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Biography
I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies at the University of Nottingham. I completed my PhD at Nottingham in 2016. I hold an MRes in Film and Television Studies, also awarded by the University of Nottingham, and an MSc in Multimedia Engineering, awarded by Nottingham Trent University.
Expertise Summary
My expertise is on contemporary European media industries and in Lusophone, Spanish and Latin American cinemas and film genres, as well as on dialogues between film and video art ("black box" and "white cube"). My other focus of research and teaching concerns the cultural impact of obsolete media technologies in contemporary screen cultures. I am particularly interested in negotiations between analogue and digital media technologies and formats, including (technological and cultural) obsolescence, and the ways these can help us rethink current debates around global media.
Teaching Summary
At the Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies, I currently convene and/or teach in the following modules:
- Reading Film and Television (CULT1029/CULT1028)
- Global Cinema (CULT3038)
- Interrogating Practice (CULT2019)
- Transnational Media (CULT2008)
- Researching Media and Culture (CULT2015/CULT2025)
- Dissertation (CULT3024)
Books
ReFocus: The Films of Pedro Costa. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2019.
De Luca, Tiago and Nuno Barradas Jorge (eds), Slow Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
Book chapters and journal articles
"Contextualising Pedro Costa's digital filmmaking", in Mariana Liz (ed.), Portugal's Global Cinema: Industry, History and Culture. London: IB Tauris, 2017, pp. 135-49.
"Memory and representation: Japanese terrorism in 'Distance' and 'United Red Army'", in Adriana Martins et al (eds), Mediations of Disruption in Post-Conflict Cinema. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 137-44.
"Living Daily, Working Slowly: Pedro Costa's In Vanda's Room", in Tiago de Luca and Nuno Barradas Jorge (eds), Slow Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016, pp. 169-79.
"Pedro Costa on the Island of the Dead: Distant Referencing and the Making of 'Casa de Lava'", in Adaptation, Volume 7, Issue 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 229-52.
"Thinking of Portugal, Looking at Cape Verde: Notes on Representation of Immigrants in the Films of Pedro Costa", in Rêgo, Cacilda and Marcus Brasileiro (eds), Migration in Lusophone Cinema, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp. 47-57.
"El 'nuevo castizo': estereotipos típicos en las películas de Torrente", in Nadia Lie, Silvana Mandolessi & Dagmar Vandebosch (eds), El juego con los estereotipos. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012, pp. 173-82.
"The Miracle of P Tinto (El milagro de P Tinto)", in Hortelano, Lorenzo J. Torres (ed.), Directory of World Cinema: Spain. London: Intellect, 2011, pp. 93-5.
"Mutant Action (Acción Mutante)", in Hortelano, Lorenzo J. Torres (ed.), Directory of World Cinema: Spain. London: Intellect, 2011, pp. 230-32.