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Sara Pesce
Sara Pesce is associate professor of the University of Bologna where she teaches film history, cinema and literature, and performance studies. She was a Fulbright scholar at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, and at Columbia University, Department of English. She has undertaken research and published on acting, stardom, celebrity culture and fashion – especially in regards to the Hollywood film industry. She has also written on cultural memory and digital culture in the contemporary global context. She is co-founder, with Antonella Mascio and Roy Menarini, of the Italian Research Network on Celebrity Culture and curator of a series of public interviews to major Italian actors. She is the author of books on: Hollywood Jewish founders (Dietro lo schermo: Gli immigranti Ebrei che hanno inventato Hollywood [Carocci 2005]), the Second World War and Italian cinema (Memoria e immaginario: La seconda guerra mondiale nel cinema italiano [Recco, Le Mani 2008]) and Laurence Olivier (Laurence Olivier nei film [Recco, Le Mani 2012]). She is also the editor and author of two books: on film melodrama (Imitazioni della vita: Il melodramma cinematografico [Recco, Le Mani 2007]) and on time, memory and paratextual media (The Politics of Ephemeral Digital Media: Permanence and Obsolescence in Paratexts [London, New York, Routledge 2015]).
Contact: Dipartimento delle Arti, Alma Mater, Università di Bologna, Via Barberia 4, 40123, Bologna, Italy.
