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Santiago Hidalgo is the director of the CinéMédias Laboratory and co-director of the Cinema Technology series at Amsterdam University Press. He co-edited the Blackwell Companion to Early Cinema (Wiley, 2011) and directed the book Technology Film Scholarship: Experience, Study, Theory (Amsterdam University Press, 2018). His current research focuses on cinematic experience and the notion of 'film consciousness'. His doctoral thesis, supervised by André Gaudreault at the Université de Montréal and submitted in 2016, is titled 'Possibilities of Film Consciousness: Formulation of Search Theory'. He is also interested in children’s film reception, a topic he explored during a panel at the Canadian Association of Cinema Studies (Toronto, 2017) titled 'Primary Schools University: Study of Film Reception in Educational Environments'. At the CinéMédias Laboratory, he continues his research on reception and film consciousness through the PREC (Program for Research on Cinematic Experience) and currently serves on the scientific committee of TECHNÈS.
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