Dr Jacqueline Ristola
Graduate Diploma, M.A, B.A, PhD
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Biography
Jacqueline Ristola is a Lecturer in the Department of Film and Television at the University of Bristol. She received her PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies from Concordia University, Montréal in 2022. Her research areas include animation/anime studies, media industry studies, and queer representation.
Her work is published in Kinephanos, Synoptique, Con a de animación, and Animation Studies Online Journal, where she was awarded the inaugural Maureen Furniss Student Essay Award. She also co-edited a special issue on LGBTQ Animation for Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, and has chapters in edited collections on the animated television series Steven Universe and Bojack Horseman.
Her work is published in Kinephanos, Synoptique, Con a de animación, and Animation Studies Online Journal, where she was awarded the inaugural Maureen Furniss Student Essay Award. She also co-edited a special issue on LGBTQ Animation for Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, and has chapters in edited collections on the animated television series Steven Universe and Bojack Horseman.
Publications
Selected publications
01/01/2020Globalizing Fandoms: Envisioning Queer Futures from Kunihiko Ikuhara and Rebecca Sugar
Representation in Steven Universe
Espacios de imágenes del anime: Walter Benjamin y las políticas del consumo
Con A de animación
Queer Animation, The Motion of Illusion
Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies
Realist Film Theory and Flowers of Evil
Animation Studies
Anime Streaming Platform Wars
Recent publications
04/01/2024Scribbles and Compression: Tracing Feminist Animation Aesthetics
Aren’t You Bojack Horseman?: Critical Essays on the Netflix Series
Going Gonzo
Kinephanos: Journal of Media Studies and Pop Culture
RACE AND THE ANIMATED BODYSCAPE
Journal of Popular Television