Dr. Orit Fussfeld Cohen

Biography

Orit Fussfeld Cohen (PhD, Tel Aviv University) is an independent scholar and researcher specializing in the intersection of gender theory and new media studies. She is the author of The Digital Woman: Action Women in the Cyberage (2017). Formerly a lecturer in the Film and Television Department at Tel Aviv University, her research investigates how digital production technologies have enabled new forms of cinematic expression that transcend traditional physical and biological limitations.

A central pillar of her scholarship is the concept of the “Cineborg” (cinematic cyborg), a term she developed to describe a modern spectator whose subjectivity is shaped through a recursive mental fusion with the digital screen. This model redefines spectatorship as an autopoietic process of perception formation, where the spectator’s consciousness is conjoined with the virtual world of the film. Through a feedback-loop mechanism, the viewer becomes an embodiment of cinematic space, a process that effectively reshapes individual perception and social identity.

Research Interests

• Digital cinema and post-production technologies
• Gender representation in action films
• The relationship between video game aesthetics and cinema
• Spectatorship and digital image construction
• Virtual bodies and avatar theory in film
• Masculinity and heroism in the James Bond franchise
• The cultural context of digital filmmaking

Publications

Contact

For academic inquiries, please reach out via email: oritfc@gmail.com