Manuel Garin is Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, where he completed his PhD thesis on visual humor, later published as a book: El gag visual. De Buster Keaton a Super Mario (Cátedra, 2014). He has been visiting scholar at different institutions like the Tokyo University of The Arts, the University of Southern California and Columbia University, where he developed the comparative media projects Gameplaygag: Between Silent Film and New Media and A Hundred Busters, financed by competitive public grants. His research on cinema, art history and new media has been published in scientific journals such as International Journal of Cultural Studies, Communication & Society, Feminist Media Studies, EMP, L’Atalante, EPI or Comparative Cinema, and in books from Oxford University Press, The MIT Press, ABC-Clio, Mimesis, Intermedio, UOC Press or Edicions 62. As a cultural critic, he has written for magazines such as La Maleta de Portbou, Rockdelux, Contrapicado or Cultura/s - La Vanguardia. Trained as a musician, he holds the Professional Degree in Piano and an MFA in Film Scoring from ESMUC Music School. Currently, he is editing the digital humanities project A Hundred Busters: Keaton Across The Arts, about the influence of Buster Keaton on different artists throughout the last century. Contacto: manuel.garin@upf.edu.
