Dr Vladimir Rosas-Salazar, PhD in Film and Television Studies

Profile

I obtained a PhD in Film and Television Studies from the University of Warwick in 2024. In 2018, I earned an MA in Film and Screen Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London. I originally trained as a journalist, graduating from Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción (Chile) in 2007.

I have been a lecturer in Experimental Media and Film Aesthetics and Language at Chilean universities. Additionally, I have worked at Warwick’s Film and Television Department and the School of Cross-Faculty Studies.

Teaching

SML4006 Culture and Language (seminars in Spanish, Block 3)

SML6207 Labour in Latin American Culture

Research

Research Interests:

• Amateur and Underground Media.
• Political and Historical Memory in Film.
• Latin American and Global South Cinema.
• Documentary and First-Person Cinema.

Publications

Rosas-Salazar, V. (2025, in press). Fading Echoes: Remembering and Forgetting through Videotapes. [in]Transition.

Rosas-Salazar, V. (2024). Activating Dissident Memories: Video as a Tool for Resistance in Playback (Agustina Comedi, 2019).  Short Film Studies Journal, 14(1), 175-183.

Rosas-Salazar, V. (2024). ‘Not from Here, not from There: A First-Person Perspective on Chilean Exile in Cinema.’ in Agency, Mobility, Kinship: Representations of Migration Beyond Victimhood, edited by Lea Espinoza Garrido, Carolin Gebauer, and Julia Wewior. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Rosas-Salazar, V. (2024). From Aliens to Apartheid: Reimagining Segregation in Neill Blomkamp’s District 9. Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science, 57, 51-57.

Rosas-Salazar, V. (2023). Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World: Edited by Vania Barraza and Carl Fischer. Hispanic Research Journal: Iberian and Latin American Studies, 23(1), pp. 148-149. 

Rosas-Salazar, V. (2022). (Auto)biographical Documentaries as Audiovisual Microhistories of Pinochet's Chile. Iluminace, 34(1), 91-106.     

Rosas-Salazar, V., & Horta, L. (2021). Teaching Audiovisual Media in Chile: Problems and Challenges after COVID-19. Teaching Media Dossier. Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 60(8). 

Rosas, V., & Dittus, R. (2020). The autobiographical documentary: archive and montage to represent the self. Studies in Documentary Film, 15(3), 203-219. 

Rosas, V. (2020). Underground Media in Chile: Counterpublics in Dictatorship and Democracy. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 38(2), 116-146. 

Rosas, V. (2019). Estrategias brechtianas en “Agarrando Pueblo”, de Luis Ospina y Carlos Mayolo. Revista Chilena de Semiótica, 10, 149-159.

Rosas, V. (2019). The old media in the new media: a comparative study of the kinetoscope and the virtual reality headset. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 15(1), 23–34.