Congratulations to Professor Matthew Marr, who is this year’s winner of the James Whiston Prize for his article “(Im)mobility at the Movies: el paro, Property and Prosthesis in Álex de la Iglesia’s ‘La chispa de la vida’ (2011)”

His article was published in the April 2019 issue of the Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies. The prize is awarded by the Editors for the most outstanding article in any subject area published in the Bulletin of Spanish Studies or the sibling journal the Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies.
The panel judged his article to be the most innovative and intellectually rigorous of those nominated, with the potential to become an essential point of reference in the field.