Ivan Pintor. PhD in Communication Studies from Universidad Pompeu Fabra (UPF). Senior lecturer at UPF and member of the CINEMA Research Group. He currently teaches Contemporary Cinema in the Bachelor’s program in Audiovisual Communication at UPF, and Cinema, Television and Comic-book History in the UPF Master’s in Contemporary Film and Audiovisual Studies program. With Jordi Balló, he is the Principal Investigator of the research project Visual motifs in the public sphere: Production and circulation of images of power in Spain, 2011-2017, and the Project Manager in Spain of the Erasmus + Project “Teseo – Arianna’s strands in the digital age”. In recent years, he has published articles in journals and contributed to more than 50 books, including Les Motifs au cinéma (2019), Flash Gordon. L’Avventurosa meraviglia (2019), Figuras del comic. Forma, tiempo y narración secuencial (2017) or I riflessi di Black Mirror (2018). He writes at the newspaper La Vanguardia, and has organised conference cycles for different European museums. His lines of research are: gestures in film, iconology and iconography, hermeneutics and myth criticism in film, comparative film studies, television series, sequential narrative, transmedia and intertextuality.
