Dr Matt Hilborn
@matthewhilborn.bsky.social
Film Comedy Researcher, University College Dublin
Film Comedy and Spain: Humour, Genre, and the Nation 1970-2020 (Legenda, 2025) - order now!
Writing on 21st-century rom com (film/TV) in Spain
Film Comedy and Spain: Humour, Genre, and the Nation 1970-2020 (Legenda, 2025) - order now!
Writing on 21st-century rom com (film/TV) in Spain
📢 My chapter is out in Feminismos e Humor! I analyse Javier Fesser's "Ayoub's birthday", from his Unfortunate Stories (2020) as a romcom gone wrong, inverting national myths to critique historical amnesia RE Spain's "de-Africanization".
Full ebook: €5!
tinyurl.com/56bhesuf
#SpanishFilm #FilmStudies
Full ebook: €5!
tinyurl.com/56bhesuf
#SpanishFilm #FilmStudies
October 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
📢 My chapter is out in Feminismos e Humor! I analyse Javier Fesser's "Ayoub's birthday", from his Unfortunate Stories (2020) as a romcom gone wrong, inverting national myths to critique historical amnesia RE Spain's "de-Africanization".
Full ebook: €5!
tinyurl.com/56bhesuf
#SpanishFilm #FilmStudies
Full ebook: €5!
tinyurl.com/56bhesuf
#SpanishFilm #FilmStudies
The paperback of Ophelia Through Time: Reimaginings in Art and Film (by Prof Carolina Sanabria, translated & edited by me, with a co-written Intro) is out now via Cambridge Scholars! 📖
£32.99 - or ask me nicely for a cheeky further discount 😉
Buy here: cambridgescholars.com/product/978-...
£32.99 - or ask me nicely for a cheeky further discount 😉
Buy here: cambridgescholars.com/product/978-...
October 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The paperback of Ophelia Through Time: Reimaginings in Art and Film (by Prof Carolina Sanabria, translated & edited by me, with a co-written Intro) is out now via Cambridge Scholars! 📖
£32.99 - or ask me nicely for a cheeky further discount 😉
Buy here: cambridgescholars.com/product/978-...
£32.99 - or ask me nicely for a cheeky further discount 😉
Buy here: cambridgescholars.com/product/978-...
Yesterday UCD's Newman Building was transformed by 'Metamorphosis' - a giant inflatable sculpture by Olga Diego. Students & staff drew and performed on this reusable plastic canvas, turning art into a living act of sustainability. Kudos colleagues Ana Vera & Eva Bru-Domínguez! @ucdslcl.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Yesterday UCD's Newman Building was transformed by 'Metamorphosis' - a giant inflatable sculpture by Olga Diego. Students & staff drew and performed on this reusable plastic canvas, turning art into a living act of sustainability. Kudos colleagues Ana Vera & Eva Bru-Domínguez! @ucdslcl.bsky.social
A pulsating panel on self-representing streaming services at ECREA 2025! I spoke about how Netflix Spain comedies about sex & intimacy incorporate Netflix itself into their own diegesis! #loveirishresearch
September 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
A pulsating panel on self-representing streaming services at ECREA 2025! I spoke about how Netflix Spain comedies about sex & intimacy incorporate Netflix itself into their own diegesis! #loveirishresearch
What an amazing panel on gender and the body in Spanish cinema at @acis46.bsky.social! Thanks to the organisers for such a stimulating conference 😍
September 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
What an amazing panel on gender and the body in Spanish cinema at @acis46.bsky.social! Thanks to the organisers for such a stimulating conference 😍
Terrific first day of @acis46.bsky.social, sharing conversation and good food with Hispanists from right across the globe! And all in one of my favourite Spanish cities: Santiago de Compostela :)
September 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Terrific first day of @acis46.bsky.social, sharing conversation and good food with Hispanists from right across the globe! And all in one of my favourite Spanish cities: Santiago de Compostela :)
📢 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
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
July 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
📢 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
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
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
July 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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
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...
July 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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...
🚩Time for our keynote at the #SpottingRedFlagsSymposium! Mary Harrod @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social speaks on romance without ethics in the digital age
June 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
🚩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)
June 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
🚩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
June 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🚩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)
June 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🚩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
June 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🚩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
Organized by @victoriapistivsek.bsky.social & @sarahlahmtv.bsky.social & myself
Sponsored by @baftss.bsky.social & @officialbaas.bsky.social & @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
🚩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
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
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
May 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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
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!
May 21, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Jilly Kay kick us off at the "Reactionary Politics, Women, and Feminist Critique" symposium at @lborouniversity.bsky.social!
Flavita Banana, cartoonist for El País, kicks us off at @humorsofias.bsky.social 2025!
May 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Flavita Banana, cartoonist for El País, kicks us off at @humorsofias.bsky.social 2025!
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
May 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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
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
May 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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
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
🎧 Latest: Holy Camp! (2017), Spanish Affair (2014) (w/ exclusive filmmaker interviews), Volver (2006)
🔥 Coming: Netflix docs on feminisms, Hopelessly Devout (2018)
shorturl.at/TkXXt
April 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🍿 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
🎧 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!
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!
April 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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!
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!
Professor @sarahwright.bsky.social, President of the @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social, kicks us off for AHGBI 2025 at @edinburghup.bsky.social!
April 7, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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
April 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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
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
March 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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