Jose Miguel Palacios
José Miguel Palacios, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinematic Arts at CSU Long Beach, is a film and media historian with teaching and research interests in Latin American cinema, film and media theory, cinemas of exile and migration, documentary film, radical film cultures, and archives and film heritage.
His work has appeared in academic journals such as Film Quarterly, The Moving Image, Screen, Jump Cut, In Transition, and Archivos de la Filmoteca, as well as in numerous edited collections published in the United States, Chile, and Argentina. Two of his most recent projects are “Chilean Film & Media Fifty Years Later (1973/2023),” a special focus section co-edited with Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto for the journal Film Quarterly, and Chile 1973/2023, a series of screenings and art exhibitions in various NYC venues to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Chilean military coup.
Prior to joining CSU Long Beach, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Art Department at Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago, Chile, and taught a wide range of film and media courses at New York University, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad de Chile, and Universidad Uniacc.
Ph.D. Department of Cinema Studies, New York University, 2017
M.A. Film Studies Program, Columbia University, 2011
B.A. Film & TV, Universidad Uniacc (Santiago, Chile), 2006
José Miguel Palacios has received grants from Humanities New York (2014-2015, Public Humanities Fellowship), from Chile’s National Research Council CONICYT (2018-2020, Fondecyt Postdoctoral Project nº3180209), and from the College of the Arts at CSULB (Faculty Small Grant 2023-2024).
He is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Cinema Solidarity: A Transnational History of Chilean Exile Film & Video (under contract with the University of California Press). The book offers a transnational history of Chilean exile cinema, from its global emergence due to networks of solidarity in the 1970s to its return to Chilean archives in the last decade. Cinema Solidarity proposes an alternative model for doing world and transnational film history. The “world” that this book brings into view is shaped by solidarity and by the travels of forced political displacement, and the “cinema” it invokes refers to a wide range of actors beyond the figure of the director: production companies, festivals, exile communities, embassies, universities, political organizations, and the life of film prints themselves as material and archival artifacts.
Peer-reviewed journals:
“Beyond Memory: An Introduction,” Film Quarterly vol. 77, n°1 (Fall 2023), 38-47.
Book chapters:
“Experimentos en y con la televisión: sobre Images de débats (1979) y Télétests (1980).” Raúl Ruiz: Potencias de lo múltiple, eds. Ignacio Albornoz Fariña and Iván Pinto (Santiago: Metales Pesados, 2023, 55-62).
“De memoria incompleta: Marilú Mallet de la literatura al cine de ficción.” Nomadías: el cine de Marilú Mallet, Valeria Sarmiento y Angelina Vázquez, eds. Elizabeth Ramírez Soto and Catalina Donoso Pinto. Santiago: Metales Pesados, 2016 (41-63).
Other publications:
“Obstinate Memories: The Documentary Films of Patricio Guzmán.” Booklet Essay for the DVD boxset Five Films by Patricio Guzmán, released by Icarus Films on September 2015.
