Areas of Interest: Film Studies — Film History — Iberian Cinemas — Portuguese Cinema— Spanish Cinema — Galician Cinema
Iván Villarmea Álvarez is an Assistant Professor of History of Film at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain) and Associated Researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Coimbra (Portugal). He is the author of Documenting Cityscapes. Urban Change in Contemporary Non-Fiction Film (2015) and co-editor the volumes Jugar con la Memoria. El Cine Portugués en el Siglo XXI (2014, with Horacio Muñoz Fernéndez) and New Approaches to Cinematic Space (2019, with Filipa Rosário). Founding member of the Compostela Film Society since 2001, he also contributes to the online film journal A Cuarta Parede since 2011 and has served as Vice-president (2020-2022) and Secretary (2022-2024) of the Association of Moving Image Researchers (AIM).
His most crucial contribution to the field of Iberian Studies is the introduction of the concept of “Iberian austerity cinema”, which he has developed in several publications related to his post-doc research project: “Crisis-scapes. Representations of the Great Recession in Iberian Films (2006-2021)”.
More information: Ciência Vitae, Academia.edu
Iván Villarmea Álvarez’s publications in the IStReS database:
Muñoz Fernández, Horacio, and Iván Villarmea Álvarez. 2014. ‘Un Cine Nacional para una Época Transnacional’. In Jugar con la memoria. El cine portugués en el siglo XXI., edited by Horacio Muñoz Fernández and Iván Villarmea Álvarez, 198–210. Shangrila. file:///C:/Users/Gabri/Downloads/Un_Cine_Nacional_para_una_Epoca_Transnac%20(4).pdf.
Villarmea Álvarez, Iván. 2018. ‘Rostros y espacios de la austeridad en los cines ibéricos (2007-2016)’. Iberoamericana 69 (17): 13–36. https://doi.org/10.18441/ibam.
———. 2019. ‘Paisagens Vividas, Trabalhadas, Truncadas. Iconografia da Periferia Urbana no Cinema Ibérico da Austeridade’. Rebeca. Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Cinema e Audiovisual 2 (8): 15–34. https://doi.org/10.22475/rebeca.v8n2.595.
———. 2020. ‘It Could Happen to You: Empathy and Empowerment in Iberian Austerity Cinema’. In Cinema of Crisis. Film and Contemporary Europe, edited by Thomas Austin and Angelos Koutsourakis, 150–63. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. file:///C:/Users/Gabri/Downloads/It_Could_Happen_to_You_Empathy_and_Empow%20(1).pdf.
———. 2022. ‘Historias de vida y paisajes alegóricos: estrategias de representación documental en el Cine Ibérico de la Austeridad’. Revista Cine Documental 24: 118–54.