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Valeria Camporesi
Valeria Camporesi (Bologna, Italy, 1957) is Associate Professor of Film and Audiovisual Media History in the Art History and Theory Department of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She is also coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in Film History of the same University. Her current research interests range from extensive and intensive analyses of representations of Spanish cultural identity in film history (an overall approach can be found in her book Para grandes y chicos. Un cine para los españoles, 1940-1990, Turfán, 1994); transnational aspects of Spanish cinema; historical approaches to intertextuality in European film history; analysis of changing patterns of verisimilitude in production and reception of audiovisual media; contemporary cinema and film theory; film, video and television in European cinema since the 1960s. Since July 2009 she is Deputy Vicechancellor for Culture of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
She has been working on media and history ever since her undergraduate years at the University of Bologna (Italy) where she graduated with a tesi di laurea on 'Lawrence of Arabia and the Myth of the Imperial Hero in Britain' which has been partially published in a number of essays and featured in specialized journals. Author of a book on British reactions to Americanization in broadcasting history in the inter-war years (Mass Culture and National Traditions. The BBC and American Broadcasting, 1922-1954, European Press Academic Publishing, 2001), since 1989 she lives and works in Madrid.