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 

Single authored monographs

Spanish Film Policies and Gender (Routledge, 2024) 

Journal articles 

• Jara Fernández Meneses and Vicente Rodríguez Ortega (2021): “Contemporary Spanish Comedies, ‘Mirror Films’ and European Cinema: Evaluating Ocho apellidos vascos / Spanish Affair”, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Taylor&Francis. Published online on March 9. DOI: 10.1080/10509208.2021.1881397.
• Jara Fernández Meneses (2020): “Rethinking Quality Cinema”, International Journal of Cultural Policy, Taylor&Francis. Published online on November 25. DOI: 10.1080/10286632.2020.1844676.
• Jara Fernández Meneses (2019): “Between Art and Commerce: the Semprún Decree and the New Spanish Cinema of the 1990s”. Hispanic Research Journal 20 (2), pp.87-103, Taylor&Francis.
• Valeria Camporesi & Jara Fernández Meneses (2018): “Making Sense of Genre: the `Quality Thriller´ as a Vehicle to Revise a Controversial Past in Spanish Recent Cinema”. Studies in European Cinema 15 (2.3), pp. 198-214, Taylor&Francis.
• Jara Fernández Meneses & Zahra Tzavasolli Zea (eds.) (2017): “Transnational Perspectives on Film Theory, Criticism and Culture”. Film Studies 16 (1), pp. 1-5, Mancheser University Press.
• Jara Fernández Meneses (2015): “New Modes of Cinematic Production in Contemporary Spanish Cinema: Private Televisions and the Film Franchise”. New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 13-2, pp. 139-152. Intellect Journals.
• Jara Fernández Meneses (2011): “Cuando Hollywood encontró a Harlem. Caminos para la creación de un nuevo modelo de representación de la identidad afroamericana en el cine de los estudios (1970-1971)”. Secuencias. Revista de Historia del Cine 33, pp. 29-51.

Chapter in books:

• Jara Fernández Meneses (2023): " Me, Myself and I: poeticas de la subjetividad en la era del yo" in El documental en España. Historia, estética e identidad, Casimiro Torreiro and Alejandro Alvarado (eds.). Catedra, pp. 375-385. 
• Jara Fernández Meneses (2021): “Acuerdos y desacuerdos. Revisitando la Ley Miró” in Una cultura cinematográfica en transición. España 1972-1986, Fernando Ramos Arenas (ed.), Tirant lo Blanch, pp. 43-69.
• Jara Fernández Meneses (2020): “El concepto es el concepto. Airbag y el blockbuster español de los 90” in Cine y Cultura Popular en los 90: España-Latinoamérica, Manuel Palacio y Vicente Rodríguez Ortega (eds.), Peter Lang, pp.143-158.
• Jara Fernández Meneses (2019): “Fassbinder y la televisión: el cine expandido” in Rainer Werner Fassinder. Urgencia y rabia, Quim Casas (ed.), Libros Nosferatu, Patronato de Cultura de Donostia: San Sebastián, pp. 145-153.
• Jara Fernández Meneses (2018): “Paul Thomas Anderson: luces y sombras de Norteamérica” in La década prodigiosa: directores americanos de los años 90, Carlos H. Heredero (ed.), Seminci. 63 Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid, pp. 61-67. 
• Jara Fernández Meneses (2011): "Streetlife is the Only Life I Know: una aproximación al policíaco negro contemporáneo", in Neo-Noir, Cine Negro Americano Moderno, Jesús Palacios (ed.), Festival Internacional de Cine de las Palmas, pp. 103-129. 
• Jara Fernández Meneses (2011): "Serial Noir", in American Way of Death: Cine Negro Americano 1990-2010, Roberto Cueto y Antonio Santamarina (eds.), Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián, pp. 197-233. 

Book reviews 

• Jara Fernández Meneses (2022), Film Festivals: Cinema and Cultural Exchange by Mar Diestro-Dópido (2021). Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas, Vol.19, June 2022, p. 263 - 266.

Papers in conferences

• 2-3 July 2013: “Quality Cinema in Spain”. The 10th Annual MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Conference. University of East Anglia, United Kingdom.
• 26-28 June 2014: “Rethinking ‘Democratic’ Cinema: Film Legislation in Spain”. Film and Media 2014: ‘Visions of Identity: Global Film and Media’. The Fourth Annual London Film and Media. London, United Kingdom.
• 4-6 April 2016: “Spanish Documentaries and Contemporary Film Policies”. The LXI Annual Conference for the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland. Northumbria University, United Kingdom.
• 18-20 October 2017: “Lo imposible: el cine español contemporáneo frente a Hollywood en un contexto de crisis económica”, Congreso Internacional Imaginarios digitales del sur: historias de pertenencia y desarraigo en los cines hispánicos, University Carlos III of Madrid / Casa de América of Madrid.
• 17-19 October 2018: “El Decreto Semprún y el nuevo cine español de los noventa”, Congreso Internacional Cine, televisión y cultura popular en los noventa: España-Latinoamérica, University Carlos III of Madrid.
• 8-10 January 2020: “The Power of the docudrama: critical responses to Netflix's The Alcasser Case”, MeCCSA Brighton 2020 Conference, Unversity of Brighton, United Kingdom.
• 9 April 2021: “The demise of Spanish film criticism? Future film cultures when film education is at stake” (Nuria Triana Toribio and Jara Fernández Meneses), From Analogue to Digital: Film Criticism in Spain, Portugal and Latin America, University of Leeds, United Kingdom.
• 25-27 June 2021: “Trans-topical comedies. Regional Identities &The Comedy of Stereotypes” (Vicente Rodríguez Ortega and Jara Fernández Meneses), Screen Conference 2021, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.
• 11-13 July 2022: “The Politics of Masquerade. C.Tangana and the Production of Contemporary Spanish Popular Culture” (Vicente Rodríguez Ortega and Jara Fernández Meneses), AHGBI Annual Conference, Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR), University of London, United Kingdom.
• 21-23 September 2022: "“Nahikari Ipiña: Productora Clave del Siglo XXI” (Vicente Rodríguez Ortega and Jara Fernández Meneses), Congreso Internacional Mujeres y Cine en Iberoamérica: Políticas, representaciones, historias, interseccionalidades,
  Universidad Carlos III of Madrid.
• 10-11 July 2023: "Rosalía: Building a Transnational Pop Music Star" (Vicente Rodríguez Ortega and Jara Fernández Meneses), Music Across Borders: Artists, Industries and Representations in and Beyond Europe", European Popular Musics Research Group confernece, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris.
• 16-19 April 2024: "Regulating Gender Equality in the Spanish Film Industry", Media Industries Conference, King's College, London.

Public engagement and impact 

• Guest lecture: “La legislación cinematográfica en España: 1982-2010” in the M.A Historia del Arte Contemporáneo y Cultura Visual of the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid/ Complutense University of Madrid/Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. April 28, 2014.
• Invited speaker in the round table “Discussions with Film Critics: the Right to History in Documentary Cinema” alongside Daria Badyor (Ukraine), Lauren Wissot (USA), Tue Steen Müller (Denmark) and Yulia Kovalenko (Ukraine) in the 15^th International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival of Kiev, Ukraine March 26, 2018.
• Guest lecture: “Roma” in the M.A Latin American Cinema: Race, Nation and Representation, University of Exeter. November 16, 2021.
• Invited speaker in the roundtable following the UK premiere of the film Vamonos, Barbara (Cecilia Bartolome, 1978) alongside Professor Sally Faulkner (University of Exeter), Professor Nuria Triana Toribio (University of Kent), Professor Hilary Owen (University of Oxford), Dr. Concepcion Cascajosa Virino (UC3M) and Dr. Eliana Maestri (University of Oxford), held by the ARHC funded project Leading Women at VIVA: Spanish and Latin American Film Festival, Manchester, March 26, 2023.
• Invited speaker in the pannel Oral History Methodology and Translating Cultures alongside Professor Linda Williams and Dr. Olivia Glaze (University of Exeter) held at the University of Exeter, May 25, 2023.
• Invited speaker in the workshop Hate Speech and Abusive Language, organized by Wasseda University Brussels Office, Brussels, March 5 and 6, 2024. 
• Invited speaker in the roundtable "Igualdad de género en las industrias audiovisuales británica y española" alongside Professor Shelly Cobb (University of Southampton), Melanie Hoyes (Director of Inclusion, BFI), Cristina Andreu (CIMA) and Valeria Camporesi (Head of the Spanish Cinematheque) at the Spanish Film Academy, April 11, 2024.

Scholarships

• 50^th Anniversary Research Scholarship to do my PhD. School of European Culture and Languages Graduate Teaching Assistantship. University of Kent (2012-2015).
• Co-investigator in the ARHC funded Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) project "Calling the Shots: gender equality in the film industry, a transnational approach" alongside Professor Shelley Cobb (University of Southampton) as PI. 

 Reviewer for peer-reviewed journals

• Studies in European Cinemas
• Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies
• Hispanic Research Journal
• New Cinemas. Journal of Contemporary Films
• Television and New Media
• Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas
• The Nordic Journal of Cultural Policy
• Transnational Screens
• Studies in World Cinema
• European Journal of Women's Studies
• Tecmerin. Revista de ensayos visuales