Dario Llinares is an academic and podcaster whose research has focused on a range of cinema- and media-related themes. He has published on the status and practice of cinema-going in the digital age, the aesthetics of postmodern film, representations of masculinity in prison cinema, and podcasting as a media technology. He is the co-founder and co-host of the podcasts The Cinematologists and The Podcast Studies Podcast and co-editor of Podcasting: New Aural Cultures and Digital Media (2018).