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Vito Zagarrio
Vito Zagarrio teaches ’Istituzioni di Regia’ at University of Roma Tre and ‘Italian Film’ at John Cabot University in Rome. His research interests are Italian and American cinema. His recent books are Nouvelle vague italiana: Il cinema del nuovo millennio (Marsilio, 2022), A occhi chiusi e spalancati, La regia in Kubrick (Audino, 2022), Un sogno lungo il cinema: Francis Ford Coppola (Rubbettino, 2020) and Eppure cinema: Appunti di un regista irregolare (Sabinae, 2021). Other monographs are Cinema e fascismo: Film modelli immaginari (Marsilio, 2004) and Cinema italiano anni novanta (Marsilio, 2001). He is also director of the feature films La donna della luna (‘Moon woman’) (1988), Bonus malus (1993), Tre giorni d’anarchia (‘Three days of anarchy’) (2005), Le seduzioni (‘Seductions’) (2023) and several documentaries. He directed numerous video-essays on filmmakers, including Monicelli, Lizzani, Argento, Scola and Scarpelli. He was also artistic director of the Palladium Film Festival CineMaOltre in Rome and of the Costaiblea Film Festival in Scicli and Ragusa.
Contact: Università Roma Tre, Dams, via Ostiense 139, 00154 Roma, Italy.