Lecturer

Email: jesus.urda@tudublin.ie

Tel: 01 2205506

Qualifications

Ph.D Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin, School of Creative Arts

Thesis title: "Juan Antonio Bardem: A Cinema in the Interstices of Cinema"

BA [Hons] English Studies, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

MA Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, UCM, Madrid, Spain

C.A.P [Spanish Equivalent to High Diploma in Education], Ministry of Education, Spain

MA Film Studies and Screenwriting, NUIG, Galway, Ireland

Previous Appointments

Assistant Lecturer, Spanish, Further Education Section, Charles de Gaulle University, Lille III, France

Language Assistant, Spanish Department, NUIG, Galway, Ireland

Lecturer, Spanish Department, NUIM, Maynooth, Ireland

Assistant Lecturer, School of Languages, DIT, Dublin

Publications

Publications (articles and book chapters)

• Urda, Jesús. (2020). “Cine negro, pastiche y apropiación de autoría en Muerte de un ciclista (J.A. Bardem, 1955).” In Martín Escribà, Alex, & Sánchez Zapatero, Javier coord. (2020).
• La expansión del género negro. Santiago de Compostela-A Coruña: Andavira Editora. [p. 423-430]

• Urda, Jesús. (2019). ““¿Qué hay de lo mío?”: Deseos, frustraciones y resignación en el cine de comedia social y/o negra de los años 50 y 60.” Mosaico: 37. (2019). Consejería de Educación en Bélgica, Países Bajos y Luxemburgo/ Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional de España. [p. 63-76.] Available online: https://sede.educacion.gob.es/publiventa/ImageServlet?img=E-23546.jpg

• Urda, Jesús. (2018). “M [Mattheu Chedid]: Le Petit Prince of French Rock”. In Abecassis, Michaël ed. An Anthology of French and Francophone Singers from A to Z: “Singin’ in French.” Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [p. 413-419]

• (2015). 'Images and Voices from Beyond the National: How the 'Trans' Affected Spanishness in the Cinema of J.A. Bardem.' SAH, Vol. 1, Issue 2, pp. 24-38 (link to http://sahjournal.com/index.php/sah/article/view/33)

• “Entrevista con José Luís Garci” [Article and Interview of Oscar-winner Spanish director], Desde el árbol gordo , Número11,June 2013,  ISSN 1889-0318

• “Una de pistoleros”, Desde el árbol gordo,Número 2, December 2008, ISSN 1889-0318

• “De cine y de hombres”, Desde el árbol gordo,Número1,June 2008,  ISSN 1889-0318

• El Patio de Peter Pan, dir.: Jesús Urda, [DVD compilation] “Hecho en Castilla la Mancha/Made in Castilla la Mancha  2010”, JCCM.

Papers

• ‘No Man’s land: Bardem’s hybrid stance’, European Cinema Forum, Exeter University, June, 2010

• ‘Baroque glances at society: the appropriation of decoupage, depth of field, pan-focus and the long take in the early films by J. A. Bardem’, Film Studies Postgraduate Forum, TCD, September, 2008

• ‘Calle Mayor and American Melodrama’, Film Studies Postgraduate Conference, Trinity College Dublin, 2007

• ‘Bardem’s Death of a Cyclist (1955): The Ugly Face of Franco’s Spain’, Ireland’s Postgraduates Symposium, UCD, 2006

• ‘Death of a Cyclist: a New Direction for Spanish Cinema’, UCD Postgraduate Conference, 2006

• ‘War Memories, Violence and Social Pathology in Saura’s La Caza’, Conference on War Memories and Violence in Contemporary Spain, UCC, Cork, 2005

• Workshop on The Use of Video in the Spanish Language Classroom, Instituto Cervantes, Dublin, May 2004

• Seminar on Authentic Video Materials in the Language Classroom,  Universidad Complutense  Madrid, July, 2002

Film and TV-series reviews:

“Antidisturbios (2020). La vulnerabilidad de los fuertes.”. November 17, 2020.

www.rockandfilms.es. Available online:

https://rockandfilms.es/series/critica-de-antidisturbios-2020-la-vulnerabilidad-de-los-fuertes/

“El hombre invisible (2020). De H.G. Wells al #MeToo.” March 9, 2020. www.rockandfilms.es. Available online:

https://rockandfilms.es/cine/critica-de-el-hombre-invisible-2020-de-h-g-wells-al-metoo/

 “Reina de corazones (2019). A través de la madriguera.” March 3, 2020. www.rockandfilms.es. Available online:

https://rockandfilms.es/cine/critica-de-reina-de-corazones-2019-a-traves-de-la-madriguera/

“Jojo Rabbit (2019). Carcajadas y lágrimas.” January 23, 2020.

www.rockandfilms.es. Available online:

https://rockandfilms.es/cine/critica-de-jojo-rabbit-2019-carcajadas-y-lagrimas/

"1917 (2020). Ocho horas en la Primera Guerra Mundial.” January 14, 2020. www.rockandfilms.es. Available online:

https://rockandfilms.es/cine/critica-de-1917-2020-ocho-horas-en-la-primera-guerra-mundial/.

Research Interests

Spanish cinema, European cinema, Transnational cinema, pastiche, intertextuality, influence and authorship in cinema, aesthetics, language, translation, dubbing and identity in film.