Juan Carlos Méndez Álvarez

Area of proposed thesis

My thesis focuses on Latin American film music from the perspective of hauntology. I explore the cinematographic representation of Latin America and the ways in which the colonial and dictatorial pasts “leak” into the filmic reality through musical practices, modalities of listening, and contrasting diegetic layers. 

Research interests

Film music, hauntology, nostalgia, materialities of music, internet-mediated music.

Funding

Clarendon Fund Scholarship

The Cockshoot Clarendon Scholarship at St Hugh’s

Degrees

Bachelor of Music (BM), Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica

Master of Music in Performance (MM), McNally Smith College of Music, United States

Research Master’s in Musicology (MA), Utrecht University, The Netherlands