180 minutes)
Vision of Escaflowne (5 x 180 minutes)
Works of Western animation
Beauty and the Beast
Cat City
Finding Nemo
The Little Mermaid
The Iron Giant
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea
Tangled
Therapy and mythology in Hollywood (lecture length: 120-180 minutes)
Alien
Avatar
The Breakfast Club
Contact
The Godfather
The Godfather, II.
Hair
Inception
The Matrix
Prestige
Source Code
Star Wars
Up in the Air
Wanted
The Wizard of Oz