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JOSÉ M. CAPARRÓS-LERA
is professor of film history at the University of Barcelona, chairman of the
Centre for Cinematic Research FILM-HISTORIA, and editor of the journal
FILM-HISTORIA Online. A specialist on the cinema of the Second Republic, he
has published over twenty books, including El cine español de la
democracia (1992), 100 grandes directores del cine (1994),
100 peliculas sobre Historia Contemporánea (1997), and
La guerra de Vietnam: Entre la historia y el cine (1998),
and Breve historia del cine americano. De Edison a Spielberg
(2002). He
was vice-president of the International Association for Media and History
(IAMHIST). He is a member of the Spanish
Academy of Film Arts and Sciences and has lectured in the United States,
United Kingdom, France, Russia, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Morocco, and Israel.
email: filmhistoria@yahoo.es.
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RAFAEL DE ESPAÑA is director of the Centre for Cinematic
Research FILM-HISTORIA, associate editor of the journal FILM-HISTORIA,
and author of numerous essays on historical films and the books
The Spanish Cinema: An Historical Approach (1987), Directory
of Spanish and Portuguese Filmmakers and Films (1994), El
Peplum: La antigüedad en el cine (1997), and Las sombras
del encuentro. España y América: Cuatro siglos
de Historia a través del cine (2002). He has lectured in the
United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, Russia, and Israel.
email: rafadespana@mixmail.com.
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MAGÍ CRUSELLS (Phd) teaches history at a Barcelona high
school. He is secretary of the Centre for Cinematic Research FILM-HISTORIA
(Scientific Park of Barcelona), and managing editor of the journal
FILM-HISTORIA ONLINE. A specialist on the cinema of the Spanish Civil
War and the International Brigades, he is author of the books El cine en
Cataluña. Una aproximación histórica (1993),
The Beatles, Una filmografía musical (1995), La Guerra Civil española:
cine y propaganda(2000), and Las Brigadas Internacionales en la pantalla (2001).
email: crusells@yahoo.es.
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CARL J. MORA
has been teaching film history at the University
of New Mexico since 1990. He introduced the first
courses in Latin American, Mexican, and Spanish cinema
at that institution. He is also
author of Mexican Cinema:
Reflections of a Society, 1896-1988
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1st ed, 1982,
2nd ed, 1990), the standard English-language reference on
Mexican filmmaking. He has written numerous articles on
Mexican, Latin American, Spanish, and international cinema.
He is the website editor for FILM-HISTORIA Online
as he was for previous print editions. He organized and
directed two international film seminars at the University
of Barcelona in 1993 and 1997. In 1999, he was invited to
teach a course on film and music at
the University of Salamanca. From February to April
2002, he coordinated and presented a series of eight Mexican
films at the Albuquerque Museum in conjunction with
the traveling exhibit "Return to Aztlan" from the Los Angeles County Museum.
email:
xenamora@hotmail.com.
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ROBERT A. ROSENSTONE, Professor of History at the California Institute of
Technology (Pasadena, USA), spent two decades writing history on the page before
becoming interested in history on the screen. Author of many articles and books,
including the award-winning Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed
(which became the basis of the motion picture Reds, 1981, dir. Warren Beatty),
he was asked to create a film section for the American Historical Review (1989-1994).
His most recent publications are Revisioning History: Film and the Construction of a
New Past (editor), and Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of
History (Harvard University Press, 1995).
email: rr@hss.caltech.edu.
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JOHN MRAZ, Research Professor of the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico).
Author of several historical videotape documentaries, his
most recent publications include Uprooted: Braceros in the
Hermanos Mayo Lens (1996).
He was Guest Editor of two journals: Visual Culture in Latin America (Tel Aviv
University, 1998), and "Cinema and History in Latin America"
(FILM-HISTORIA, University of Barcelona, 1999).
email: elijohn@infosel.net.mx.
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