Biography note

Holder of a doctorate in Audiovisual Communication from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). He has contributed to more than 30 books, including Oshima (2013), La Strada di Fellini (Liguori, 2013), Poéticas del gesto en el cine contemporáneo (Intermedio, 2013), Todas las cartas (CCCB, 2012), Le Cinéma de Julio Medem (Publications de la Sorbonne), Universo Lynch (Festival de Sitges) and Naomi Kawase (Filmoteca). He has directed numerous CaixaForum film seasons, as well as the Gesture Mutations conference (UPF, 2012). He has created audiovisual material for museums and television, written regularly for Cultura/s (a supplement of La Vanguardia), and taught at universities in Italy, Argentina and Colombia.

Research lines

- Comparative film studies;
- Contemporary cinema studies;
- Iconography and iconology in film;
- Symbolic hermeneutics and myth criticism in film;
- Analysis and history of comics and sequential narrative;
- Transmedia narratives and intertextuality: films, comics, literature, painting, videogames;
- Extras, cinema and historicity.

Teaching

(At UPF)
- Intersections between Films, Comics, Literature and Videogames;
- Trends in Contemporary Cinema;
- History of Comics;
- Evolution of Visual Languages;
- Images of Contemporary Cinema;
- History of Audiovisual Genres;
- Television Fiction Genre Analysis and Research Seminar;
- Models of Mise en Scène;
- History of Cinema A;
- History of Cinema B;
- History of Cinema I;
- History of Cinema II;
- Images of Spanish Cinema;
- Images of Spain in Contemporary Cinema;
- Imaginaries in Comics;
- Hermeneutics of Asian Cinema;

(At other universities)

- Fictional Television;
- Sequential Narratives;
- Contemporary Narratives;
- Cinema Workshop;
- Film Directing and Aesthetics;
- Narrative Analysis;
- The Sequential Narrative;
- Analysis and Screenwriting;
- Television Fiction and Series;
- The Life of Images;
- Gesture in Film;
- Ninfe e iconografía nel fumetto;
- Laboratorio di analisi degli audiovisivi: storia e analisi del linguaggio dei fumetti;
- The Walking Dead: Profanazione e soppravvivenza;
- Laboratorio di analisi degli audiovisivi: immagini-novecento-media.