Dr Bryan Cameron

Bryan Cameron’s research centers on modern Spanish culture with a focus on literary, filmic, and ideological production from the eighteenth century to the present. Bryan’s first book-length project, entitled Paternity Tests: Destabilized Authority in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Spanish Novel, examines fraught representations of patrilineal succession in works by Leopoldo Alas (“Clarín”), Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Narcís Oller, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Benito Pérez Galdós, and Alejandro Sawa. The second, entitled Beyond Dystopia: Reclaiming the Future in Crisis and Post-Crisis Cinema from Spain, 2008-2018, analyzes the ways in which Spanish filmmakers have searched for new tools – conceptual, historical, and aesthetic – to imagine a reality that lies beyond the cultural embeddedness of crisis over the last decade. Bryan has also worked on cultural output from crisis Spain and post-crisis Spain, and has conducted research on protest movements such as the 15-M, narrative and documentary cinema, and visual print media from 1975 to the present. 

Dr Cameron welcomes inquiries from potential MPhil and PhD students with research interests relevant to his interests.

Published works: 

Articles:

“Emergent Visions in Film and Screen Media from Contemporary Catalonia,” co-authored with Ignasi Gozalo Salellas, "Emergent Visions in Film and Screen Media from Contemporary Catalonia, Journal of Catalan Studies," Cameron and Gozalo Salellas, eds. 24.1 (Winter 2024): 1-10.

“Neoliberal Frictions: Proximity in and beyond the Workplace in the Films of Neus Ballús,” "Emergent Visions in Film and Screen Media from Contemporary Catalonia, Journal of Catalan Studies," Cameron and Gozalo Salellas, eds. 24.1 (Winter 2024): 1-20.

“Ambition and the Bleak Legacy of Liberal Thought in Benito Pérez Galdós’ La Fontana de Oro (1871),” Romance Notes 64:2 (2024): 89-100.

“Complaint and the Bourbon Monarchy in (Post-)Recessionary Cinema from Spain,” Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Antonio Córdoba, Daniel García-Donoso, and Carlos Varón González, eds. (2024): 869-896.

“The Persistence of Neocolonial Logic in Fernando León de Aranoa’s Amador (2010),” Postcolonial Spain: Coloniality, Violence, and Independence, Helena Miguélez-Carballeira, ed. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2024. 49-65.

“Introduction: Mobilizing Affect in Spanish Film and Screen Media from the Great Recession to the Present,” "Mobilizing Affect in Spanish Film and Screen Media from the Great Recession to the Present," Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas, Bryan Cameron, ed. 19:3 (2022): 275-281. 

“Border Politics: Migrant Melodramas from the Great Recession to the Present,” "Mobilizing Affect in Spanish Film and Screen Media from the Great Recession to the Present," Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas, Bryan Cameron, ed. 19:3 (2022): 353-370.

“Introduction: "Out of the Gutter: The Politics of Dissent in Visual Print Media from the Spanish Transition to the Present." ” Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies 4.2 (2020): 175-185.

“Elliptical Life in (Post) Crisis Cinema from Spain.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, special issue entitled Interrogating Critical Fields in Spanish Cultural Studies, edited by Jo Labanyi, 22.2 (Summer 2021): 247-260.

“Documenting Podemos and the Rise of DIY Politics in Fernando León de Aranoa's Politica, manual de instrucciones (2016).” Hispanic Research Journal 20.5 (2019): 58-72

“Crowd Control: Populism, Public Assembly, Institutional Crises, and Pere Portabella’s Informe general II (2015).” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 21 (2017): 159-185.

“‘Yo procedo por explosión violenta y ruidosamente’: Re-Reading the Political in Vicente Blasco Ibáñez’s fin-de-siècle Journalistic Production.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 95.6 (2018): 617-636.

“Spain in Crisis: 15-M and the Culture of Indignation.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 15.1/15.2 (Spring / Summer 2014): 1-11.

“Stillborn Texts: Competing Pregnancies in Leopoldo ‘Clarín’ Alas’s Su único hijo (1891).” Revista Hispánica Moderna 67.2 (Winter 2014): 143-161.

“Narcotic Fictions: The Implosion of Narrative and Politics in Benito Pérez Galdós’s La incógnita/Realidad (1888-1889).” Decimonónica 10.2 (Summer 2013): 14-31.  

Special issues:

“Emergent Visions in Film and Screen Media from Contemporary Catalonia,” Journal of Catalan Studies, 25 (2024), co-edited by Bryan Cameron and Ignasi Gozalo Salellas, 180 pp.

“Mobilizing Affect in Spanish Film and Screen Media from the Great Recession to the Present,” Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas, 19.3 (2022), edited by Bryan Cameron, 129 pp.

“Out of the Gutter: The Politics of Dissent in Visual Print Media from the Spanish Transition to the Present,” Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, 4:2 (2020), co-edited by Bryan Cameron and Rhiannon McGlade, 148 pp.

“Spain in Crisis: 15-M and the Culture of Indignation,” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 15:1/15:2 (Spring/Summer 2014), edited by Bryan Cameron, 291 pp.