Hasan Gürkan is a Maria Zambrano Fellow in the Department of Philology and Communication at the University of Girona in Spain and Assoc. Prof. Dr. in the department of Radio, Television and Cinema at Istinye University.He holds a Ph.D. from the Istanbul University Department of Radio, Television, and Cinema. He did his post-doc research in the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences Institute at Vienna University on migration and Austrian-Turkish immigrant directors’ films. He has written Counter Cinema and Journalism Practices books. 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, KOME: An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry, Medijske studije, Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies, CINEJ Cinema Journal, Information & Media, Communication Today, Profesional de la Informacion. His focus is on counter cinema, Hollywood Cinema, alternative media, cinema and representations, cinema-migration-transnational films, and gender studies.