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• BA (Film and Art)
• PhD (Film and Literature)

Independence and empathy are central to Professor Stone’s understanding of the dynamics of global, national and regional film movements and their evolution. He has published in English, Spanish and Italian.

Professor Stone's publications on Spanish literature, film, surrealism and flamenco include (Longman, 2002), Flamenco in the Works of Federico García Lorca and Carlos Saura (2004), (Columbia University Press, 2007), (Manchester University Press, 2007), (Manchester University Press, 2012), (Blackwell, 2013), (Bloomsbury, 2015] and (Comunicación Social, 2015).Ìý

On American independent cinema, his publications include (Columbia University Press, 2013; second edition 2018), (Routledge, 2022) and the forthcoming Imagined Life: American Independent Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2027).

Recent writing that theorises new frameworks for understanding the dynamics of World Cinema include (with Paul Cooke, Stephanie Dennison and Alex Marlow-Mann, 2018; second edition 2027), ‘World Cinema in Flux: Cinemas of Citizens, Cinemas of Sentiment’ (2018) and, with Luis Freijo, (2021).

His co-edited works with Professor Deborah Shaw on genre and gender in television include (Bloomsbury, 2021) and (Bloomsbury, 2024) and several related articles.

Professor Stone is also a filmmaker and video essayist. His films include the documentary (2018). His works of videographic criticism have been published in [In]Transition, Tecmerin and the Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies and they have been recognised by Sight & Sound as amongst the best of 2021 and 2022 with having also gone viral.

Professor Stone has also contributed to special editions for Metro-Tartan (the films of Julio Medem), Criterion () and Arrow (). He has also written for Sight & Sound, Cinemascope, Time Out and many other magazines and journals.

Professor Stone has delivered numerous keynotes and invited lectures and has published many chapters in edited works and articles in refereed journals. He has also supervised more than 20 research theses to completion. He is a member of the UKRI Strategic Review and the editorial boards of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies and the Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies. He has been awarded research grants by the AHRC, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust and the Mellon Foundation. He has been Associate Research Professor at the University of Deusto in Spain and in 2015 he was awarded the Chair of Basque Studies at the University of Chicago and in 2024 he was invited to take up a Visiting Professorship at Brandeis University in the US.

He founded and co-directed B-Film: The Birmingham Centre for Film and Television Studies at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ from 2014 to 2024.

I lecture on World Cinema, American and European Cinema, Film Authorship, and European and American Philosophy in relation to the politics and aesthetics of World Cinema.

I welcome enquiries about research supervision at MA and PhD level in relevant areas of World Cinema, American independent cinema, European cinema and genre and gender.

Find out more - our PhD/MA Film Studies page has information about doctoral research at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡.

Find out more - our PhD Film Studies  page has information about doctoral research at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡.

Professor Rob Stone researches on the dynamics of World Cinema, American independent cinema, Hispanic cinemas, Genre and Gender. In addition to the publications listed below, he producesÌýworks of videographic criticism.