cinema, culture & society

Andrés Bartolomé Leal is a Phd candidate in English Studies at the University of Zaragoza, where he obtained his degree on English Philology and a M.A. on Textual and Cultural analysis. His present research revolves around the concepts of globalization, transnationalism and space in the cinema of Roman Polanski. His other areas of interest include cosmopolitanism, representation, and film theory. ...
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PhD, English Studies (Film), University of Zaragoza (Spain), July 2018.PhD thesis: "A Better World? Cosmopolitan Struggles in Twenty-First Century Science Fiction Cinema". Supervisor: Prof. Celestino Deleyto.In my dissertation, I study how a variety of recent science fiction films (2000-present) use the extrapolative power of the genre to look at transnational social phenomena from a cosmopolitan ...
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Silvia Murillo is a Ph.D. Research Fellow in English and Film at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). Her current research interests include film and television in the context of transnationalism, cosmopolitanism and space and border theory. She holds a degree in English Philology and a Master’s Degree in Textual Analysis in Film and Literature Studies, which she completed writing her M.A. dissert ...
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Associate Professor of Film and American Studies at the University of Zaragoza. My current research interests include Race and Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Film Genres, Feminism, Transnational Cinema and Cosmopolitanism. At the moment I am trying to complete an ongoing project on female blondes in Hollywood cinema, which has already produced some papers and book chapters. I am also working on ...
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Research Fellow at the University of Zaragoza. At the moment I am conducting research towards a PhD in Film Studies within the Doctoral Programme in English Studies. My thesis explores the representation of border women in contemporary cinema. More specifically, I explore the links between the filmic representation of border women and the profound social and cultural changes that characterize our ...
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Associate Professor of Film Studies and English at the University of Zaragoza. My current research interests include Cosmopolitanism, Stardom, Transnationalism and Border Theory.   Recent publications: Books -The Multi-Protagonist Film. Oxford and Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. -Alejandro González Iñárritu. Co-written with Celestino Deleyto. Urbana, Chicago and Springfield: University of ...
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Luis M. García-Mainar is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, member of the research group "Film, culture and society" (http://ccs.filmculture.net) and leading researcher of the project “Film and crisis: social change and representation in the cinema of the new century” (Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, FFI2017-82312-P). His research has focused on Film Studies from an aesthetic and ...
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Lecturer at the Department of English Studies of the University of Zaragoza. In 2017 I completed my PhD thesis, entitled The Viral Screen: Viruses, Zombies, and Infectious Diseases in Post-Millennial Films, which defines and analyzes the emergent genre of epidemic movies from a multidisciplinary textual, sociopolitical, and philosophical perspective. My research interests include film genre theory ...
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Associate Professor at the Department of English Studies of the University of Zaragoza. My research centers on film genre and cultural studies. I am currently analyzing filmic representations of the economic crisis in contemporary transnational cinema. I am part of the research group “Film and crisis: social change and representation in the cinema of the new century”. Some of my recent publicatio ...
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Lecturer at the English Studies Department of the University of Zaragoza, where I teach Film Analysis and English to undergraduate students. My primary areas of interest include film, television and cultural studies. More specifically, my current research focuses on independent cinema and romantic comedy. I am a member of the research group "Film, culture and society" and the project “Film and cri ...
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Professor of Film and English Literature at the University of Zaragoza. My current research interests include Film Theory and Contemporary Cinema in the Context of Transnationalism, Border Theory and Cosmopolitanism, specifically “border films” and contemporary cinematic cities, as well as the exploration of space and place in the cinema. At present I am working in the development of a cosmopolita ...
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