Mariapia Comand

Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member.

G. Marx

Mariapia Comand

Cinema, fotografia, radio, televisione e media digitali (PEMM-01/B)

Professoressa ordinaria
Tel: 0432 556600
Email: mariapia.comand@uniud.it
Studio: Casa Solari, second floor, room L2-06
Insegnamenti: Screen Writing; Italian Cinema; History of Film and Tourism; Film History

Mariapia Comand

Cinema, fotografia, radio, televisione e media digitali (PEMM-01/B)

Professoressa ordinaria
Tel: 0432 556600
Email: mariapia.comand@uniud.it
Studio: Casa Solari, second floor, room L2-06
Insegnamenti: Screen Writing; Italian Cinema; History of Film and Tourism; Film History

Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member.

G. Marx

I graduated from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (1991), at the same university I obtained a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and Communication Languages. After graduating, I worked in different activities in the cultural industry at Rai and Finivest.

I became a researcher at the University of Udine in 2002, associate professor in 2005, full professor in 2018.

I am part of the Doctoral College in Art History, Film Studies, Media Studies, and Music of the Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage and of the FilmForum Scientific Committee.
I run the DSL/Digital Storytelling Lab and in charge of the Cinemantica laboratory.

I directed the journal "Bianco e Nero" of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Rome (2016–2017); currently on the Board of “L'avventura. International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes "(Il Mulino).

I teach Screenplay, a discipline to which I have dedicated a constant interest over the years, curating a History of the Italian screenplay (Sulla carta. Storia e storie della sceneggiatura in Italia, Lindau, Turin, 2006) designing, creating and directing a master of Screenplay; a Screenplay Archive (CRS); collaborating in the realization of the International Award for Best Screenplay Sergio Amidei.

From 2018 I coordinate the DIUM Cinema, Music and Media Culture research section.

My research interests focus on Italian cinema, screenwriting and media education.

I am responsible for the following research programs:

PRIN 2017 (Principal Investigator) "WAYS, MEMORIES AND CULTURES OF ITALIAN CINEMATOGRAPHIC PRODUCTION (1949-1976)", conclusion of the project 2023;
PRID 2018 Departmental research project (direction) "EPHEMERA AND ITALIAN CINEMA. SCRAPBOOKS, FAN MAIL AND DIARI OF THE SPECTATORS IN ITALY OF THE SCHEME ", conclusion of the project 2019;
National Cinema for Schools plan, Media education project, funded by MIUR and MIBAC, 2019 project conclusion.