Rosana Vivar Navas, Ph.D.
Department of Communication
Education
- Ph.D. in Communication (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
- M.A. in Humanities and Cultural Analysis (Universidad Carlos III, Spain)
- B.A. Media Studies (Universidad Carlos III, Spain)
Practice Areas
My research focuses on film exhibition (film events and film festivals in particular) and subcultural film audiences. I have conducted longitudinal research on different film festivals and film events across Spain. My latest work involves the study of female participation in horror film events, and the study of collective film viewing practices in rural areas.
- Media Audiences
- Media Ethnography
- Film Festivals and Film Subcultures
- Transmedia Storytelling
Publications and Media Placements
Journal Articles
Vivar, R. & S煤arez-Canedo, L.R. (2020). "Festival de Cans: Rethinking the Film Festival
through Parody in Rural Galicia", , 5, 122-138.
Vivar, R (Jan 2018). "Las fiestas del cine: nostalgia, exclusividad y ocasi贸n en el
cine-evento en Espa帽a", Vol. 47, Issue 1, January 2018. ISSN-e: 2529-9913.
Vivar, R. (May 2016). "A Film Bacchanal: Playfulness and Audience Sovereignty in San
Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival", Vol.13, Issue 1, May 2016. ISSN: 1749-8716.
Conference Presentations
2023 "Historias de Cans. Archiving the Future of a Film Festival". RESOURCE: The 10th
International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Sciences and Technology. Organized
by the Venice Center for Digital and Public Humanities, Universidad Ca'Foscari, Venice,
13-17 September 2023.
2021. Seminar presentation at the online seminar "Film Festival Research in the Iberoamerican
Sphere", organized by the Film Festivals Research Network, online seminar, April 23,
2021.
2018. "Ethnomethodologies. Everything you always wanted to know but never dared to
ask", European Network for cinema and Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, 27-29 June.
2017. Round Table Discussion: Film Festivals: Cultures, Aesthetics and Politics. Live
Cinema Symposium, Kings College London, UK, December 15.
2017. "Festivales en la Frontera. Hacia una definici贸n de los Festivales Cinematogr谩ficos
como Experiencias Transmediales". II Congreso Internacional Narrativas Transmediales, Universidad de Granada, December 1.
2017. "'Festivalbloggers': amplificando la voz del testimonio cin茅filo en festivales".
Congreso Internacional TECMERIN, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. October 18-20.
2017. "Nowadays is not only the girlfriends that come: Exploring gender roles at Spanish
cult film events". European Network for cinema and Media Studies, Universit茅 Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, June 29-July 1.
2016. "Together Forever After? Cinephilia and Sense of Community in Film Events. The
Case of Gij贸n International Film Festival". Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA), Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, January 6-8.
2015. "Cinephilia takes the streets: a cinephile's uprising at Gij贸n International
Film Festival/FICXix贸n". Audiovisualopia. A Conference on the Contemporary Screen Scene. Department of Communication, Saint Louis University Madrid, October 23-24.
2014. "An uncouth fiesta. Cult film fandom and creative audiences in Spain". Producers and Audiences Conference. Department of Communication and Media. University of Lund, Sweden, March 20.
2014. "San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival: an examination of the play-
element in cult film fandom". Holy Crap! Intersections of the Popular and the Sacred in Youth Cultures. Finnish
Youth Research Society and Network. University of Helsinki, Finland, August 28-29.
2014. "Cult Film Fandom and Festivity in Spain: San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film
Festival". Fan Studies Network Conference. East Anglia University, UK, November 29.
Book Chapters
Vivar, R. (2019). "'It all comes down to your voice'": Female Participation and Gender
Identities in Horror Film Festivals, in Samantha Holland, Robert Shail, Steven Gerrard,
Gender and Horror. Emerald (in preparation).
Vivar, R. (2017). "Never seen a shot like that before! Playfulness and participatory
audiences in San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival." Sarah Atkinson & Helen
W. Kennedy, Live Cinema: Cultures, Economies, Aesthetics. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN: 9781501324833.
Book Reviews
(2018). Review: The Audience Effect. On the Collective Cinema Experience, by Julian Hanich. Secuencias. Revista de Historia del Cine, no. 47.