Elena Cordero Hoyo

ehoyo@campus.ul.pt

Project Iberian and Ibero-American Dialogues (DIIA) - LOCUS; Film, Audiovisual and Contemporary Imaginaries – CITCOM

Ciência ID1715-A4EA-F544

Elena Cordero Hoyo completed a PhD about women’s access to silent cinema in Portugal and Spain from the International PhD Programme in Comparative Studies (PhD-COMP) at the U. of Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities in 2022 in partnership with the U. Bologna (Italy) and KU Leuven (Belgium), with a PhD scholarship from the FCT (PD/BD/128075/2016).

She is member of CEComp and part of the working team of the following research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation: ‘Football and Visual Culture under Francoism: Discourses of Class, Gender and National Construction in Cinema, Newsreels and the Press, 1939-1975’ of the U. Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona (PID2020-116277GA-I00) and ‘Visiones del cuerpo enfermo en el cine y la fotografía: patologías físicas y psíquicas’, of the U. de Girona (PID2021-125555NBI00). Also, she is Chief Editor of Secuencias, an indexed online film history journal and Professor in the U. Rey Juan Carlos.


Areas of research

Film Studies
Silent Cinema / Early Cinema
Gender Studies
Iberian Cultural Studies


Selected publications

Cordero-Hoyo, E (2021). "Os primórdios do cinema (1895-1920)". In Nelson Araújo (ed) História do Cinema. Lisboa: Edições 70, pp. 19-41.

Cordero-Hoyo, E e Soto-Vázquez, B (eds.) (2020). Women in Iberian Filmic Culture. A Feminist Approach to the Cinemas of Spain and Portugal. Bristol, UK / Chicago, USA: Intellect Books. https://www.intellectbooks.com/women-in-iberian-filmic-cultures.

Cordero-Hoyo, E (2020). "Exploring the Portuguese Memory through Appropriation Film: A toca do lobo (Mourão, 2015)". In Elena Cordero-Hoyo e Begoña Soto-Vázquez Women in Iberian Filmic Culture. A Feminist Approach to the Cinemas of Spain and Portugal. Bristol, UK / Chicago, USA: Intellect Books, pp. 194-212. https://www.intellectbooks.com/women-in-iberian-filmic-cultures.

Cordero-Hoyo, E (2020). "Empreza de Films d’Arte Portugueza, una distribuidora a la conquista de Brasil", Vivomatografías. Revista de estudios sobre precine y cine silente en Latinoamérica, Buenos Aires, pp. 207-237. http://www.vivomatografias.com/index.php/vmfs/article/view/288.

Cordero-Hoyo, E e Soto-Vázquez, B (2018). "Women and the Shift from Theatre to Cinema in Spain: The Case of Helena Cortesina (1903–84)", Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, Vol. 45, issue 1, pp. 96-120. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748372718791996.

Cordero-Hoyo, E (2018). "Helena Cortesina". In Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, e Monica Dall’Asta (eds), Women Film Pioneers Project. Center for Digital Research and Scholarship. New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries, 2013. https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/helena-cortesina/.