Lecturer, Department of Film & Television Studies

Contact Details

Department of Film and Television Studies
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL UK

Tel: +44 24 7652 2361
Fax: +44 24 7652 4757
Email: J.Arroyo@warwick.ac.uk

Research Profile

José Arroyo is currently researching the effect of changing mediascapes on traditional questions in film aesthetics.

His ongoing interests include issues of national and sexual representation, Spanish cinema and contemporary Hollywood cinema.

He is currently writing on Antonio Banderas and Javier Bardem, and his next project is on ‘Impact’ Aesthetics. He is a regular reviewer for Sight and Sound.

Publications

• Action/Spectacle: A Sight and Sound Reader London: BFI Publishing, 2000.
• ‘Queering the Folklore: Genre and Re-presentation of Homosexual and National identities in Las cosas del querer’ in Bill Marshall and Robynn Stilwell eds. Musicals: Hollywood and Beyond Bristol: Intellect Books, 2000, pp. 70-79.
• ‘Film Studies’ in Andy Medhurst and Sally Munt eds. Lesbian and Gay Studies: A Critical Introduction, London: Cassells, 1997, pp. 67-84 ISBN 0.304.338825
• 'Death, Desire and Identity: The Political Unconscious of "New Queer Cinema", in Joseph Bristow and Angelia R. Wilson (eds.) Activating Theory: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Politics xi 266pp, London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1993. ISBN 85375 7901, pp. 72-98
• 'La ley del deseo: a gay seduction' in Richard Dyer and Ginette Vincendeau (eds.) Popular European Cinema, London: Routledge, 1992, pp. 31-46,. isbn 0-415-06803-7.
• "Bordwell Considered: Cognitivism, Colonialism and Canadian Cinematic Culture" CineAction, Toronto, No. 28 Spring, pp. 74-88.
• "Look Back and Talk Black: The Films of Isaac Julien in Postmodern Britain", Jump Cut, no. 36, 1991, pp. 2-12
• "John Grierson and the War for Men's Minds", Cinema Canada, December 1989, no. 169, pp. 15-20.

Teaching

José Arroyo teaches Basic Issues and Methods: Film History, Moving Image History and Technology, and Film Aesthetics