Alfio Leotta

2025-09-23 10:07:01

(MENAFN- The Conversation)

Associate Professor, School of Arts and Media, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington

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Alfio's primary research interests focus on the relation between screen media and tourism; creative industries and the political economy of media; creative practice research; film authorship and genre. His first book 'Touring the Screen: Tourism and New Zealand Film Geographies' (Intellect, 2011) examines the representation of landscape in a number of film productions shot in New Zealand which have subsequently been used as marketing tools to attract tourists to the country. He is also the author of 'The Bloomsbury Companion to Peter Jackson' (Bloomsbury, 2016) and 'The Cinema of John Milius' (Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington, 2018). Recently, he also co-edited 'Audiovisual Tourism Promotion' (Palgrave 2022) with Diego Bonelli.

Alfio is an award-winning film-maker who produced and directed a number of short films that have screened at festivals both in Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas. Alfio is also the founder and director of the Aotearoa Poetry Film Festival ().

Experience

2013–present Associate professor, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington

Education

2010 University of Auckland, PhD in Film, Media and TV

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