Valeria Camporesi, new director of the Spanish Film Archive

Starting in January 2023, Valeria Camporesi, professor of History of Cinema and Visual Culture at the Autonomous University of Madrid, will become director of the Spanish Film Archive.

Camporesi take over from Josetxo Cerdán who, after four years at the head of the institution, leaves the position for personal reasons to return to his teaching and research work. The professor will be in charge of giving a new impulse to this body in charge of preservation of Spanish cinematographic heritage dependent on Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA).

Valeria Camporesi (Bologna, 1957), doctor in History and Civilization from the European University Institute, is currently Professor of History of Cinema and Visual Culture in the Department of Audiovisual Communication of the Autonomous University of Madrid, of which she has also been director since 2019. In parallel to her work as a teacher and researcher, since 2008 she has held different academic management positions. Until 2022 it has been vice-rector of cultural extension and scientific dissemination; vice dean of International Relations; department director; and coordinator of master's and doctoral degrees.

Among his publications Highlights include the manual 'Thinking the history of cinema' (Cátedra, 2014), the book on the history of Spanish cinema in Italian 'Il cinema spagnolo' (Carocci/Il Mulino, 2014), 'For adults and children. A cinema for the Spanish, 1940-1990' (Turfán, 1993) and the one based on the research of his doctoral thesis 'Mass Culture and National Traditions. The BBC and American Broadcasting’ (European Press Academic Publishing, 2000). He has also published a series of articles on Spanish cinema in transnational perspective in journals such as 'NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies' (2022), 'Studies in European Cinema' (2018), 'Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television' (2014), 'Secuencias' (2008) and 'Cinema et Cie' (2005), among others.

Additionally, he has participated in collective volumes such as ‘Spanish cinema: history and culture’ (Colin, 2014), ‘Read, see, hear. La réception des objets mediatiques' (Paris, 2010), 'Cinema, nacion(es) y nacionalidad(es) en España' (Casa de Velázquez, 2008), 'Lo stile cinematografico/Film Style' (Università degli Studi di Udine, 2007), 'Television and History' (G. Taylor, 2001). ‘European Cinemas in the Television Age’ (Edinburgh, 2007), among others.