Cinema and media studies

Research topics of faculty members and researchers working in the Cinema section: a) cinema philology and cinema restoration theory; b) history of silent cinema; c) history of Italian, North American and contemporary cinema; d) cinema and cultural studies; e) aesthetics and cinema theory; f) economics and marketing of audiovisual products; g) history and theory of serial products; h) pedagogy of cinema; i) history of film criticism; j) history of television and media; k) cultures of production and media distribution.

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Luca Antoniazzi

Research fellow

Giorgio Avezzù

Research fellow

Luca Barra

Associate Professor

keywords: Television studies, Television history, Media production studies, Media history, Media convergence, TV series, Comedy,

Claudio Bisoni

Associate Professor

keywords: reception theory, taste, gender, film criticism, italian cinema, italian narratives

Paola Brembilla

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: Television Studies; Media Industries Studies; TV Series; Media Economics; Digital Media; Serial Narratives

Michele Canosa

Associate Professor

Sara Casoli

Research fellow

keywords: narratology, neo-fornalism, character, serialization, serial figures, historical approaches to seriality

Marco Cucco

Associate Professor

keywords: Film industry, Film policy, Film-induced tourism, Political economy of the media

Monica Dall'Asta

Full Professor

keywords: European crime narratives, history and theory, Feminist Film History, Transmedia Studies, Film Seriality, Film Theory,

Michele Fadda

Associate Professor

keywords: media literacy, hollywood, world cinema, cultural studies

Elisa Farinacci

Adjunct professor

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

keywords: Christian Presence in Israel and Palestine, Arab Palestinian Christians, Israeli Palestinian Conflict, Anthropology of

Angélica Gasparotto De Oliveira

PhD Student

keywords: Digital restoration; Film archives; Film preservation; Film restoration

Michael Guarneri

Research fellow

keywords: film criticism, horror cinema, film genres, Italian cinema, film history, popular cinema, cinema and history, film

Veronica Innocenti

Associate Professor

keywords: TV Series, Marketing, Cinema, Broadcasting, social media, New Media, narrative ecosystems, Television, audience

Giacomo Manzoli

Full Professor

keywords: Italian Film history, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture

Matteo Marinello

PhD Student

keywords: Television, Comedy Studies, Political satire, Media culture, Political cultures, History of the Italian Republic,

Edoardo Milan

PhD Student

keywords: Art theory, Film studies, Museums, Media studies, Visual studies, Intermediality, Jean-Luc Godard, Modernist cinema,

Paolo Noto

Associate Professor

keywords: history of Italian cinema, history of Italian radio, film technology, Italian western, film history, neorealism, film

Guglielmo Pescatore

Full Professor

keywords: Media Studies, Narrative ecosystems, Television Seriality, Auteur's theory, New media, Cinema, Semiotics

Sara Pesce

Associate Professor

Marta Rocchi

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: Narrative ecosystem, Modelling, Network analysis, Textual data analysis, TV series, Audience, Digital media

Emiliano Rossi

PhD Student

Giulio Tosi

PhD Student

keywords: History of film criticism, Periodical studies, Postwar japanese culture, Postwar film history, International

Gian Luca Tusini

Associate Professor

keywords: perspective, art and technology, design, heraldry, shape, applied arts, ornament, decoration, photography, visual

Cinema and media studies

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