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Francesco Di Chiara
Francesco Di Chiara is an associate professor of film studies at the Università eCampus in Novedrate (Italy). His research has been devoted mostly to the post-war Italian film genre system and to the Italian and European film industries and has been conducted with an approach that combines perspectives deriving from media production studies, cultural history, film analysis and archival research. He is the author of Sessualità e marketing cinematografico italiano: Industria, culture visuali, spazio urbano (1948–1978) (Rubbettino, 2021), Peplum: Il cinema italiano alle prese col mondo antico (Donzelli-CSC, 2016) and Generi e industria cinematografica in Italia: Il caso Titanus (1949–1963) (Lindau, 2013). He is on the editorial board of Cinéma & Cie: International Film Studies Journal and part of the editorial team of L’avventura: International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes.
Contact: Facoltà di Lettere, Università degli Studi eCampus, Via Isimbardi, 10, 22060 Novedrate (CO), Italy.