Barbara Zecchi

Roles:
Author, Editor, Reviewer, Copyeditor, Proofreader, Reader

Affiliation:
Professor, Film Studies, University Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Country:
United States

Biography

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Zecchi is Professor and Director of the Film Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is a feminist film scholar, film festival curator, and video-essayist, specializing in Iberian and Latin American cinemas. She has taught at various universities across Europe and the U.S. lecturing as well as publishing on an extensive range of topics, such as women in film, feminist film theory, aging studies, and videographic criticism. In addition to over 100 articles and 50 video essays, she is the author, editor, or co-editor of 11 books, such as Desenfocadas (Women Out of Focus, Icaria 2014), listed by the El Diario as one of 13 books that have defined a decade, La pantalla sexuada (The Gendered Screen, Cátedra 2015) and Gender-Based Violence in Latin American and Iberian Cinemas (Routledge, 2020, co-edited with Rebeca Maseda, and José María Gámez Fuentes). She has organized international conferences as well as co-founded the international research network CinemAGEnder. She is the founder and director of the open access project "Gynocine: Women Filmmakers, Feminism, and Film Studies" she launched in 2011 —an online database with unique resources related to the works of women filmmakers around the world. In 2017, she was elected Associate Member of the Film Academy of Spain. A prolific video-essayist, her works have appeared in the Sight and Sound lists of best video essays of 2023, 2022, and 2021.  She joined the editorial team of [in]Transition in 2022.

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