Hasan Gürkan is a Maria Zambrano Fellow at the University of Girona in Spain. He holds his Ph.D. from Istanbul University Department of Radio, Television and Cinema. He did his post-doc research at the University of Vienna. He has also written the books Counter Cinema and Journalism Practices. His research articles have been published in the journals such as Feminist Media Studies, Studies in European Cinema, Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, Medijske studije, Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies, CINEJ Cinema Journal. He focuses on counter cinema, Hollywood Cinema, alternative media, cinema and representations, cinema-migration-transnational films, and gender studies.  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3805-9951