Contemporary German Cinema in its political, aesthetic and industrial context; The relationship between German and US cinema; The representation of 'Victimhood' in German culture; 'Ostalgie' View full profile

Brazilian cinema post-1960, especially popular/exploitation films, race and sexuality. World Cinema, especially new definitions, popular cinema, Third Cinema theory and national cinemas. View full profile

•Modern Japanese literature, film and cultural studies •Relations between historical and cultural form (e.g. visuality, cinema and modernity; modernism and advanced capitalism) •Cultural theory View full profile

Romantic literature in twentieth century France, Film. View full profile

Lecturer in Portuguese Studies View full profile

World Cinema, cinematic realism, intermediality, new waves and new cinemas, Brazilian cinema, Japanese cinema, German Cinema. View full profile

Alan is a specialist in Italian cultural studies and popular cinema. His previous research was on terrorism in Italian cinema. View full profile

Dr Pitman works on Latin American cultural production; especially Mexican and Chicana/o materials. Her current work focuses on Latin American cyberculture and the expression of Latin American-ness. View full profile

Media and democratisation in Greater China, identity issues in Taiwan, as Mell as films and media representation of history, culture and politics in East Asia. View full profile

Contemporary Russian film, animation, digital media, popular culture; 20th Century Russian literature. View full profile

Golden Age drama and prose fiction; Hispanic and European cinema(s); translation; contemporary Spanish culture and politics; twentieth-century Spanish theatre; gender and sexuality. View full profile