23.01.2026
Pre-registration is mandatory online, on the 2bitsEDU platform before actual registration. The registration form (application) is printed, signed and submitted to the file. Authentication on the platform can be done by accessing the website www.unatc.ro, admission section 2026 – Doctorate, between May 01 and July 01, 2026.
According to international standards, there are two distinct directions of doctoral studies at UNATC: scientific (arts research) and professional-artistic (practice-based research).
The four research areas in which the doctorate can be completed are: AESTHETICS, THEORY, PEDAGOGY AND HISTORY OF THEATRE APPLIED THEATRE STUDIES, CINEMATOGRAPHY AND MEDIA INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES THEATRE/FILM/AUDIOVISUAL
The doctoral school of UNATC "IL Caragiale", in accordance with the specifics of the institution, operates in the academic-artistic sphere in the fields of THEATRE AND PERFORMING ARTS and CINEMA AND MEDIA.
The doctoral school is the oldest doctoral studies structure in Romania oriented towards these fields and confirms the existence and practice of a formidable doctoral experience. The doctoral school within UNATC has represented a model for other Romanian universities with an artistic profile, at the level of the third cycle of university studies, according to the recommendations of the Bologna Process.
In respect of the professional tradition of honing artistic mastery and of learning, fixing, researching and artistic creation, the pedagogy and corresponding university practice confirm the relationship and direct collaboration between the teaching staff and students in all cycles. The university system of individual guidance is preferred in the training of people dedicated to the performing arts, film and media and falls within the traditional, artistic, educational and formative methodologies that pursue excellence in the respective fields of reference.
The notion of research, in the sphere of arts, in the fields of THEATRE AND PERFORMING ARTS and CINEMA AND MEDIA, is inextricably and organically linked to the act of artistic creation and contains profound aspects of a creative nature, including in the bordering sectors of the artistic process, respectively in the areas of thought, study and theoretical investigation. The doctoral approach within UNATC "IL Caragiale" directly involves the research and artistic creation side. Artistic creation, in turn, directly involves a continuous and maturely assumed research approach.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Online pre-registration: May 01 - July 01, 2026
REGISTRATION: June 29 – July 01, 2026, between 10:00 a.m. and 14:00 p.m.
Registration fee: 500 lei
Contest development: July 03 – 08, 2026
STAGE I
ADMINS/REJECTS
Friday, 03 July 2026, 11:00
Test 1 – oral
English language
STAGE II
SCORES FROM 1 TO 10
Monday, July 06, 2026, 10:00 AM
Test 1 – written
Assessment of fundamental knowledge, based on the mandatory bibliography*
Tuesday, July 07, 2026, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Appeals
Wednesday, July 08, 2026, 10:00 AM
Test 2 – oral
Support for the research project submitted upon registration. Interview.
Required bibliography
for Trial 1, Stage II
*Cinema and media field
- Baudrillard, Jean – Simulacra and Simulation – Idea Design&Print Cluj Napoca, 2008
- Bazin, André – What is cinema?, vol. 1 – UNATC Press, Bucharest & Polirom, Iași, 2022
- Bazin, André – What is cinema?, vol. 2 – UNATC Press, Bucharest & Polirom, Iași, 2022
- Benjamin, Walter – The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technical Reproducibility (fifth version) – Tact Cluj-Napoca, 2015
- Flusser, Vilem – For a philosophy of photography – Ideea Design & Print Cluj-Napoca, 2003
- Manovich Lev – The Language of the New Media – The MIT Press Cambridge Massachusetts, London England, 2001
- Rodowick, David N. – The Virtual Life of Film – Harvard University Press Cambridge Massachusetts, London England, 2007
- Sobchack, Vivian – Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture – California University Press, Los Angeles, London, 2004
- Sontag, Susan – Against Interpretation – Vellant, Bucharest, 2016
General bibliographic references
*Cinema and media field
- Arnheim, Rudolf Art and visual perception – Polirom Publishing House, Iași, 2011
- Aumont, Jacques The Image – Ed. British Film Institute, London, 1997
- Barthes, Roland History of shows – Pleiades Publishing House, Paris, 1965
- Barthes, Roland Reflections on Photography – Ed. Hill and Wang, New York, 1981
- Bazin, André – What is cinema? vol. 1: Ontology and language Published by UNATC Press, Bucharest, 2014
- Baudrillard, Jean Simulacra and simulation – Ideea Design & Print Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2008
- Besancon, Alain The forbidden image – Humanitas Publishing House, Bucharest, 1996
- Birringer, Johannes – Performance, Technology and Science-Paj Publication, 2008
- Bordwell, David & Carroll, Noel (edited by) – Post-theory. Reconstructing Film Studies – Ed. The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1996
- Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin Film Art. An Introduction (eighth edition) – Ed. McGraw Hill, New York, 2008
- Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin Film History. An Introduction (second edition) – Ed. McGraw Hill, New York, 2003
- Carabaț, Dumitru Film typology studies – PRO Foundation Publishing House, Bucharest, 2000
- Carroll, Noel (publisher) – Theories of Art Today – Ed. The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 2000
- Carroll, Noel Theorizing the Moving Image – Ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996
- Carroll, Noel Art in Three Dimensions – Ed. Oxford Univ Press, Oxford, 2010
- Cavell, Stanley The World Viewed, Reflections on the Ontology of Film – Ed. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1979
- Ciulei, Liviu With Thoughts and Images – IglooProfil Publishing House, Bucharest, 2009
- Cousin, Mark The Story of Film – Ed. Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 2004
- Dalle Vache, Angela Cinema and Painting, How Art is used in Film – Ed. University of Texas Press, 1996
- Damian, Laurentiu Documentary film: About the documentary… something more – Technical Publishing House, Bucharest, 2003
- Deleuze, Gilles Cinema I. The moving image – Tact Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2012
- Deleuze, Gilles Cinema II. The time-image – Tact Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2013
- Dudley, Andrew Film in the Aura of Art – Ed. Princeton University Press, 1984
- Duma, Dana History of Romanian animated film (1920-2020) – Romanian Academy Publishing House, Bucharest, 2020
- Elsaesser, Thomas European Cinema Face to Face with Hollywood – Ed. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2005
- Epstein, Jean The Spirit of Cinema – Ed. Jeheber, Paris, 1955
- Epstein, Jean Writings on cinema, Vol. 1 – Ed. Cinema club/Seghers, Paris, 1974
- Eisenstein, Sergei The Film Sense - Ed. Faber Faber and Faber, London, 1986
- Field, Syd – Screenplay – Delta, 2005
- Flusserl, Vilem For a philosophy of photography – Ideea Design & Print Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2003
- Gillaine, Anne – Le cinéma selon Truffaut – Flammarion Publishing, Paris, 1988
- Gorzo, Andrei & State, Andrei (coord.) – The Politics of Film. Contributions to the Interpretation of Contemporary Romanian Cinema – Tact Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2014
- Gorzo, Andrei & Filippi, Gabriela (coord.) – The film of transition. Contributions to the interpretation of the Romanian film of the “nineties” – Tact Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2017
- Groys, Boris In The Flow – Ed. Verso Books, London, 2016
- Iliesiu, Marilena The story of the story in Romanian film (1912-2012) – Polirom Publishing House, Iași, 2013
- Jameson, Frederick The Cultural Turn. Selected Writings on the Postmodern 1983-1998 - Ed. Turn, London and New York, 1998
- Kracauer, Siegfried Theory of Film – Ed. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 1986
- Levison, Louise Filmmakers and Financing – Published by Focal Press, Boston, 2004
- Lipovetsky, Gilles & Serroy, Jeans Global screen – Ed. Polirom, Iași, 2008
- Littera, George Marginals to Dovzhenko's poetics, Two or seven arts – Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1970
- Littera, George Pages about the film – UNATC Press, Bucharest, 2012
- Mattelart, Armand & Mattelart, Michelle History of communication theories – Polirom Publishing House, Iași, 2001
- McKee, Robert Stories – Filmtett Association Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2011
- Metz, Christian Essais sur la signification au cinéma – Ed. Klincksieck, Paris, 1975
- Metz, Cristian The imaginary signifier – Ed. Méridiens-Klincksieck, Paris, 1991
- Metz, Christian Psychoanalysis and Cinema. The Imagery Signifier - Ed. Macmillan Press, London, 1983
- Mitry, Jean Cinema Aesthetics and Psychology – Ed. Universitaires, Paris, 1963
- Naremore, James Acting in cinema – Tact Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2018
- Nichols, Bill Introduction to Documentary – Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2001
- Panofsky, Erwin Meaning in the Visual Arts – Anchor Books, 1955
- Pasolini, Pier Paolo The Cinema of Poetry – Cahiers du cinema, 1965, no. 14, in CDC no. 6, 1966
- Pintile, Lucian Junk – Nemira Publishing House, Bucharest, 2017
- Potra, Florian Cinematic voices and vocations – Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1979
- Potra, Florian Profession: Film – Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1979
- Rosenbaum, Jonathan Essential Cinema. On the Necessity of Film Canons – Ed. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 2004
- Sartori, Giovanni Television imbecility and afterthought – Humanitas Publishing, 2005
- Schrader, Paul Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer – Berkeley, California, 1972
- Sontag, Susan About photography – Vellant Publishing House, Bucharest, 2018
- Stam, Robert Film Theory. An Introduction – Ed. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 2000
- Steiner, George – After Babel – Univers Publishing, 1983
- Stoichita, Victor Ieronim The Sherlock Holmes Effect. Three cinematic intrigues – Humanitas Publishing House, Bucharest, 2013
- Tarkovsky, Andrei Sculpting in time – Nemira Publishing House, Bucharest, 2015
- Taylor, Richard & Christie, Ian (editors) – Inside the Film Factory – Ed. Routledge, London and New York, 2005
- Turcus, Claudiu Against Memory. From Socialist Aestheticism to the New Romanian Cinema – Eikon Publishing House, Bucharest, 2017
- Young, Collin The observation cinema, Mouton, Paris – The Hague, 1979;
- *** – Film Factfinder – Ed. Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd., Edinburg, 2008
- *** – La politique des auteurs – anthologie – Cahiers du Cinéma, Paris, 2001