Ivan Pintor Iranzo got a PhD in Communication Studies from Universidad Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and is now senior lecturer at the same university and member of the Cinema Research Group. He currently teaches Contemporary cinema and evolution of visual languages in the Bachelor’s program in Audiovisual Communication at UPF, and Cinema, television and comic-book history in the UPF Master’s in Contemporary Film and Audiovisual Studies program. He has pursued research and teaching activities at different universities in Italy, Argentina and Colombia.
In recent years, he has published articles in journals and contributed to more than 40 books, including Motivos visuales del cine (2016), Cuerpos en fuga (2015), Werner Herzog (2015), Mad Men(2015), Endoapocalisse: The Walking Dead (2015), On the Edge of the Panel: Essays on Comics Criticism (2015) and Poéticas del gesto en el cine europeo contemporáneo (2013). His lines of research are: gestures in film, iconology and iconography, hermeneutics and myth criticism in film, comparative film studies, television series, sequential narrative, transmedia and intertextuality.I
