Keynote Speakers

Tom Gunning

Professor di Art History, Cinema and Media Studies è Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Tom Gunning presso il dipartimento di Film and Media dell’Università di Chicago.

I suoi studi sul cinema delle origini e sul concetto di “attrazione” hanno contribuito in modo significativo allo sviluppo della riflessione sull’intreccio tra cinema, visualità e cultura della modernità. Tra i numerosi saggi e volumi di cui è autore, tradotti in numerose lingue, si ricordano: D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film: The Early Years at Biograph (Champaign, University of Illinois Press, 1991), An Invention of the Devil? Religion and Early Cinema (con Roland Cosandey e André Gaudreault; Lausanne, Les Presses de L'Université Laval/Éditions Payot, 1992) e Pathé 1900: Fragments d'une filmographie analytique du cinema des premiers temps (con André Gaudreault e Alain Lacasse; Paris/Quebec, Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle/Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 1993), The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity (London, British Film Institute, 2000), The Fantasia Of Color in Early Cinema (con Giovanna Fossati, Jonathan Rosen e Josh Yumibe; Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam Press, 2015). Attualmente sta lavorando alla redazione di The Invention of the Moving and Technological Image, un'indagine storica e teorica sull'immagine proiettata e in movimento dal sedicesimo secolo fino ai nuovi media.

Tom Gunning is Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the Departments of Art History and of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.

Pathé 1900: Fragments (with Roland Cosandey and André Gaudreault; Lausanne, Les Presses de L'Université Laval/Éditions Payot, 1992) and An Invention of the Devil? Religion and Early Cinema(Champaign, University of Illinois Press, 1991), D.W Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film: The Early Years at Biograph His studies on early cinema and his concept of “attraction” have had a lasting impact on the reflection about film, visuality, and modernity. Among his many books, translated in several different languages, are: d'une filmographie analytique du cinema des premiers temps (con André Gaudreault e Alain Lacasse; Paris/Quebec, Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle/Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 1993), The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity (London, British Film Institute, 2000), The Fantasia Of Color in Early Cinema (with Giovanna Fossati, Jonathan Rosen and Josh Yumibe; Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam Press, 2015). He is currently working on The Invention of the Moving and Technological Image, a historical and theoretical investigation on projected and moving images from the sixteenth century to new media.

Thomas Elsaesser

Thomas Elsaesser è professore emerito di Film and Television Studies presso il Dipartimento di Media and Culture dell’Università di Amsterdam. Dal 2013 è anche Visiting Professor presso la Columbia University, ed in precedenza ha insegnato presso l’Università dell’East Anglia e la Yale University.

I numerosi libri e saggi che ha dedicato all’estetica del film, al cinema hollywoodiano ed europeo, alla teoria del melodramma e ai nuovi media hanno dato un forte contributo agli studi sul cinema. Tra i suoi scritti più recenti ricordiamo: Film Theory – An Introduction through the Senses (con Malte Hagener; ed. italiana Teoria del Film. Un’introduzione, Torino, Einaudi, 2009), The Persistence of Hollywood (New York, Routledge, 2012), German Cinema - Terror and Trauma: Cultural Memory Since 1945 (New York, Routledge 2013), Körper, Tod und Technik (con Michael Wedel; Paderborn, Konstanz University Press, 2016), Film History as Media Archaeology (Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2016) e il suo ultimo libro European Cinema and Continental Thought (London, Bloomsbury, 2018).

Agli sviluppi del suo pensiero sono dedicati i volumi Mind the Screen. Media Concepts According to Thomas Elsaesser, a cura di Jaap Kooijman, Patricia Pisters e Wanda Strauven (Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2008) e Die Spur durch den Spiegel. Der Film in der Kultur der Moderne, a cura di Malte Hagener, Johann N. Schmidt e Michael (Berlin, Bertz + Fischer, 2004).

Thomas Elsaesser is Professor Emeritus of Film and Television Studies at the Media and Culture Department of the Amsterdam University. Since 2013 he is also Visiting Professor at Columbia University and has previously taught at the University of East Anglia and at Yale University.

The numerous books and essays he has dedicated to Film Aesthetics, Hollywood and European Cinema, the theory of Melodrama, and New Media have had a large impact on the field of Film Studies. Among his recent works are: Film Theory – An Introduction through the Senses (with Malte Hagener), The Persistence of Hollywood (New York, Routledge, 2012), German Cinema - Terror and Trauma: Cultural Memory Since 1945 (New York, Routledge 2013), Körper, Tod und Technik (with Michael Wedel; Paderborn, Konstanz University Press, 2016), Film History as Media Archaeology (Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2016) and his latest book European Cinema and Continental Thought (London, Bloomsbury, 2018).

Die Spur , by Jaap Kooijman, Patricia Pisters and Wanda Strauven (Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2008) and Mind the Screen. Media Concepts According to Thomas ElsaesserThe books durch den Spiegel. Der Film in der Kultur der Moderne, by Malte Hagener, Johann N. Schmidt and Michael (Berlin, Bertz + Fischer, 2004) are investigations of his thought.