Esther Hamburger is Professor of Film and Television History and Theory at the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo. She has a PhD in Anthropology, University of Chicago. Working on the confluence of Anthropology and Film and Media Studies she deals with different ways in which the production and circulation of moving images and sounds takes part of contemporary transnational, transmedia, and transcultural life. She has published a book and a number of book chapters and journal papers.