Dr Cesar Albarran-Torres

Biography

César Albarrán-Torres is a Mexican-Australian scholar and film critic. He has been widely published in academic and non-academic titles as a film and literary critic, author and translator. His current research focuses on postcolonial identities and subjectivities in film and television, as well as the negotiations between social media and politics in Mexico, particularly concerning the drug cartels. He also researches the intersections between digital media, finance and gambling. He is the author of Digital Gambling: Theorizing Gamble-Play Media (Routledge, 2018) and Global Trafficking Networks on Film and Television: Hollywood’s Cartel Wars (Routledge, 2021). He is a research affiliate of the Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making, funded by the ARC. He is editor at the online journal Senses of Cinema. Available to supervise masters and doctoral students.