Notes on Contributors

Jens Andermann teaches at the University of Zurich and is an editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. Publications include New Argentine Cinema (2015), The Optic of the State: Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil (2007; 2014), and Mapas de poder: una arqueología literaria del espacio argentino (2000). He has co‐edited several volumes on Latin American cinema, including La escena y la pantalla: cine contemporáneo y el retorno de lo real (2013) and New Argentine and Brazilian Cinema: Reality Effects (2013).

Michael Chanan is a documentary filmmaker and Professor of Film and Video at Roehampton University, London. His books include Cuban Cinema (2004) and The Politics of Documentary (2007). He has a range of special interests, including Latin American cinema, documentary, the film soundtrack, and the social history of music.

Enrique Colina began his career as a film critic for a number of Cuban newspapers and periodicals, moving on to direct the programme 24 por Segundo for Cuban Television. In the 1980s he made a number of documentary films and shorts; his debut feature Entre ciclones/Between Hurricanes was screened at the Critic’s Week of the Cannes Film Festival in 2003. He has been a senior lecturer at the Radio, TV and Film Faculty of the Instituto Superior de Arte in Cuba for over 20 years and has also served as head of the Documentary Film Department at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in San Antonio de los Baños. He has also had visiting positions at Toulouse’s Ecole Supérieure de l’Audiovisuel in Toulouse, Bordeaux’s Université Michel de Montaigne in Bordeaux, and Guadalajara’s Instituto de Cine de la Escuela de Arquitectura.

Joel del Río is a journalist, specializing in the area of arts criticism since 1994 for the newspaper Juventud Rebelde and a range of other publications. He has published on film and screen matters in Cahiers du Cinema (Spain), Cinémas d’Amérique Latine, and Sinergias del cine latinoamericano (among others). He has worked as a journalist at the ICAIC and has taught at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in San Antonio de los Baños and the Universidad de La Habana. His books include Latitudes del margen (2004), Los cien caminos del cine cubano (2009, co‐written with Marta Díaz), Melodrama, tragedia y euforia: de Griffith a Von Trier (2012), and El cine según García Márquez (2013).

Maria M. Delgado is Professor and Director of Research at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, and Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Modern Languages Research at the University of London. She has published extensively in the area of Spanish‐language performance and film and has served as a programme advisor on Spanish and Latin American film at the London Film Festival since 1997. She writes regularly for the leading film magazine Sight & Sound; her publications include 10 co‐edited volumes and two monographs.

Mar Diestro‐Dópido is a researcher and regular contributor to Sight & Sound – the monthly film magazine of the British Film Institute – as well as an experienced arts and media translator. Her book publications include a BFI Modern Classic on Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2013) and a forthcoming book on film festivals, built around her doctoral thesis which won the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland's Legenda prize for the best new thesis of 2014.

Tamara L. Falicov is Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and a core member of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film (2007) and Latin American Film Industries (forthcoming). She is the co‐editor, with Marijke de Valck, of the book series Framing Film Festivals for Palgrave Macmillan.

Charlotte Gleghorn is Chancellor’s Fellow‐Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and was postdoctoral researcher on the European Research Council project “Indigeneity in the Contemporary World: Performance, Politics, Belonging,” hosted at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she worked from 2009 to 2013. She has contributed to a number of anthologies on Latin American cinema, published on Colombian and Mexican Indigenous film and video in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and Interventions, respectively, and has co‐edited a volume of essays on Indigenous performance, Recasting Commodity and Spectacle in the Indigenous Americas (2014).

Roque González is a consultant to the UNESCO Institute of Statistics. He is the author of two books, multiple chapters in compilations, and dozens of articles and papers on film, the audiovisual, and cultural industries, published in the United States, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia. Together with Octavio Getino, he constructed the Observatory of Latin American Film and Audiovisuals (Ocal‐FNCL) and the Observatory of the Common Market of the Southern Cone (OMA‐RECAM). He is the Latin American representative to the European Observatory of Audiovisuals.

Esther Hamburger is Associate Professor of History and Criticism of Film and Television at the University of São Paulo. With a background in anthropology (PhD, University of Chicago), she is the author of O Brasil Antenado: A Sociedade da Novela (2005). She has also published in a wide range of book collections including The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender (2013), and she has contributed to journals such as Significação, Lua Nova, Novos Estudos, and Framework. Current research includes Arne Sucksdorff’s work in Brazil, and contemporary documentary film and television fiction.

Stephen M. Hart is Professor of Latin American Film, Literature and Culture at University College London, general editor of Tamesis, and founder‐director of the Centre of César Vallejo Studies at UCL. He is the director of a documentary filmmaking project which runs an annual summer school in Cuba at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in San Antonio de los Baños, operational since 2006. He was awarded the Order of Merit by the Peruvian government and an honorary doctorate by the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in 2004, elected to the post of Miembro Correspondiente de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua in 2013, and awarded the Order of Merit by the University of Trujillo in 2014. His book Latin American Film was published in 2015.

Liz Harvey is a Lecturer in Spanish Language and Culture at the University of Westminster, and holds a doctorate from University College London. Her research focuses on the formation of national identity in Costa Rica and how this is constructed and challenged within national literature and film.

Randal Johnson is Distinguished Professor of Brazilian Literature and Cinema at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Cinema Novo x 5: Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Film (1984), The Film Industry in Brazil: Culture and the State (1987), Antônio das Mortes (1998), and Manoel de Oliveira (2007), and editor or co‐editor of Brazilian Cinema (1982, 1988, 1985), Tropical Paths: Essays on Modern Brazilian Literature (1993), Black Brazil: Culture, Identity and Social Mobilization (1999), and Pierre Bourdieu’s The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature (1993).

Geoffrey Kantaris is Reader in Latin American Culture at the University of Cambridge. He specializes in modern Latin American film and literature, with particular interests in urban film (Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Brazil), women’s writing, popular culture, and the cultures of globalization. He has published many articles and book chapters on urban film, postmodernity, women’s writing, and dictatorship, and on the theory of Latin American popular culture. He is author of The Subversive Psyche (1995) and co‐editor of Latin American Popular Culture: Politics, Media, Affect (2013).

Leah Kemp is a lecturer in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at the University of Southern California. She received her doctorate from UCLA with a dissertation on depictions of citizenship in Chilean cinema during the transition to democracy.

Denilson Lopes graduated with a BA in communications and journalism (1989), an MA in literature (1992), and a PhD in sociology (1997) from Brasilia University. He subsequently taught at Brasilia University from 1997 until 2007, and he is currently a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has been invited as visting professor to a number of institutions, including City University of New York, New York University in Montreal, and Leiden University in Holland. He is an expert on contemporary cinema, gender studies, and contemporary art, and the author of a number of monographs, including No Coração do Mundo: Paisagens Transculturais (2012), A Delicadeza: Estética, Experiência e Paisagens (2007), O Homem que Amava Rapazes e Outros Ensaios (2002) and...