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Lorenzo Marmo
Lorenzo Marmo is currently Lauro de Bosis post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University. He also teaches History of Italian Cinema at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’. His research is concerned with the investigation of theories of space and spatiality from the perspective of audio-visual media, with particular attention to the Italian post-war context. He obtained his Ph.D. from Roma Tre University in 2014, with a dissertation on cinema, photography and the urban landscape in the first half of the Twentieth Century. He has also published essays on a vast array of other topics: from the metropolitan spaces of American film noir to the Iraq setting in recent war films; from to the relationship between cinema and the museum context to the melodramatic element in the work of Luchino Visconti; from a wideranging analysis of Mary Ann Doane’s theory of media to the role of recent social networks such as Tumblr and Instagram in the contemporary online environment.