Jordi Costa

Journalist and writer

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(Barcelona, 1966) Jordi Costa has been writing about film, comics and other fields of popular culture since 1981. He is the author of the books Hay algo ahí afuera (1997), Mondo Bulldog (1999), Vida Mostrenca (2002), Carles Mira: Plateas en llamas (2001), Todd Solondz: En los suburbios de la felicidad(2005), El sexo que habla (2006), Monstruos modernos (2008), 100 películas clave del cine de animación (2010) and Cómo acabar con la Contracultura(2018), as well as collective and collaborative works, including Profondo Argento (1999), Franquismo Pop (2001), Tierra de nadie (2005), El Quijote. Instrucciones de uso (2005), Mutantes (2008), Una risa nueva (2010), Manga Impact (2010), CT o la Cultura de la Transición (2012) and Black Pulp Box(2012). Jointly with Darío Adanti, he published the comics Mis problemas con Amenábar (2009) and 2.000 años de cine (2010).

He was head of contents of the theme channel Cinemanía and editor of Fantastic Magazine.

He curated the exhibitions “Trash Culture. The Potholes of Taste”, “J. G. Ballard. Autopsy of the New Millennium” (both at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona), “Ficciones en serie” and “Ficciones en serie. Segunda temporada” (SOS 4.8), and “Plagiarismo” (La Casa Encendida), the latter jointly with Álex Mendíbil.

He was associate lecturer in Audiovisual Communication at Pompeu Fabra University and currently teaches on the degree in Film at Camilo José Cela University.He teaches an annual course on film criticism at the Escuela de Escritores de Madrid, where he also edits the magazine Orphanik, devoted to cinematographic analysis.

He writes for El País as a film critic and contributes to “Historia de nuestro cine” on La 2 television.

He directed the films Piccolo Grande Amore and La lava en los labios, according to the guidelines of the #littlesecretfilm manifesto.

Update: 31/10/2018 12:00 am

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