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Marco Dalla Gassa
Marco Dalla Gassa is assistant professor at the Università Ca’ Foscari in Venice. He is a film scholar whose research focuses on Asian cinema, orientalism, film festivals, auteur theory and film analysis. He is the author of two monographs: Abbas Kiarostami (Le Mani, 2001) and Il cinema di Zhang Yimou (Le Mani, 2003, co-authored with Fabrizio Colamartino), Il cinema dell’Estremo Oriente. Cina, Corea del Sud, Giappone, Hong Kong, Taiwan, dagli anni Ottanta ad oggi (Utet, 2010, co-authored with Dario Tomasi), an analysis of Kurosawa’s masterpiece Rashōmon (Lindau, 2012) and Orient to Express (Mimesis, 2016) about orientalism and exoticism in modernist European cinema. He is also co-curator for the book series Biblioteca: Cinema, Media e Studi Culturali for Meltemi Press.
Contact: Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali, Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Dorsoduro 3484/D, 30123 Venice, Italy.