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Francesco Pitassio
Francesco Pitassio is associate professor of film studies at the Università degli Studi di Udine, where he directs the Ph.D. programme in art history, film and media studies, and music. He is on the editorial board of NECSUS-European Journal of Media Studies and the steering committee of NECS. He edited Writing and Image (Forum, 1998) and Multiple-language Versions III (2005) with Leonardo Quaresima, the Cinéma & Cie special issue ‘The Geopolitics of Cinema and the Study of Film’ (2013) with Tim Bergfelder and Vinzenz Hediger, and Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe: Film Cultures and Histories (I.B. Tauris, 2017) with Dorota Ostrowska and Zsuzsanna Varga. His books include Ombre silenziose (Campanotto, 2002), Maschere e marionette (Campanotto, 2002), Attore/Divo (Il Castoro, 2003) and Il cinema neorealista (with Paolo Noto, ArchetipoLibri, 2010). His research focuses on film theory, film acting and stardom, Italian film history and culture, documentary cinema and Central-Eastern European cinema.