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Brunella Tedesco-Barlocco is currently writing her Ph.D. thesis on reboots, requels and revivals at Pompeu Fabra University, in Barcelona, Spain. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from ORT University (Montevideo, Uruguay), and an M.A. in Contemporary Film and Audiovisual Studies from Pompeu Fabra University. She is a doctoral fellow at the Communication Department, a member of the CINEMA Research Group of Pompeu Fabra University, and an editorial assistant of the academic journal Comparative Cinema. She has published articles in Adaptation, Communication & Society and El profesional de la información.

In November and December 2021, Brunella was on a research stay at the English Department of Leibniz University Hannover, with Prof. Dr. Kathleen Loock as her mentor.

You can find Brunella on Orcid, ResearchGate and Academia.

Jonathan Gray is Hamel Family Distinguished Chair in Communication Arts and Professor Media and Cultural Studies at University of Wisconsin – Madison. His research interests generally focus on the points of contact between texts and audiences, and hence on lived textualities and on audience reception. Recent books include Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste and Television Goes to the Movies (with Derek Johnson). He also edits International Journal of Cultural Studies, NYU Press’ Critical Cultural Communication series, and is an International Communication Association Fellow.

Fabiola Alcalá Anguiano is a research professor in the Department of Social Communication Studies at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. Her main lines of research are German cinema, documentary film and visual studies. She likes to reflect on cinema and to find in its images a way of understanding the world. She has written about filmmakers such as Werner Herzog, Harun Farocki, Christian Petzold, Agnès Varda, Angela Schanelec, among others.

In this project she will be in charge of applying the study in Mexico, a territory where the influence of U.S. cinema is extremely strong and has a direct impact on the construction of identities.

Here are some of her latest publications:

2022. Alcalá, Fabiola. Barcelona en el Cine, una metáforca en Construcción. El ojo que piensa. Número 24. http://www.elojoquepiensa.cucsh.udg.mx/index.php/elojoquepiensa/article/view/382

2021. Alcalá, Fabiola. Coyunturas éticas y estéticas en el cine documental contemporáneo. Testimonios sobre la guerra contra el narcotráfico en México. Miguel Hernández Communcation Journal, Vol 12 (1), pp. 105-118. Universidad Miguel Hernández, UMH (Elche-Alicante). https://revistas.innovacionumh.es/index.php/mhcj/article/view/940

2021. Alcalá, Fabiola. Las imágenes de Rostros y Lugares (2017). Una reflexión desde el documental performativo y los estudios visuales. Fotocinema. Revista cientifica De Cine Y fotografia, (22), pp. 331-349. https://revistas.uma.es/index.php/fotocinema/article/view/11728

Philippe Meers is a Professor in Film and Media Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, where leads the Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi) and the Center for Mexican Studies. He has published widely on historical and contemporary film cultures and audiences. With Richard Maltby and Daniel Biltereyst, he co-edited Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies (2011), Audiences, Cinema and Modernity: New Perspectives on European Cinema History (2012) and The Routledge Companion to New Cinema History (2019). His latest co-edited volume is Cinema in the Arab World: New Histories, New Approaches, with Ifdal Elsaket and Daniel Biltereyst (Bloomsbury, World Cinema series, 2023).He co-coordinates the Spanish language research network ‘Cultura de la Pantalla’.

Links to his projects:

www.cinemabelgica.be
www.cinemacitycultures.org (temporarily offline)
www.cineheritage.org

Annette Kuhn is Emeritus Professor in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London, a Member of the European Academy, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She writes on film history, and on cultural memory in relation to photography and cinema. As Director of Cinema Culture in 1930s Britain and Co-Investigator of Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive – 1930s Britain & Beyond (lancaster.ac.uk) she has devoted several decades to investigating how audiences relate to and remember their past cinemagoing, introducing the concept of ‘cinema memory’ into the field.

Christine Hämmerling, Dr., is a Senior Teaching and Research Assistant at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, Zurich University (since 2014). Her main research interests are social movements, trust and professionalization, trade and gift giving, ego documents (Das dokumentierte Ich, 2018), popular taste, reception of popular media & media theory (Sonntags, 20.15 Uhr: Tatort, 2016), the anthropology of space (Wissensmedien des Raums, 2020), cultural theory, and qualitative methods.

Nicolas Licata holds a PhD in Languages, Literature and Translation Studies from the University of Liège, where he defended in 2020 a thesis on contemporary Argentine and Mexican literature, concerning the genre of autofiction, which can be defined as an autobiographical narrative in which the author deliberately introduces fictitious elements, in variable proportions and for a wide variety of possible reasons. His most recent articles on this subject were published in the journals Bulletin of Contemporary Hispanic Studies, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Anales de Filología Francesa, as well as in the collective volume La invasión de los alter egos: Estudios sobre la autoficción y lo fantástico (Iberoamericana/Vervuert 2021), that he co-edited together with Rahel Teicher and Kristine Vanden Berghe. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) where he is furthering his research on Mexican autofiction of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Although he is primarily interested in literature, he is more generally passionate about the Mexican culture and society. Throughout his various travels and research, he has often been able to observe the deep traces left in this country by Hollywood films. Getting involved in this project is for him a way to broaden his understanding of Mexico and its connections with the rest of the world.

Maya Nedyalkova is a Research Fellow for the Creative Industries Research and Innovation Network at Oxford Brookes University, interested in popular culture and film/media audiences. She examined aspects of the transnational Bulgarian film industry during her PhD at the University of Southampton, which was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. For her British Academy postdoctoral fellowship at Oxford Brookes, she explored Bulgarian film audiences’ memories of film-viewing in relation to current habits, practices and preferences. She co-edited two themed sections, titled “International Film Audiences”, for Participations Journal of Audience and Reception Studies and has published in journals (Open Screens and Studies in Eastern European Cinema) and edited volumes (The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative New Cinema Histories, Routledge Companion to European Cinema, Popular Music and the Moving Image in Eastern Europe, and Transformation Processes in Post-socialist Screen Media). A beta version of the website with the findings of her most recent project can be found here: https://bulgarianfilmaudiences.org/