Dr Matt Hilborn

📢 Delighted to announce that my book, "Film Comedy and Spain: Humour, Genre, and the Nation 1970-2020", is out!

Get your copy - or ask your library for one - here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Film-Comedy-Spain

Thanks to everyone who supported me through this process!

#NewBook #FilmStudies

New Pod!🎙️

Remember the Jenni Hermoso/Luis Rubiales "kiss"?

🎧 Palomitas explores feminist struggles in Spanish docs:
📽️ No estás sola (fighting the "Wolf Pack")
⚽ #SeAcabó (women’s football revolution)
Special guest Dr. Abigail Loxham @abigail
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr3vaz5x

#WomensFootball #MeToo #SeAcabó

So much of the discourse surrounding James Gunn's #Superman reminds me of his Spanish parody, #Superlópez (2018). Extracts from my new book, "Film Comedy and Spain: Humour, Genre, and the Nation 1970-2020"! #superheroes #filmstudies #newbook www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

🚩Wrapping up #SpottingRedFlagsSymposium! Thanks to the brilliant presenters, keynote Mary Harrod, our sponsors @baftss.bsky.social, @officialbaas.bsky.social, @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social & all attendees! Special thanks to my co-organizers @victoriapistivsek.bsky.social & @sarahlahmtv.bsky.social ❤️

🚩Time for our keynote at the #SpottingRedFlagsSymposium! Mary Harrod @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social speaks on romance without ethics in the digital age

🚩Panel 4 - HAPPILY NEVER EVER AFTERS - of #SpottingRedFlagsSymposium twists our happy endings! Queer Qs & Saltburn (Anamarija Horvat) @northumbriauni.bsky.social, Killer Hit Man (Vernon Shetley) @wellesley.edu, Interracial romance (Zélie Asava), reinventing Bergman Island (@cinemariasf.bsky.social)

🚩Panel 3 of the #SpottingRedFlagsSymposium will give us a reality TV check! MAFS & hidden abuse? (Anna Dawson), Decoding lesbian toxicity? (@polinazelm.bsky.social & Ellie Smith) @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social @, Redeemable fboys? (@victoriapistivsek.bsky.social) @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social

🚩Panel 2 of #SpottingRedFlagsSymposium - GENDERED TOXICITIES: Godrèche rediscovered (Catherine Fowler) @universityofotago.bsky.social, toxic motherhood (Lingjun Wang) @leedsunimedia.bsky.social, Ghosting & gaslighting (Martin Hall) @yorkstjohn.bsky.social, Teens, TikTok, & desire (Lorenza Parisi)

🚩Panel 1 of #SpottingRedFlagsSymposium - RED FLAG POLITICS - gets us right into the danger zone! Slaps vs slugs (Catherine Wheatley) @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social, Gentrification in rom-com drag (Harriet Idle), Creep time (Louis Bayman), Tradwife Toxicity (Matthew Hilborn) @ucddublin.bsky.social

🚩The #SpottingRedFlagsSymposium kicks off today @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social! Stay tuned for live updates!
Organized by @victoriapistivsek.bsky.social & @sarahlahmtv.bsky.social & myself
Sponsored by @baftss.bsky.social & @officialbaas.bsky.social & @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social

I was thrilled to launch my book "Film Comedy and Spain" - out next month! - at @humorsofias.bsky.social in Santiago!

The book interrogates Spanish film comedy as a contested site of national identity formation, tracing its evolution from late Francoism to the polarised present!
#FilmStudies

Jilly Kay kick us off at the "Reactionary Politics, Women, and Feminist Critique" symposium at @lborouniversity.bsky.social!

Come to our symposium on Red Flags! 🚩🚩🚩 June 9, 2025 - with keynote from Prof Mary Harrod!

Flavita Banana, cartoonist for El País, kicks us off at @humorsofias.bsky.social 2025!

4. Mi querida cofradía (Marta Díaz de Lope Díaz, 2018) (with Erin K Hogan) Palomitas · Episode

🎙️ Following the conclave (and Conclave)? New #Palomitas digs into feminist farce "Mi querida cofradía" (Marta Díaz, 2018) - where a woman (shock horror!) is determined to win the election to lead her religious order... With expert Erin K Hogan!
#SpanishCinema
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Late posting, but I had a terrific time at the "Psychobiddies, Harpies and Hags: Interrogating Ageing and Gender on Screen" Symposium at the Watershed, Bristol! Josephine Dolan, Hannah Hamad, Deborah Jermyn, and Estella Tincknell spoke about 'doing age', and the 'double jeopardy' of age + gender

This shot from The White Lotus... It's giving Ophelia - specifically John Everett Millais' 1852 painting.

Want to explore Ophelia's visual legacy, from Vertigo, to Twin Peaks, and beyond?

Ophelia Through Time (2025) - out now tinyurl.com/5b786uhj 📚
#Ophelia #ArtHistory #FilmAnalysis #TheWhiteLotus

🍿 Love Spanish cinema? Meet Palomitas - the English-language podcast on Spanish films with world-class scholars!

🎧 Latest: Holy Camp! (2017), Spanish Affair (2014) (w/ exclusive filmmaker interviews), Volver (2006)
🔥 Coming: Netflix docs on feminisms, Hopelessly Devout (2018)
shorturl.at/TkXXt

Had a fantastic time at #AHGBI2025 @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social ! 🎉

Our roundtable explored Marginalised Voices in Iberian TV & Streaming - I focused on romcoms & whose love stories actually get told 💘📺

Now more than ever, sharing time, space, & research with fellow Humanities scholars is vital!

Hi Isabel! A hybrid option may be possible... I'll keep you posted with any updates! Thanks for your interest :)

Professor @sarahwright.bsky.social, President of the @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social, kicks us off for AHGBI 2025 at @edinburghup.bsky.social!

Looking forward to this exciting symposium "Reactionary Politics, Women and Feminist Critique", organised by @jillybkay.bsky.social at @lborouniversity.bsky.social, in May! I'm speaking on the political mobilisation and ironic aesthetics of #RoRo, the Spanish tradwife (or tradgf?) cooking influencer

Can't wait for Humor-sofías this year! What a stellar line-up!

Huge congratulations, Polina! What a timely and innovative piece of research - hope you celebrate to the max!

3. Volver (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006) (with Prof Sarah Wright & Dr Miguel García) Palomitas · Episode

Ep 3 of my podcast #Palomitas is out! Explore VOLVER (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006) with *2* world experts: @sarahwright.bsky.social (Professor, Royal Holloway University) and Dr Miguel García (Senior Lecturer, Bristol University). This was such a fun, edifying discussion! open.spotify.com/episode/5TUa...

Only 2.5% of private rentals in England affordable on housing benefit, study finds Exclusive: Charities say freeze to housing benefit will push more people into rent arrears and homelessness Only 2.5% of private rented homes in England were affordable for people on housing benefit last year, with charities warning that more people will be pushed into rent arrears and homelessness as a freeze on the benefit takes effect. From Tuesday, housing benefit rates will be locked at current rates until 2026, affecting 5.7m households on low income which rely on it to cover rent. Continue reading...

Only 2.5% of private rentals in England affordable on housing benefit, study finds

This was such a fun panel for the @screeningsex.bsky.social SIG at #BAFTSS2025 with @polinazelm.bsky.social, Donna Peberdy, and Belén Salinas Torres! I discussed the representation of hook-up apps and their media archaelogies in recent Spanish romantic comedies on streaming

Nine working-class creatives on class in the arts – and how they made it As artists call for better access to the arts, Sally Wainwright, Steven Knight, Larry Achiampong and others speak out

Huge investigation on class and the creative industries in @theguardian.com with some superb work from @lanre-bakare.bsky.social & team www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... & www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... & www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

We're excited to be at the British Association of Film, Television & Screen Studies Conference 2025! 📽️📺

Visit the EUP stand to meet Kelly O'Brien, our Senior Assistant Editor for Film Studies, check out our books and enjoy exclusive conference discounts! 💸

#BAFTSS2025 @baftss.bsky.social

Absolutely barnstorming panel at #BAFTSS2025 on 'Feel-Bad TV', featuring @sarahlahmtv.bsky.social, @victoriapistivsek.bsky.social, and @lrjdmnr.bsky.social!