Professor Rob Stone studied at the University of Kent, worked for several years in Spain and completed his doctoral studies at the University of Wales. 

His monograph Walk, Don’t Run: The Cinema of Richard Linklater was completed with the support of the AHRC and will be published by Columbia University Press in 2012.  His recently published critical biography of the Basque-Spanish film-maker Julio Medem (Manchester University Press, 2007) was completed with the support of the British Academy and the AHRC. He is currently researching and writing monographs on Basque cinema and on Modernism in relation to film.  Other publications are detailed below. 

Professor Stone is a member of the AHRC review panel, the review panel of the Qatar National Research Fund, external examiner on the BA in World Cinema at the University of Leeds and the BA in Modern Languages (Hispanic Studies) at Durham University.  He is also Moderator of undergraduate degree schemes at ESCO University, Granada, Spain and CEADE University, Seville, Spain.  In November 2011 he will deliver plenary papers in Spanish on the subject of Hispanic cinema at the University of Deusto in San Sebastian and the University of Zaragoza, Spain.

He is editorial board member of Studies in European Cinema (Intellect) and advisory board member of Studies in Hispanic Cinemas (Intellect). He is a member of the European Cinema Research Forum and was co-director with Professor Paul Cooke (Leeds) of the British Academy Networks project on Screening Identities: The Reconfiguration of Identity Politics in Contemporary European Cinema.

Professor Stone was curator by invitation of a ground-breaking season of Basque cinema for the National Film Theatre in London and has published widely in academic and popular publications including Sight & Sound, Time Out, Cinemascope and Academia on the subject of Spanish, Basque, Cuban, European and independent American cinema.

His recent activities have included providing film notes on the Metro-Tartan DVD releases of the films of Julio Medem and full-length audio commentary in collaboration with the journalist and writer Paddy Woodworth on the Metro-Tartan DVD release of Julio Medem’s documentary on the Basque conflict,Basque Ball. This commentary was described by Channel 4 as “wide-ranging and very worthwhile… informed, critical but highly engaging.  Stone has plenty of insider knowledge on Medem's working practices and is able to provide ample background on his thinking, as with many of those who appear. Woodworth explains the bigger picture, discussing issues, including the sensitive matter of security, which is only alluded to in the film. The result is every bit as valuable a contribution to our understanding of the Basques as Medem's own controversial feature.”

Professor Stone has spoken by invitation on a wide variety of themes related to European cinema at the National Film Theatre, Cardiff's Chapter Arts Centre, Manchester Cornerhouse, the House of Commons, Westminster and numerous universities in the UK, Spain and the USA.

He currently supervises postgraduate research in the areas of Hispanic cinema, Eastern European auteur filmmakers, melodrama in American independent cinema and European art-house cinema, trauma in post 9/11 cinema, and tragedy in contemporary European cinema. He welcomes enquiries from potential Mphil and PhD students in the fields of Basque and Hispanic studies, and in American, European, Hispanic and World cinema and new media.

RECENT and FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

A.    Monographs

• Stone, R. (2012) Walk, Don’t Run: The Cinema of Richard Linklater, Columbia University Press, c.300pp.
• Stone, R. (2007) Julio Medem, Manchester University Press, 236pp. 
• Stone, R. (2004) Flamenco in the Works of Federico García Lorca and Carlos Saura: The Wounded Throat, New York and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 312pp.
• Stone, R. (2002) Spanish Cinema, Longman, 224pp.

B.    Edited Books

• Stone, R. & J. D. Gutiérrez-Albilla (2012) The Companion to Luis Buñuel, Blackwell (+ introduction 40pp). 
• Stone, R. & L. Shaw (2011) Screening Songs in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema, Manchester University Press (+ introduction 20pp). 
• Stone, R. & G. Harper (2007) The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism on Film, Columbia University Press, 180pp.

C.    Articles in Journals

• Stone, R. (2011) ‘Time of Death: Deleuze and the Short Film’ in Short Film Studies, Intellect, 1.2. 
• Stone, R. (2010) ‘The Coding of Aesthetic & Thematic Discourse in a Cinematic Mnemonic: The Case of “Ama Lur” (1968)’, Journal of European Studies, Sage, 40.3, 230-42.
• Stone, R. (2010) ‘Ambition’s Debt: An Interview with Richard Linklater’, Sight & Sound 20.1, 34-6.
• Stone, R. (2007) ‘Notes From Region 2: The State of European Cinema’, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Taylor and Francis, 15.1, 5-14. 
• Stone, R. (2004) ‘Animals Were Harmed During the Making of this Film: A Cruel Reality in Hispanic Cinema’, Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, Intellect, 1.2., 75-84
• Stone, R. and H. Jones (2004) ‘Mapping the Gendered Space of the Basque Country’, Studies in European Cinema, Intellect, 1.1, 43-55.
• Stone, R. (2004) ‘Julio Medem's Basque Balls: "La Pelota Vasca"’, Vertigo, 2.6, Spring 2004, 46-48.
• Stone, R. (2003) ‘Breaking the Spell: Carlos Saura's “El amor brujo” and el desencanto’, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, LXXX, 5, 573-92.
• Stone, R. (2002) ‘No Sólo Hable, Sino Escuche: Pedro Almodóvar’s “Hable con ella”’, Academia: Revista de la Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España, 32, 46-54.
• Stone, R. (2001) 'Through a Glass Darkly: Ritual and Transition in Carlos Saura's “Bodas de sangre”',Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool), LXXVIII, 199-215.
• Stone, R. (2000) 'Quiero llorar: Lorca and the Flamenco Tradition in “Poeta en Nueva York”', Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, (Glasgow), LXXVII, 83-100.
• Stone, R. (2000) 'El camino de los ayes: The Concept of Pilgrimage in “Romancero gitano”',Neophilologus, LXXXIV, pp. 225-40.
• Stone, R. (1999) 'Misticismo y lujuria: The Sacred and the Profane in “Poema del cante jondo”',  Anales de la literatura española contemporánea, XXIV, 213-26.
• Stone, R. (1998) 'Designing Women: “Vertigo”, “Carmen” and “La ardilla roja”', Tesserae, IV, 173-82.

D.    Chapters in Edited Books

• Stone, R. (2012) ‘”Now they’re naming streets after my father; a few years ago they would have had him shot’, in (eds) Stone, R. & J. D. Gutiérrez-Albilla, The Companion to Luis Buñuel, Blackwell.
• Stone, R. and M. P. Rodríguez (2012) ‘Sex and Violence: Cinematic Representations of Gender and ETA’ in (eds) Peretti, L and V. Roghi,  Immagini di piombo: Cinema, storia e terrorismi in Europa, Milan: Bevivino.  In press. [In Italian]
• Stone, R. (2011) ‘Bits and Bytes: Film Studies through New Technologies’ in (ed.) María Jesús Pando Canteli, Communication, Information and Media Studies: Perspectives and Challenges in the European Higher Education Area, University of Deusto. In press.
• Stone, R. (2011) ‘Song-Shaped Cinema’ in (eds) Stone, R. & L. Shaw, Screening Songs in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema, Manchester University Press.  
• Stone, R. (2011) ‘En la ciudad de Sylvia and the durée of a derivé’ in (eds) Delgado, M. & R. Fiddian, Spanish Cinema 1973-2010: Politics, Landscape and Memory, Manchester University Press.  
• Stone, R. (2011) ‘Compás and the Reterritorialisation of Time’, in (ed.) Lefevre, R., Carlos Saura de Cuenca a Fado (1958-2008): aspectos singulares de una trayectoria ejemplar, Brussels: Visor Press. [In Spanish]
• Stone, R. (2010) ‘Al mal tiempo, buena cara: Spanish Slackers, Time-Images, New Media and the New Spanish Cinema Law’ in (ed.) Davies, A., Spain on Screen: Developments in Contemporary Spanish Cinema, Palgrave Macmillan. 
• Stone, R. (2009) ‘Remaining Bodies; The Time-Image as Terrorist Act’ in (ed.) Rodríguez, M. P.,  Cultural and Media Studies: Basque / European Perspectives, University of Nevada, 81-99.
• Stone, R. (2007) ‘Between Sunrise and Sunset: An Elliptical Dialogue Between European and American Cinema’, in (ed.) Cooke, P., Dialogues with Hollywood: World Cinema’s Relationship with American Film Culture, Palgrave, 218-37. 
• Stone, R. (2007) ‘Killing Time In Cuba: Juan Carlos Tabío’s “Lista de espera” (2000)’, in (ed.) Shaw, D.,Contemporary Latin American Cinema, Rowan and Littlefield, 135-52.
• Stone, R. (2007) 'Spanish Film Noir', in (ed.) Spicer, A., European Film Noir Manchester University Press, 185-209.
• Stone, R. (2007) ‘Eye To Eye: The Persistence of Surrealism in Spanish Cinema’, in (eds) Harper, G. & R. Stone, The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism on Film, Columbia University Press, 23-37. 
• Stone, R. (2006) ‘Mother Lands, Sister Nations: The Epic, Poetic, Propaganda Films of Cuba and the Basque Country’, in (eds) Dennison, S. & Song Hwee Lim), Remapping World Cinema: Identity, Culture and Politics in Film, London and New York: Wallflower Press, 65-72.
• Stone, R. (2004) ‘¡Victoria?: A Modern Magdalene’, in (eds) Marsh, S. & P. Nair, Gender in Spanish Cinema, Berg Publishers, 165-82.

E.     Edited Journals

• Stone, R. & Preece, J. (2010) Journal of European Studies, 40.3.
• Stone, R. & Cooke, P. (2007) Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 15:1. 
• Stone, R. & Cooke, P. (2004) Studies in European Cinema, 1:2. 
• Stone, R. & Cooke, P. (2006) New Cinemas, 4: 2.