Alberto Mira
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- davekehr.com
- history.wisc.edu/mosse/george_mosse/why_gay_history.htm
- Poseidon's Underworld
- | The Permanent Seminar on Histories of Film Theories| The Permanent Seminar on Histories of Film Theories | | The Permanent Seminar on Histories of Film Theories
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Profesor de cine. Oxford Brookes University |
| Location | Madrid, Madrid, Spain |
| Introduction | Alberto Mira is a Reader in film and Hispanic Studies at Oxford Brookes University, specializing in Spanish cinema, Film narrative, film style, stardom, film and society and representations of sexuality and the body. He is the author of the Historical Dictionary of Spanish Cinema and edited the volume 24 Frames: The cinema of Spain and Portugal. He wrote one of the first comphrensive histories of homosexuality in Spain, De Sodoma a Chueca and the monograph on film and homosexuality Miradas insumisas. Publications include articles and book chapters on Lorca, Terenci Moix, Zulueta, Mario Casas, Sara Montiel, Blanco Amor, Ventura Pons and Pedro Almodóvar. Also the author of two novels, Como la tentación and Londres para corazones despistados. Profesor de cine en la Oxford Brookes University, autor de Para entendernos , De Sodoma a Chueca y Miradas insumisas. Doy clases de narrativa cinematográfica, estrellas de cine, historia del cine y estilo. Traductor de Oscar Wilde y Edward Albee, así como autor de dos novelas: Londres para corazones despistados y Como la tentación. |
| Interests | Cine, musicales, literatura, Zizek, islas |
| Favorite Movies | Amarcord, Blue Velvet, Trouble in Paradise, Mary Poppins, Nashville, Magnolia, Sunset Boulevard, La regle du jeu, Palm Beach Story, Picnic, Black Narcissus, McCabe and Mrs Miller, Mulholland dr., Doctor Zhivago, Bringing Up Baby, Ocho y Medio, All That Heaven Allows, All About Eve, All That Jazz, Hair, Cabaret, Frozen, Network |
| Favorite Music | Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Audra McDonald, Barbara Cook, Franz Schubert, Bach, Kurt Weill, Karen Akers, Diana Ross, Eva Cassidy, Mabel Mercer, Rosemary Clooney, Maria Callas, Betty Buckley, Carpenters, Judy Garland, Edith Piaf, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae |
| Favorite Books | Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Chejov, Julio Cortázar, Gay New York, de Chauncey, el diccionario de cine de David Thomson, La Regenta, casi cualquier cosa de Henry James o de Nabokov, M (de Peter Robb, me gustaría llegar a escribir una biografía así), las memorias de Terenci Moix. Kate, de William Mann |