FBA<\/strong> is Professor of Film at the University of Reading and Honorary Professor of Film at the University of Nottingham, Ningbo.<\/p>\nShe is an internationally recognised specialist in world cinema, cinematic realism and cinematic intermediality,\u00a0which she has explored through a novel approach in many publications, including her single-authored books,\u00a0Realist Cinema as World Cinema: Non-cinema, Intermedial Passages, Total Cinema\u00a0<\/em>(Amsterdam University Press, 2020) and\u00a0World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism\u00a0<\/em>(Bloomsbury, 2011).\u00a0Her edited books include The Moving Form of Film: Historicising the Medium Through Other Media <\/em>(with Stefan Solomon, Oxford University Press, 2023), Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema <\/em>(with Luciana Ara\u00fajo and Tiago de Luca, Edinburgh University Press, 2022), Impure Cinema: Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film <\/em>(with Anne Jerslev, I.B. Tauris, 2013), Theorizing World Cinema <\/em>(with Chris Perriam and Rajinder Dudrah, I.B. Tauris, 2012) and Realism and the Audiovisual Media <\/em>(with Cec\u00edlia Mello, Palgrave, 2009). Before Films to Die For, <\/em>she directed, with Samuel Paiva, the award-winning feature-length documentary film, Passages <\/em>(UK, 2019).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”343″ img_size=”medium” onclick=”link_image”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n