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Acevedo-Munoz, Ernesto R

Professor

Positions

Faculty Director, Intl Ed-Study Abroad Programs
Professor, Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts

Research Areas

Research

research overview

Dr. Acevedo Muñoz's research, teaching and publications focus on film theory, film & literature, Latin American and Spanish cinemas & culture, Cinema in France, Cinema in Italy, Hollywood genres, and on directors Luis Buñuel, Pedro Almodóvar, Stanley Kubrick, and Alfred Hitchcock.

keywords

New & Contemporary Latin American Cinemas, Hollywood Film Genres, Luis Buñuel & Pedro Almodóvar, Classic Film Theory, Film & Musical theatre adaptations, Cinema in France, Cinema in Italy

Publications

selected publications

book
- West Side Story As Cinema 2013
- Pedro Almodovar 2007
- Buñuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema 2003
chapter
- West Side Story and the Hispanic Problem. 2025
- Kubrick and Acting.. 121-132. 2020
- "EVERYTHING GLEE IN 'AMERICA' " Context, Race, and Identity Politics in the Glee (2009-2015) Appropriation of West Side Story (1961). 249-265. 2020
- "Todos nos volvemos un poco locos de vez en cuando" Buñuel y Hitchcock.. 293-324. 2017
- Transnational tryptic: the traps of national cinemas in Bunuel's Cela s'appelle l'aurore, La mort en ce jardin and La fievre monte El Pao. 340-361. 2013
- 'Strange and New ...': Subjectivity and the Ineffable in The Sweet Hereafter. 131-155. 2008
- Horror of Allegory: The Others and Its Contexts. 202-218. 2008
- Melo-Thriller: Hitchcock, Genre, and Nationalism in Pedro Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. 173-194. 2006
- Text and Context: Luis Buñuel, Octavio Paz and Mexico 2004
- The End of the Line: Africa, Death, and Freedom in Caribbean Cinema 2001
journal article
- “Me mirabas”: Steven Soderbergh’s Latin America. Mise au Point. 2018
- Coming into the light: Alumbramiento in context. Short Film Studies. 207-210. 2011
- 'Ensayo trémulo': Un desencuentro literario entre Buñuel y Almodóvar. 91-105. 2009
- Buñuel and Mexico: the crisis of national cinema. Latin American Research Review. 273-282. 2005
- Sex, Class, and Mexico in Alfonso Cuaron's Y tu mama tambien. Film and History. 39-48. 2004
- The Body and Spain: Pedro Almodóvar’sAll About My Mother. Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 25-38. 2003
- Don't look now: Kubrick, schnitzler, and "The unbearable agony of desire". LIT Literature Interpretation Theory. 117-137. 2002

Background

education and training

Ph.D., University of Iowa 1998
M.A., University of Iowa 1994

awards and honors

Eaton Faculty Awards for Outstanding Achievement, conferred by Center for Humanities and the Arts, 2007

International Activities

geographic focus

http://dbpedia.org/page/Hong_Kong Geographic Region
Americas Transnational Region
Bahamas Country
Brazil Country
Canada Country
China Country
Europe Continent
France Country
Ghana Country
Greece Country
India Country
Italy Country
Japan Country
Malta Country
Mauritius Country
Morocco Country
Netherlands Country
Portugal Country
Puerto Rico
South Africa Country
Spain Country
Turkey Country
United Kingdom Country
Viet Nam Country

Other Profiles

Google Scholar

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ResearchGate

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