Manuel Garin is a professor in aesthetics and audiovisual narrative at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He is the author of the book "El gag visual. De Buster Keaton a Super Mario" (Cátedra, 2014), and has been a visiting scholar at Tokyo University of the Arts, University of Southern California and Columbia University, where he pursued the digital humanities projects "Gameplaygag: Between Silent Film and New Media" and "A Hundred Busters: Keaton Across the Arts". His research on cinema, history and audiovisual culture has been published in scholarly journals such as International Journal of Cultural Studies, Feminist Media Studies and Communication & Society, in cultural criticism magazines such as La Maleta de Portbou, Contrapicado and Cultura/s, and in books by publishers such as the MIT Press, Routledge, Oxford University Press and Palgrave. He is currently directing a research project on image, sport and historical memory in Spain, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.