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Jessica Balanzategui
Jessica Balanzategui is a Lecturer in Cinema and Screen Studies at Swinburne University of Technology. Jessica’s research examines the intersections between nostalgia, childhood, technological change and national identity in global entertainment, and the formal and aesthetic properties of the horror genre across different cultures and media. Jessica is also interested in cultural, historical and industrial negotiations between cultural institutions and entertainment industries, and she is currently leading an inter-disciplinary team at Swinburne across the fields of media, education and neuroscience to examine how digital technologies are reshaping our understandings of children’s play. Her work has appeared in refereed journals such as Studies in Australasian Cinema and Horror Studies and in edited collections published by Palgrave Macmillan, McFarland and Lexington. Her book, The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema: Ghosts of Futurity in the Twenty-First Century, is under contract with Amsterdam University Press.