Francesco Pitassio
DIUM
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S. Daney
Francesco Pitassio
Cinema, fotografia, radio, televisione e media digitali (PEMM-01/B)
- Professore ordinario
- Tel: 0432 556622
- Email: francesco.pitassio@uniud.it
- Studio: Casa Solari, second floor, room L2-05
- Insegnamenti: Film History
Francesco Pitassio
Cinema, fotografia, radio, televisione e media digitali (PEMM-01/B)
- Professore ordinario
- Tel: 0432 556622
- Email: francesco.pitassio@uniud.it
- Studio: Casa Solari, second floor, room L2-05
- Insegnamenti: Film History
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S. Daney
I received my MA at the Università di Bologna-Alma Mater Studiorum, with a dissertation in film history, focusing on silent cinema in Czechoslovakia (1918–1930). After that, I received my post-grad education between Università di Bologna Univerzita Karlova in Prague. I got a Ph.D. from the Università di Bologna-Alma Mater Studiorum: my research scrutinized and discussed film acting theories in Europe in the 1920s. During this period I regularly cooperated with the Bologna film archive. In Bologna I also started my career as Researcher, in the Faculty of Humanities, since 2002. From 2004 to 2006 I sat on the steering committe of Consulta Universitaria del Cinema (national association for film studies), as a representative of the researchers.
In 2005 the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the Università degli Studi di Udine, recruited me as Associate Professor. Therein I was part of the Department of Central-Eastern Lanaguages and Cultures, where I acted as deputy head (2009–2010), and then of the Department of Cultural Heritage (2011–2015). From 2006 to 2010 I sat on the steering committe of Consulta Universitaria del Cinema, as a representative of the associate professors. From 2015 to 2019 I was a member of the steering committee of NECS-European Network for Cinema and Media Studies.
In 2015 I was Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer, and spent a semester as a Fellow of the Nanovic Institute at the University of Notre Dame, IN. In 2021 I held the Chaire Roger Odin at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3.
I am a member of the Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage from the onset (2016), and since 2019 Full Professor. Within this vivid research environment, I acted as Coordinator of the Ph.D. program in Art History, Film and Media Studies, Music. Between 2019 and 2022 I was Research Delegate for the Department. Currently I am the Rector's Delegate for the Multifunctional Centre of Gorizia.
My interests revolve around some subjects:
- film acting and stardom;
- European cinema and notably Central-Eastern European cinema;
- the relation between film and cultural history;
- the relation between media and collective memory.
I always strove to locate my endeavor, my research and humanities overall within a European framework. For this reason, I act as Erasmus + coordinator for the MA program IMACS and am responsible for a number of Erasmus agreements. Furthermore, I am the principal investigator of the Italian research unit of HERA Visual Culture of Trauma, Obliteration and Reconstruction in Post-WW2 Europe and of the PRIN Project F-ACTOR – Forms of Contemporary Media Professional Acting. Training, Recruitment and Management, Social Discourses in Italy (2000–2020).
From the onset (2012) for the following ten years I was a member of the board of NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies.
Pubblicazioni
Attore/Divo
Milano 2003
Scrittura e immagine/Writing and Image
Udine 1998 (con L. Quaresima)
Multiple-language Versions III / Versions multiples III
CINEMA & Cie 7 (2005), numero monografico (con L. Quaresima)
Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe. Film Cultures and Histories
Londra 2017 (con D. Ostrowska e Zs. Varga)
Recent Quality Film and the Future of the Republic of Europe
Studies in European Cinema 16 (2018) 1–9
For the Peace, for a New Man, for a Better World! Italian Leftist Culture and Czechoslovak Cinema, 1945-1968
in: A. Imre (cur.), A Companion to Eastern European Cinema, Hoboken-NJ 2012, 265–288
Technophobia and Italian Film Theory in the Interwar Period
A. van den Oever (cur.), Techne/Technology, Amsterdam 2014, 185–195
Neorealist Film Culture. 1945–1954. Rome, Open Cinema
Amsterdam 2019
Documentare il trauma. L’Università Castrense di San Giorgio di Nogaro: saperi e immagini nella Grande guerra
Pisa 2020 (con S. Contarini. D. De Santis)
The Geopolitics of Cinema and the Study of Film
CINEMA & Cie 20 (2013), numero monografico (con T. Bergfelder e V. Hediger)