Alfio Leotta

Dr. Alfio Leotta is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. His primary research interests focus on the relation between film and tourism, national cinema, and the globalization of film production. His first book Touring the Screen: Tourism and New Zealand Film Geographies (Intellect, 2011) examines the phenomenon of film-induced tourism in New Zealand. Dr. Leotta is also the author of The Bloomsbury Companion to Peter Jackson (Bloomsbury, 2016).