Rob Stone

Professor Rob Stone is Chair of European Cinema and Professor of Film Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK, where he co-directs B-Film: The Birmingham Centre for Film Studies.

He has published widely on European, Spanish, Basque, Cuban and independent American cinema and is the author of Spanish Cinema (2001), The Wounded Throat: Flamenco in the Works of Federico Garcia Lorca and Carlos Saura (2004), Julio Medem (2007) and Walk, Don’t Run: The Cinema of Richard Linklater (2013, 2nd edn 2018). He also co-authored Basque Cinema: A Cultural and Political History (2016) and Cine Vasco (2016), and co-edited The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism on Film (2007), Screening Songs in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema (2013), A Companion to Luis Buñuel (2013), Screening European Heritage (2016), The Routledge Companion to World Cinema (2017) and Sense8: Transcending Television (2021).