José Arroyo
principal Teaching Fellow
Film Study
The University of Warwick
United Kingdom
Biography
José Arroyo studied Economics at McGill University, Film Studies at the University of East Anglia and Communications at Simon Fraser University. He is co-founder of The Montreal Mirror and was awarded the AQEC-Oliveri Prize for Best Text Written on Film in 1989 for ‘John Grierson and the War for Men’s Minds’. He has been a columnist on gay culture for Angles in Vancouver and ‘The Wide Lens’ column for The Conversation. He has contributed film criticism to a range of media outlets including Sight and Sound magazine, Front Row on Radio 4, The Cinema Show/ The DVD Collection for BBC TV and many others. José has taught Film Studies at a variety of places, including Concordia University in Montreal, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Ramon Llull University in Barcelona and EICTV in Cuba. He currently blogs on film at notesonfilm1.com.
Research Interest
film aesthetics, film criticism, queer cinema and the films of Pedro Almodóvar.
Publications
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Medhurst A, Munt S. Lesbian and gay studies: A critical introduction. Cassell; 1997 Oct 23.
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Martindale S. An investigation of the status of ‘Shakespeare’, and the ways in which this is manifested in audience responses, with specific reference to three late-1990s Shakespearean films.
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Tasker Y, editor. Fifty contemporary film directors. Routledge; 2010 Oct 4.
