Biography
Dr. Emiel Martens (1980) is a media lecturer, researcher, programmer, and producer. He graduated cum laude in both Media Studies and Human Geography at the University of Amsterdam, was a visiting scholar at the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) at University of the West Indies, Mona, and holds a Ph.D in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam. His dissertation,Ā entitledĀ āWelcome to Paradise Island: The Rise of Jamaicaās Cine-Tourist Image, 1891-1951ā,Ā marked the first study of Jamaicaās early film history and its connections with the island's early tourism history.Ā
Emiel joined theĀ Department of Media StudiesĀ of theĀ University of Amsterdam as a lecturer and researcher in 2004, where he is now working asĀ Assistant Professor in Film and Visual Culture. In 2016, he also joined theĀ Erasmus School of History, Culture and CommunicationĀ (ESHCC) to become a team member of the research project 'Worlds of Imagination' (ERC Consolidator Grant),Ā aĀ comparative study of film tourism in non-western societies.Ā His research interests span the fields of Postcolonial (Media)Ā Studies, Media Geography,Ā Popular Geopolitics, Migration and Diversity Studies, Creative Industries, Film (and) TourismĀ and Alternative Media, with a particular focus on the history, theory and praxis of the (Anglophone) Caribbean film and visual culture.
Besides his posts at the University of Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam,Ā Emiel is also the founding directorĀ of Ā Caribbean Creativity, a non-profit organization committed to the promotion of Caribbean and Caribbean-themed cinema, board member ofĀ NALACS, the Netherlands Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, film review editor atĀ ERLACS, theĀ European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, text editor at theĀ Dutch Film Festival,Ā board member atĀ IDleaks, a non-profit organization aimed at better communication about international development, co-organiser of theĀ Ammehoela Film Festival, and one of the dudes of media and communications agencyĀ Dudes in your FaceĀ (Dutch: Gasten in je Gezicht).Ā Ā
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- martens@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Emiel Martens (2023) - The failing promise of the audio-visual industries for national development: the history of seventy years of film policy in Jamaica, 1948ā2018 - Creative Industries Journal, 1-28 - doi: 10.1080/17510694.2023.2223379 - [link]
- DĆ©bora PĆ³voa, Stijn Reijnders & Emiel Martens (2021) - A Brazilian Hollywood in the making? Film, tourism and creative city discourse in the hinterland of ParaĆba - International Journal of Cultural Studies, 24 (5), 691-706 - doi: 10.1177/13678779211011635 - [link]
- Emiel Martens & W Oomen (2021) - Waarom deze ontwikkelingscampagnes echt niet meer kunnen - Vakblad Fondsenwerving, 7, 18-23 - [link]
- Emiel Martens (2020) - A Daughter of the Gods (1916): Film, Tourism and Empire on Location in Jamaica. - TMG - Journal for Media History, 23 (1-2), 1-40 - doi: 10.18146/tmg.599 - [link]
- W Oomen, Emiel Martens & A Piccoli (2020) - The Neoliberal Workings of āThe Family Mealā Campaign: Unfortunate Others, European Citizens, and the Branding of the EU - European Journal of Cultural Studies, 24 (1), 295-313 - doi: 10.1177/1367549420919851 - [link]
- Emiel Martens (2020) - Stop Filming Us: De film die inderdaad nooit gemaakt had mogen worden - One World Europe: http://nt.oneworld.nl/thinktank/industry/front/thm - [link]
- Emiel Martens & W Oomen (2020) - Episode 14: Poverty Porn 2.0 - [link]
- Debora Ribeiro Povoa, Stijn Reijnders & Emiel Martens (2019) - The Telenovela Effect: Challenges of Location Filming and Telenovela Tourism in the Brazilian Favelas - Journal of Popular Culture, 52 (6), 1536-1556 - doi: 10.1111/jpcu.12861 - [link]
- Emiel Martens (2019) - From The Harder They Come to Yardie: The Ghetto-Reggae Aesthetics of the Jamaican Urban Crime Film - Interventions: international journal of postcolonial studies, 20 (1), 71-92 - doi: 10.1080/1369801X.2019.1659160 - [link]
- Emiel Martens & C Malig Jedlicki (2018) - Review of The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research - Journal of Cultural Heritage, 1-2 - [link]
- Emiel Martens (2019) - European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (Journal)
- Emiel Martens (2018) - Annual Cultural Heritage Summer School on Cultural Landscapes
- Emiel Martens (2018) - DocuDoka
- Emiel Martens (2018) - DocuDoka
- Emiel Martens (2018) - European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (Journal)
- Emiel Martens (2017) - DocuDoka
- Emiel Martens (2017) - DocuDoka
- Emiel Martens (2016) - 1 jaar Stay West: rol van de media. Verbinden of polariseren?
- Emiel Martens (2016) - DocuDoka
- Emiel Martens (2016) - DocuDoka