Pintor, Ivan

Actual position:

Deputy Director of Research of the Department of Communication UPF

Academic training:

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 interests:

- 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.