I recently published an article in The Conversation on the Netflix series, Narcos (José Padilha, 2015-) and the documentary film, Cartel Land (Mathew Heineman, 2015). You can read it by following this link. Cartel Land Trailer Narcos Trailer
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Cine de la Revolución en Linea / Films of the Revolution Online: Reading and Viewing
If you want to carry out online research on films of the Mexican Revolution there are a small number of resources to guide you. I thought I’d curate a sample that includes a range from the introductory to the applied. All of these are in Spanish. Very short reads (and some viewing) Coinciding with the…
Vicente Leñero, the scriptwriter a brief reflection
Since his death on the 3rd of December 2014, the novelist, dramatist, journalist, and scriptwriter, Vicente Leñero, has received considerable attention including this reflection by the novelist Ana García Bergua and this other homage from his daughter, Estela Leñero Franco. Recently, when writing two separate chapters, one about literary adaptation in Mexico and another about the Mexican director…
YouTube as Archive: Fans, Gender and Mexican Film Stars Online
I am completing the final edits of a chapter, “YouTube as Archive: Fans, Gender and Mexican Film Stars Online” for a book entitled Revising Star Studies edited by Guy Austin and Sabrina Yu. In the chapter I’m exploring what it means to access YouTube in order to carry out star fan studies and to gain…
Guadalajara: A Snapshot
Recently, I had the opportunity to spend three days (17th-19th of May 2015) in Guadalajara, Mexico. I was there to meet up with colleagues and friends who are researchers in film studies. They have an active group, REDIC, which organizes publications in print and digital (see, the re-vamped El ojo que piensa), as well as…
Museo de la Revolución
Whilst in Mexico City I was invited to give a talk by the UNAM and the Museo Nacional de la Revolución. I also launched my book, Revolution and Rebellion in Mexican Cinema. Here’s the poster of the event.
“De gran importancia” – Mexican film scholarship
Lauro Zavala, UAM Xochimilco, Mexico and Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Washington University, St Louis discuss the need for a Film Research Institute in Mexico in the Mexican national newspaper, El Universal. It is a good survey of the current state of film scholarship. Also, I am honoured to be highlighted as one of the leading film scholars in the UK in Mexican…
Mediático – Dara and Ed’s (Not So) Great Big Adventure
My recent contribution to Mediático, “Dara and Ed’s (Not so) Great Big Adventure”, reflects on Irish comedians, Dara O’Briain and Ed Byrne’s journey from Arizona to Panama City, which was recently broadcast on Irish and British terrestrial television. They follow a similar trail made in the 1940s by Sullivan C. Richardson and two of his friends, which frames…
Frida Kahlo and Her Prosthetic Aids
In collaboration with Prof Claire Taylor, University of Liverpool, I wrote ‘“I am my own muse, I am the subject I know best” – Frida Kahlo’ on the significance of prosthetic limbs, illness, props, selfhood, politics and art for the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. This was a contribution to the Life and Limbs blog page and thinking around…
Los de abajo Commemoration in Los Angeles
On the 15th and 16th of May I’ll be a featured speaker in a second conference commemorating the 100 year anniversary of the publication of Mariano Azuela’s novela de la Revolución, Los de abajo. Click herefor more information. My paper,”A Question of Taste: the Cinematic Adaptations of Los de Abajo“, considers the two films adaptations, the first in…