The Spanish and Lusophone Film Festival (Theme: “Roots/Routes”) will run from 31st March to 9th April in Room C215 (Screening Room), Newman Building, UCD.
- Screenings are *free*, *subtitled*, and take place every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 18:00!
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¿De quién te ries? Race & Comedy in Spanish Film - at ALCES XXI (Valencia, July 14-17 2026).
Join us for this seminar - on how contemporary Spanish comedies mobilise race & globalisation for laughs!
📝 Send 250-word abstracts by *12 March* -
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New Palomitas pod with Prof Rosi Song @languagesdurham.bsky.social - on Icíar Bollaín's "Flowers from Another World" (1999)
3 women join a "love caravan" to a depopulated Castilian village. What follows is tender, tense, and radically human.
Listen here ⬇️
open.spotify.com/episode/71R6...
Certainly the question of whose deaths are grievable in contemporary Britain feels potent on the day Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is finally arrested. (Oddly it's been reported that he is very attached to teddy bears)
His influence knows no bounds, honestly - and he's even been used for celebrity "deaths" beyond the UK! We're thrilled you enjoyed our article - thanks for sharing!
New OA article with @jen-studies-death.bsky.social
How did Paddington Bear - immigrant from Peru - become the go-to British symbol… and its grim reaper? 🐻💀
From Jubilee tea with Queen Elizabeth II to #CreepyPaddington memes, read all here! tinyurl.com/bdeu4tb5
#Paddington #ComedyStudies
My new article is out: I analyse Netflix’s LGBTQ+ romcom #Smiley (2022) to explore how digital intimacies are visualised onscreen, from split-screens to algorithmic desire.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1386/ijis...
#Romcom #DigitalIntimacy #ScreenStudies #TV #LGBTQ #Netflix
Estamos ya en directo en @pleibericos.bsky.social, hablando sobre las nuevas publicaciones en el ámbito del cine español 🎦🎞️📽️
Such a pleasure to have @drpetewatson.bsky.social on the Palomitas Podcast! We discuss this sensual, sun-drenched comedy featuring stars Penélope Cruz and Maribel Verdú!
Get it wherever podcasts are found 🎧
Thrilled to have won the 2026 Edgar Allison Peers Prize of the AHGBI! My article examines East-Asian representation in 2 Spanish comedies of 2019, investigating gender, comedy, and nationhood @ucdslcl.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social #LoveIrishResearch
🥳 New publication! “A High Price Toupee: The Costs of Baldness in Por los pelos” is out in NECSUS (Autumn 2025, #Ageing). I explore how screen comedy frames baldness, masculinity & hair-loss anxiety via Spain’s Very Bald Trip (Nacho G. Velilla, 2022)
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Haha I know the feeling! Please let me know how it goes for you and if you found it valuable (and, if so how!) - thanks a million
🎬 New Podcast Episode - Pan's Labyrinth, with Professor Ann Davies, Emerita of Spanish at @stir.ac.uk!
For film fans and Spanish students/teachers!
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/7Ky7...
#PansLabyrinth #GuillermoDelToro #FilmStudies #Podcast
🎉 Buzzing from the launch of Film Comedy and Spain: Humour, Genre & the Nation 1970–2020! 🎉
Huge thanks to @ucdslcl.bsky.social for sponsoring and to everyone who joined - in person & online! 🙌 Honoured to receive the @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social Publication Prize!
Get yours👇
tinyurl.com/25s7vtph
Come along tomorrow @4pm!
My Book Launch is happening next Tuesday 25th! Please do come along if you can :) Hybrid option available - if you're interested, shoot me a quick email or write to me on here 📚
📢 My chapter is out in Feminismos e Humor! I analyse Javier Fesser's "Ayoub's birthday", from his Unfortunate Stories (2020) as a romcom gone wrong, inverting national myths to critique historical amnesia RE Spain's "de-Africanization".
Full ebook: €5!
tinyurl.com/56bhesuf
#SpanishFilm #FilmStudies
The paperback of Ophelia Through Time: Reimaginings in Art and Film (by Prof Carolina Sanabria, translated & edited by me, with a co-written Intro) is out now via Cambridge Scholars! 📖
£32.99 - or ask me nicely for a cheeky further discount 😉
Buy here: cambridgescholars.com/product/978-...
After a year online, our Convergence article is out in print!
We analysed how British film & TV circulate (and sometimes hide) on Europe’s VoD platforms.
Huge thanks to my co-authors @jeanettesteemers.bsky.social and Cathrin Bengesser! doi.org/10.1177/1354...
Yesterday UCD's Newman Building was transformed by 'Metamorphosis' - a giant inflatable sculpture by Olga Diego. Students & staff drew and performed on this reusable plastic canvas, turning art into a living act of sustainability. Kudos colleagues Ana Vera & Eva Bru-Domínguez! @ucdslcl.bsky.social
📣 Thrilled that my article "Tough Love: Violence and Revenge in Contemporary Spanish Comedy" is out in Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies! I analyse a wave of cynical anti-romcoms - like new film The Roses (2025) - reflecting cynicism and waning couple confidence #filmstudies doi.org/10.1080/2474...
A pulsating panel on self-representing streaming services at ECREA 2025! I spoke about how Netflix Spain comedies about sex & intimacy incorporate Netflix itself into their own diegesis! #loveirishresearch
What an amazing panel on gender and the body in Spanish cinema at @acis46.bsky.social! Thanks to the organisers for such a stimulating conference 😍
Terrific first day of @acis46.bsky.social, sharing conversation and good food with Hispanists from right across the globe! And all in one of my favourite Spanish cities: Santiago de Compostela :)
Awesome! Yes, Duncan is an authority on all things Spanish cinema! I'm planning future episodes and guests now, so watch this space! Thanks for the interest in the pod :)
NEW Palomitas episode on Fe de etarras (Bomb Scared) (2017)!
We dissect Borja Cobeaga's satire of 4 inept militants trapped in a flat during Spain's 2010 World Cup win ⚽️
With expert Alison Posey
Listen: tinyurl.com/4jt682cw
#PalomitasPodcast #CineEspañol #ETA #Spanishfilm
Haha I'd love to cover as many films as possible - but, alas, time is always the issue! If you'd like to come on the podcast to discuss one of those above, or another you deem particularly important/nuanced, it would be terrific to hold a conversation about it 😀 So far I'm focusing on Spanish cinema
Hi Pete! Thank you for this kind message - I'm so glad that it's come in handy for you and your students! If you have any requests for future episodes, please let me know 😀
📢 Delighted to announce that my book, "Film Comedy and Spain: Humour, Genre, and the Nation 1970-2020", is out!
Get your copy - or ask your library for one - here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Film-Comedy-Spain
Thanks to everyone who supported me through this process!
#NewBook #FilmStudies
New Pod!🎙️
Remember the Jenni Hermoso/Luis Rubiales "kiss"?
🎧 Palomitas explores feminist struggles in Spanish docs:
📽️ No estás sola (fighting the "Wolf Pack")
⚽ #SeAcabó (women’s football revolution)
Special guest Dr. Abigail Loxham @abigail
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr3vaz5x
#WomensFootball #MeToo #SeAcabó
