Dr Jara Fernandez-Meneses

I have taught several modules on Spanish cinema, Film Production, Cultural and Creative Industries, Film Industry and Film Policy. I am currently teaching the following modules: 

-FILM3025: International Film Industry: Issues and Debates

-FILM6034: Film Policy

-FILM6033: Current Issues in Film Distribution and Exhibition

-FILM1002: Intro to Film II: European Cinema

-FILM3003: BA Film Dissertation 

-FILM6060: MA Film Dissertation 

My research focuses on film policy, film industry, contemporary European cinema and popular culture. Within this framework, I have published in the peer-reviewed journals Secuencias. Revista de Historia del Cine, Film Studies, Studies in European Cinemas, New Cinemas. Journal of Contemporary Film, Hispanic Research Journal, International Journal of Cultural Policy, Quarterly Review of Film and Video as well as several chapters in edited books for the San Sebastian International Film Festival, Las Palmas International Film Festival, Seminci.Valladolid International Film Festival, Nosferatu, Peter Lang,  Tirant Lo Blanch and Catedra. I am the author of Spanish Film Policies and Gender (Routledge, 2024).

Before coming to Southampton in 2022, I had lectured at the University of Exeter (UK),  the University Carlos III (Madrid) and the University of Kent (UK). I sit in the editorial board of the Film Section of Modern Languages Open (University of Liverpool). I conduct my current research in three international research groups: TECMERIN (Televisión-cine: memoria, representación e industria) of the University Carlos III of Madrid,  “DeVisiones. Discursos, genealogías y prácticas de creación visual contemporánea”  of the University Autónoma of Madrid and the European Popular Musics Research Group of the University of Leeds. 

Outside academia, I have worked as a film programmer for several institutions in Spain -Cineteca, CA2M, MNCARS, Cruce-, as a film critic for Cahiers du Cinema. Spain, as a project manager for the Spanish Film Institute (ICAA) and as a cultural critic for Serie B. Cultural Magazine. I have also worked as an advisor for ProImagenes, the Colombian film funding body and as member of the selection committee of Documenta International Film Festival and Animario International Film Festival.