Fitxa persona

Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Valencia (Spain). He has been researching the history of cinema and the political effects of popular culture while his main teaching interests focus on documentary film, Spanish film, popular music and audio-visual translation. He also served as a research fellow and a visiting professor in Europe, North America, South America and Asia. He coordinated the Master’s Degree in Interculturality, Communication and European Studies at the University of Valencia and the Marie-Curie research projects “Cultural narratives of crisis and renewal” and "Archives in transition. Collective memories and subaltern uses" at the same institution. He has published many articles dedicated to cinema and music in various international journals. He has also authored books such as “Frank Zappa en el infierno. El rock como movilización para la disidencia política” (Madrid, Biblioteca Nueva, 2006) “Madrid. Visiones cinematográficas de los años 1950 a los años 2000” (Neuilly-sur-Seine, Atlande, 2014), and edited others, such as “Cine, imagen y representación en Guy Debord” (Valencia, Tirant, 2019). He also translated the memoirs of rock musicians Roger Daltrey, Robby Krieger and Frank Zappa into Spanish.