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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Roberto Balestri

PhD Student

Teaching tutor

Luca Barra

Full Professor

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

Claudio Bisoni

Full Professor

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

Guglielmo Bottin

Research fellow

keywords: rhythm in popular music, film music, EDM history, media archeology, hauntology, Italo disco, groove

Paola Brembilla

Associate Professor

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

Federico Cadalanu

PhD Student

Michele Canosa

Associate Professor

Ylenia Caputo

Adjunct professor

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

keywords: Celebrity and Star Studies, Youth Studies, Film and Media Studies, Gender Studies

Darcy Isabel Continanza

PhD Student

Andre Conti Silva

Research fellow

keywords: Design, Creative and cultural industries, content, games, film, arrative, ficction, fictional worlds

Marco Cucco

Associate Professor

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

Elena Dagrada

Full Professor

Monica Dall'Asta

Full Professor

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

Greta Delpanno

PhD Student

keywords: TV Series; Gender Studies; Media Studies; LGBTQIA+ Representations; Italian Studies; Queerness; OTT Platforms.

Michele Fadda

Associate Professor

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

Elisa Farinacci

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: International circulation Italian Media, Media Education, Production Studies, Anthropology of Media

Veronica Innocenti

Full Professor

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

Lisha Liang

PhD Student

keywords: Interactive narrative, Gender studies, Digital media, Art sociology, Posthumanism, Feminist film

Giacomo Manzoli

Full Professor

keywords: Italian Film history, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture

Matteo Marinello

Adjunct professor

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

keywords: Television, Comedy Studies, Culture di produzione, Political cultures, History of the Italian Republic

Roy Menarini

Full Professor

keywords: Celebrity and Star Studies, Film Criticism and Cinephilia, Film and Fashion, Film and Media Studies, Festival Studies

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

keywords: Cinema and North-American culture, Cinema and British culture, Cultural memory, Jewish memory, war film, Acting for the

Luca Prono

PhD Student

keywords: Italian film giallo, film noir, literature and media, Ugo Pirro,

Pier Cesare Rivoltella

Full Professor

keywords: Media Literacy, Teaching Innovation, Education Technology, Artificial Intelligence in Education

Emiliano Rossi

Adjunct professor

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

keywords: Television, Media production studies, Contemporary creative industries, Mobility and visual culture, Audiovisual media

Beatrice Sartori

PhD Student

Allegra Sonego

PhD Student

Teaching tutor

keywords: Quantitative Content Analysis, Medical Drama, Narrative Ecosystems

Francesca Tesi

Research fellow

keywords: Film censorship, History of Italian Cinema, Fascist Cinema, Archival Research

Tristan Venturi

PhD Student

keywords: Critical Theory, Queer Theory, Film Studies, Women's, Sexuality, and LGBT Studies, Transgender Studies, Critical

Cinema and media studies

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