Alejandro Kelly-Hopfenblatt, 1984

Biography

Alejandro Kelly-Hopfenblatt holds a PhD in History and Theory of the Arts from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He is currently a Zemurray-Stone Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. His research is focused on the history of Latin American film industries, especially that of Argentina, and issues of cosmopolitanism, modernity and international commercialization. He is the author of Modernidad y teléfonos blancos: La comedia burguesa en el cine argentino de los años ’40 (Biblioteca ENERC-INCAA-Ciccus, 2019) and co-editor, with Nicolás Poppe, of En la cartelera: Cine y culturas cinematográficas en América Latina, 1896–2020 (Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2022).