Professor Chris Perriam
Professor of Hispanic Studies
Phone: +44 (0)161 275 8040
Email: christopher.perriam@manchester.ac.uk
Research specialisation
Contemporary Spanish Cinema, especially in relation to Star Studies; poetry in Spanish 1980 to the present day; queer writing in Spain.
Publications:
Books
- Joint author with Phil Powrie, Bruce Babington, Ann Davies: Carmen on Film: A Cultural History (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2007)
- Joint editor with Ann Davies: Carmen: From Silent Film to MTV (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2006)
- Stars and Masculinities in Spanish Cinema: From Banderas to Bardem (Oxford: OUP, 2003)
- Desire and Dissent: An Introduction to Luis Antonio de Villena (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1995)
- A New History of Spanish Writing: 1939 to the present day (Oxford: OUP, 2000) (editor and joint author)
- The Late Poetry of Pablo Neruda (Oxford: Dolphin Book Co., 1989)
Recent Academic Journal Articles
- 'Victoria Abril in Transnational Context', Hispanic Research Journal (The Transnational in Iberian and Latin American Cinemas, Special issue; edited by Evans, Perriam & Santaolalla), Hispanic Research Journal 8/1: 42-60 (2007)
- 'Visualizing Neruda: Film, photography, prints , Hispanic Research Journal 7/2 (2006): 143-55
- 'Two transnational Spanish stars: Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz', Studies in Hispanic Cinemas 2/1 (2005): 29-45
Recent chapters in books
- Joint author with Santiago Fouz Hernández: 'El deseo sin ley: la representación de la «homosexualidad» en el cine español de los años noventa', in Cultura, homosexualidad y homofobia edited by Félix Rodríguez González (Barcelona: Laertes, 2007), pp. 61-80
- 'Gender and Sexuality , in Companion to Lorca edited by Federico Bonaddio (London: Tamesis, 2006), pp. 149-69
- 'Sara Montiel: Entre dos mitos', in La Mirada homosexual, special issue of Archivos de la Filmoteca (54) edited by Alberto Mira (Valencia: Institut Valencià de Cinematografia, 2007), pp. 196-209
- 'El último cuplé (The Last Song; a.k.a. The Last Torch Song) (Juan de Orduña, 1957)', in The Cinemas of Spain and Portugal edited by Alberto Mira (London: Wallflower Press, 2005), pp. 89-98
- 'Heterosociality in Segunda piel (Gerardo Vera, 2000) and Sobreviviré (Alfonso Albacete David Menkes, 1999): Strong Women or the same old story?', in Gender and Spanish Cinema, edited by S. Marsh & P. Nair (Oxford & Providence: Berg Publishers, 2004), pp. 151-64
- 'Alejandro Amenábar's Abre los ojos/Open Your Eyes (1997) , in Spanish Popular Cinema, edited by A. Lázaro Reboll & A. Willis (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2004) ISBN 0-7190-6283-7. pp. 209-21
Research students
Pilar Caballero-Alías: The influence of Spanish Surrealists on Mexican Art and Spanish Writers in Mexico
Rocio Ortuno Casanova: The Bible and religious cultural history (Catholic) and their relationship with surrealist poetry in Spain
Xime Castillo-Smyntek: The role of the mass media in contemporary Chilean film: with a video production by Xime (Jandy) Castillo-Smyntek
Diana Cullell: Reevaluación de la poesía de la experienceia: habitus y cuerpo
Juan Jiminez-Anca: The Negative as Flesh: An Enquiry into the Relationship between the Body and Modern Spanish and European Culture
Elaine Luck: Visual Culture in Contemporary Mexico and its Institutional Representation
Mariana Casale O'Ryan: The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as a Transnational Cultural Icon
Professional biography:
- Member of editorial collective of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies
- Member of editorial committee of the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool)
- Member of editorial committee of Estudios de Cultura de España, Vervuert/Iberoamericana
- Member of the editorial board of Studies in Hispanic Cinema
- Member of the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (University of London) Advisory Council
Teaching Areas:
Undergraduate
- Spanish cinema
- Spanish and Latin American literatures
- Translation
Postgraduate
- Cultural Studies
- Spanish cinema
- Poetry in Spanish