Publications

Throughout my career, I have carried out extensive research with numerous publications in national and international academic journals. My studies primarily focus on cinema, literature, and memory studies, exploring their connections to culture and society. In addition to my academic work, I have also written fiction and poetry, experimenting with other forms of storytelling and personal expression.

Academic Publications
Fiction
Poetry
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Academic Publications

Papers

  • Martín Sanz, Á. and Pascual Cordero, L. (2024). The Ages of Lulú: From Female Eroticism in Grandes to Male Voyeurism in Bigas Luna. Revista Chilena de Literatura, 110, 43-68.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2023). Survival of the Myth of the Vampire in Love. Feminist Resistance in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. Brumal. Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 11 (1), 289-311.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2023). Distancing Memory. The Failure of the Anti-Trauma Strategy in The Blondes de Albertina Carri. Hispanic Research Journal, 23 (1), 122-138.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2023). Traumatized Animations. The Benjaminian Dialectical Image in Flee (2021). Con A de Animación, 16, 24-39.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2023). Reinterpreting Berlanga. The Good Boss as a comedy of otherness. Fotocinema. Revista Científica de Cine y Fotografía, 26, 263-286.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2022). The Expansion of Transmedia in the Fantasy Genre: From Matrix to Gravity Falls, El Ministerio del Tiempo and Stranger Things. Signo y Pensamiento, 41, 1-16.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2022). Poetics of Nationalism. Lyricism and Digital Image in Nostalgia for the Light by Patricio Guzmán. Hispanófila: Ensayos de Literatura, 195, 61-76.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2022). Proposal for a Teaching Unit on Philosophy through Cinema. Paideia. Revista de filosofía y didáctica filosófica, 42 (117), 143-170.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2022). Of Gods and Men. The Representation of the Osho Phenomenon in Wild Wild Country (2018). Ética & Cine Journal, 12 (2), 85-94.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2022). I Believe El Greco Is Playing the Victim. Transmedia and Storytelling in the Prado Museum's TikTok. BiD: Textos universitaris de biblioteconomia i documentació, 48, 1-14.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2022). Autofiction and Post-Humor in Malasaña: The Irrationality of the Market as a Comic Resource in The End of Comedy by Ignatius Farray. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 23 (2), 197-215.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2022). Representing Trauma. Post-Memory and Ethics of Representation in Maus by Art Spiegelman. Anclajes, 26 (2), 67-83.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2022). Building from Trauma. Representation and Testimony in The Missing Picture (2013) by Rithy Panh. Doxa Comunicación. Revista interdisciplinar de estudios de comunicación y ciencias sociales, 34, 121-138.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2021). Chronotope, Time, and Repetition in True (2006) by Tom Tykwer. Imagofagia. Revista de la Asociación Argentina de Estudios de Cine y Audiovisual, 24, 295-324.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2021). Narrating through the Perpetrator's Trauma. Memory and Representation in The Act of Killing by Joshua Oppenheimer. Fonseca Journal of Communication, 23, 253-273.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2021). Mexicans Losts in Mexico. Reincarnation of the Poetic Spirit of The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño in Güeros (2014). Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura, 36 (2), 59-74.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2021). Nostalgia of the Popular Unity. Evolution of the Cinematic Form in the Work of Patricio Guzmán. Kamchatka. Revista de Análisis Cultural, 17, 271-297.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2021). The Distribution of Short Films in the Digital Age. Entry Fees and Distribution Platforms. Dígitos. Revista de Comunicación Digital, 7, 167-184.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2021). Post-Memory and Animated Trauma of the Lost Image. Narrative and Aesthetic Approaches of Funan by Denis Do. Con A de Animación, 12, 74-93.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2020). Scattered Small Screens: A Study on Audiovisual Consumption Among Young People in Castilla y León. ZER: Revista de Estudios de Comunicación, 25 (49), 89-110.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2020). Before Sex: The Construction of Pornographic Fantasy in the Gonzo Genre. Femeris. Revista Multidisciplinar de Estudios de Género, 5 (3), 114-134.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2020). Some Make it Wilder: Impact and Overcoming of the Hays Code in Some Like It Hot (1959), by Billy Wilder. Área Abierta. Revista de comunicación audiovisual y publicitaria, 20 (1), 39-57.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2019). Cambodia Year Zero: The Reconstruction of the Anti-Utopia of the Khmer Rouge in The Missing Picture (2013) by Rithy Panh. Cauce. Revista Internacional de Filología, Comunicación y sus Didácticas, 41, 53-75.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2019). The Cinema of Mar Coll: Catalan Legacies of Eric Rohmer. Fotocinema. Revista Científica de Cine y Fotografía, 19, 327-350.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2019). Of Katanas and Guitars: The Use of Flamenco by Quentin Tarantino in Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003) and Kill Bill Volume 2 (2004). Revista Centro Investigación del Flamenco Telethusa, 12 (14), 17-22.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2019). It's Not You, It's Me: The Impact of New Argentine Cinema in Spain During the Period 2002-2018. Archivos de la Filmoteca, 76, 125-143.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2018). Memory and Trauma of Others in the Cinema of Rithy Panh: The Trilogy on S-21. Revista Científica de Información y Comunicación IC, 15, 161-189.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2018). Poetics of Violence in Search of a Narrative: The Refugee Drama in Exil (2016) by Rithy Panh. Archivos de la Filmoteca, 75, 211-224.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2018). Beauty and Unreality in New Feminist Pornography: The Pornographic Image of Erika Lust. Fotocinema. Revista Científica de Cine y Fotografía, 17, 343-365.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2018). Between Two Lands: A Comparative Analysis of the Valencian Novel of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez The Shack and Its Mexican Film Adaptation of the Same Title Directed by Roberto Gavaldón in 1945. Archivos de la Filmoteca, 74, 83-102.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2016). The Art of Provocation: In the Basement by Ulrich Seidl. Revista Atticus, 32, 173-178.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2015). The Evolutionary Death of Cinema: The Democratization of the Medium as an Unlimited and Infinite Horizon and Its Own Condemnation. Revista Atticus, (10), 59-61.

Book Chapters

  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2023). Osho in Front of the Camera: Approaches to Documentary Cinema Beyond Official Representation. In La diversidad de experiencias en las religiones: textos, ritos y pensamientos (pp. 471-493). Teseo Press. ISBN 9788409407392.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2023). Melancholy and Creation in The Blondes by Albertina Carri. In Melancolía y Depresión en la Literatura hispánica (pp. 225-234). Peter Lang.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2022). The Beauty & the Beast in The Shape of Water (2017): Magical Realism. En Magic: A Companion (pp. 89-98). Peter Lang. ISBN 9781800793255.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2017). From Indiana Jones to Nathan Drake: Transformations and Adaptations of the Adventurous Hero Myth in Film and Video Games. In Nuevas narrativas. Entre la ficción y la información: de la desregulación a la integración transmedia (pp. 509-518). UAB. ISBN 978-84-947521-8-6.

Reviews

  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2024). The cinema of Rithy Panh: everything has a soul. Leslie Barnes and Joseph Mai. London: Rutgers University Press, 2021. Studies in Documentary Film, 18 (3), 1-3.
  • Martín Sanz, Á. (2022). From Snow White to Kurosawa: The Adventure of Watching Cinema with Children.. Javier Ocaña. Barcelona: Península, 2021. Kamchatka Revista de Análisis Cultural, 19, 417-421.

Press and Outreach

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Fiction

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Shout "Viva!" in Las Vegas

Published in 2021, Shout "Viva!" in Las Vegas is the title of my first novel. A story that, although presented as a crime novel, blends suspense with sharp and ironic humor. Through its pages, I aim to explore various philosophical conceptions of what it means to (sur)vive in the capitalist system.

Synopsis:

A big heist at a Las Vegas casino, a kidnapping full of mysteries, a croupier who performs magic, a sports bag full of money, and a perfect plan that went wrong. Would you still live a poor life with two million dollars?

May 1999, the suffocating and prefab city of Las Vegas. The bohemian, electric, and ultracapitalist Paris of the 21st century. Jake endures an existential crisis working as a hotel bellboy in a world where not everyone can be a rock star. Thus, along with his energetic friend Sony, every night he escapes the daily grind, enjoying his own particular Disneyland of gambling, drugs, quickie weddings, and sex in luxury suites. Evasion as a constant way of life, until everything changes the day an unexpected stroke of luck makes him a millionaire. It is then that happiness becomes an achievable goal, desires stop being vague illusions, and real problems soon emerge.

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Poetry

Memories of a Boy in Pajamas

Memories of a Boy in Pajamas is the title of my first poetry collection, which was awarded the Accésit in the poetry category of the Young Art Contest by the Youth Institute of the Castilla y León Regional Government. In addition to the prize, this distinction led to the publication of the work, making it possible for you to read it now.

Synopsis:

Memories of a Boy in Pajamas seeks to explore, from a philosophical perspective, the formation of childhood memories and how they shape the personality of the often ignorant adult. It consists of 36 poems that serve as a testimony of a lost and evolving memory. The poems, therefore, trace a journey through a series of fragmented images that present all kinds of realities: confused, distorted, idealized, and invented. The poetry collection tracks the origins of innocence and love while raising questions about the onset of anguish and anxiety during puberty. Thus, from this archaeology of memory, questions about the present emerge, related to the failure of romantic relationships based on the burden individuals carry, which they hide until it becomes impossible to continue the facade.

The author dissects himself, from a failed relationship to a lost past where perspectives were open and determination was sweetly invisible. After all, the adult remains a vulnerable child in pajamas.

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