Luca Caminati
- Professor (Film Studies), Cinema
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Biography
Education
PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Laurea (Università Statale di Genova, summa cum laude)
Teaching activities
Graduate Courses
FMST 801: The Anticolonial Film Archive: Global Counterculture (1955-1975)
FMST 804: Cinema and Exploration
FMST 807: PhD Pro-seminar: The Moving Image in the Postcolonial Condition
FMST 660: Approaches to Pasolini’s Cinema
FMST 600: Methods in Film Studies
FMST 800: PhD Pro-seminar: The Geopolitical Imaginary of Film Studies
FMST 655: The Essay Film
FMST 665: Cinema and Exploration
FMST 635G: Postcolonial Theory and Cinema
FMST 625D: Italian Neorealism in its Global Context
FMST 803B: Theories and Practice of Realism in the Cinema
Undergraduate Courses
FMST 328: Non-Fiction Film Since 1956
FMST 412: Geographies of Cinema: The Anticolonial Italian Films
FMST 412: Geographies of Cinema: Radical Italian Cinema
FMST 318: The Moving Image and Society
FMST 425: Contemporary Film Theory
FMST 498: Fake Documentary
FMST 321: Studies in Film Directors
FMST 315: Introduction to Film Theory
Supervisions
Postdoctoral Supervision:
André Hallak (PBEEE / Bourses de stage postdoctoral Québec-Brésil, 2024-2025)
Graduate Supervision
Doctoral Thesis Supervision
Emelia Steenekamp (PhD, Film and Moving Image Studies, 2024-)
Clara Casian (PhD, Humanities, in progress, 2022-2023)
Augustin Rugiero (PhD, Film and Moving Image, in progress, 2020-)
Katie Zozula (PhD, Film and Moving Image, 2019-2021)
Giuseppe Fidotta (PhD, Film and Moving Image, 2022. Title: Antimafia/Media: Value, Imaginary, and Community in Western Sicily Mafia/Media)
Egor Shmonin (PhD, Film and Moving Image, in progress, 2015-)
Patrick Smith (PhD, Film and Moving Image, 2020. Title: Capital, Carcerality, Borders: Documentary Spatiality)
Fulvia Massimi (PhD, Film and Moving Image, 2018. Title: Mosaic Men: Critical Masculinities and National Identities in Contemporary Subnational Cinemas (Québec, Scotland, and Flanders)
Master Thesis Supervision
Armaan Chainani (Film Studies 2024-)
Nikolas Vasilakos (Film Studies, 2023-)
Théa Trudeau-Tremblay (Film Studies, 2023. Title: Plastic Trees Tell no Tale: The Non-Subjective Accounts of ‘Nature’ in Philippe Grandrieux’s Sombre and Un Lac)
Malorie Urbanovich (Film Studies, 2024. Title: Idle Cinema: A Crisis of Knowledge in Narrative Film.
Laura Fattori (Film Studies, 2021. Title: Narratives of Post-Conflict: Representation of Violence in Colombian Contemporary Cinema)
Julia Huggins (Film Studies, 2016. Title: Analog Amnesia in the Digital Age)
Dominique Glassman (Film Studies, 2015. Title: Paris, “En Carton”)
Publications
Traveling Auteurs: The Geopolitics of Post-War Italian Cinema. Indiana University Press, 2024.
Cinema of Exploration: Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice (co-edited with James Cahill). New York: American Film Institute/Routledge. 2021.
Roberto Rossellini documentarista. Una cultura della realtà. Rome: Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia/Carocci, 2012, 142 pp.
Il cinema come happening. Il primitivismo pasoliniano e la scena
artistica italiana degli anni Sessanta/ Cinema as Happening. Pasolini’s Primitivism and the Sixties Italian Art Scene (bilingual edition). Milan: Postmedia, 2010, 61pp.
Orientalismo eretico: Pasolini e il cinema del Terzo Mondo. Milan: Bruno Mondadori, 2007, 131 pp.