Alejandra Bulla is currently pursuing her PhD at the English Department of Leibniz Universität Hannover. She is a member of the Emmy Noether research group “Hollywood Memories: Cinematic Remaking and the Construction of Global Movie Generations,” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), where she focuses on Mexican audiences. She has a Master’s degree in American Studies from the University of Erlangen, Germany, and a bachelor’s degree as English teacher from the Universidad Francisco José de Caldas in Bogota, Colombia.

Stefan Dierkes is an American Studies PhD student at Leibniz University Hannover. He is part of the Emmy Noether research group “Hollywood Memories: Cinematic Remaking and the Construction of Global Movie Generations,” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). His dissertation looks at Hollywood’s remaking culture and its impact on German audiences, combining empirical methods, historical research, and film analysis.

Christine Hämmerling 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.

Kathleen Loock is Professor of American Studies and Media Studies at Leibniz University Hannover and director of the Emmy Noether research group “Hollywood Memories: Cinematic Remaking and the Construction of Global Movie Generations,” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Her research focuses on Hollywood’s remaking practice, seriality, and the role memory and cultural repetition perform on the levels of identity formation and for the maintenance of imagined communities. She has published on remakes, sequels, reboots, and the nostalgia franchise as well as on TV series revivals, and written, edited, or co-edited six books and special issues on these topics.

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’.

Ana Rosas Mantecón holds a PhD in Anthropology and is a professor and researcher in the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana’s Department of Anthropology, Mexico. She specializes in cinema, museum and heritage audiences, as well as cultural access policy. She has promoted the dialogue between theory and practice in cultural management through the participation in different international, national and regional programs dedicated to the professionalization of cultural mediators, applied research and audience development.

The workshop also features a research projects on memories of Bulgarian film audiences by Maya Nedyalkova (Oxford Brookes University). Maya will present her work in a pre-recorded video, titled “From Tarzan (1932) to Titanic (1997) – Hollywood in the Memories of Three Generations of Bulgarian Film Viewers”

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.