Maza-Pérez, Maximiliano

Maximiliano Maza has a Ph.D. in Humanistic Studies, in the research field of Communication and Cultural Studies. His research lines explore the intersectionality between space, memory, gender, and identity in Mexican cinema and Mexican-American border cinema. Since 2016 he has been a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), level 1. His doctoral thesis, Miradas que se cruzab: el espacio geográfico de la frontera entre México y los Estados Unidos en el cine fronterizo contemporáneo, was published in 2014 by Bonilla Artigas Editores (Mexico City) and Iberoamericana Vervuert (Madrid). In 2013, in co-authorship with Diana González, he published Nuevo León en el cine (México: CONARTE, CONACULTA), a historical study on film production carried out in the state of Nuevo León, Mexico. Likewise, together with Cristina Cervantes, he is co-author of Guion para medios audiovisuales: cine, radio y televisión (Mexico: Pearson, 1994), a scriptwriting manual widely used in Mexico and Latin America. Among his dissemination works stands out the website Más de cien años de cine mexicano (1997-2017), considered the most extensive and complete source of information on Mexican cinema on the internet. Among his academic publications, three recently published chapters stand out: Invocando el artículo 73: paranoias, contradicciones y censura en el cine mexicano de los años de la Guerra Fría. In Á. A. Fernández & Á. Román Gutiérrez (coords.), A la sombra de los caudillos: presidencialismo en el cine mexicano, México: Cineteca Nacional and Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, 2020; Igualdad, solidaridad y justicia: análisis interseccional de La costilla de Adán. In A. Ortega Mantecón & S. Anchondo Pavón (coords.), Otra mirada. Mujeres en el séptimo arte, México: Río Subterráneo, 2020; and Stages for an Assassination: Roles of Cinematic Landscape in Jorge Fons' El atentado (2010) and Carlos Bolado's Colosio: el asesinato (2012). In M. Haddu & N. Thornton (eds.), Legacies of the Past: Memory and Trauma in Mexican Visual and Screen Culture, Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Maza Pérez is a member of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), the Mexican Association of Communication Researchers (AMIC), the PROMOCINE Technical Committee of the Nuevo León Council for Culture and the Arts and the Art-Kiné International Group of cinematographic investigation of the University of Buenos Aires, the University of Vienna and the University of Granada. Since 1988, he has been a professor and researcher at the School of Humanities and Education of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, where he holds the classification of Associate Professor. He was director of the Bachelor's Degree in Communication Sciences (1994-1998) and the Department of Communication and Journalism (2005-2009) and currently directs the Master's and Doctorate in Humanistic Studies at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey.