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Francesco Casetti
Francesco Casetti (born April 2, 1947) is an Italian naturalized US citizen film and television theorist. He is Sterling Professor of Humanities and Film and Media Studies at Yale University. He has been described as "the best analyst of cinematographic enunciation".
In 1970 Casetti earned an MA at the Catholic University of Milan, where in 1974 he also received an advanced degree in film and communication studies. His positions include assistant professor at the University of Genova (1974–1980), associate professor at Catholic University of Milan (1984–1994), full professor at the University of Trieste (1994–1998) and then at Catholic University of Milan, where he was the chair of the department of communication and performing Arts.
He taught as an associate professor at University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle (1977) and as visiting professor at the University of Iowa (1988, 1991 and 1998) and at Harvard University. In 2000 he was awarded the chair of Italian Culture for a distinguished scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (2000). He had fellowships at the University of Otago (summer 2011), at the Bauhaus University, Weimar (summer 2012), and at the Free University of Berlin (fall 2019 and spring 2023).
He is a member of the advisory board of the journals Necsus, Comunicazioni Sociali. Journal of Media, Performing Arts and Cultural Studies, Cinéma & Cie. Film and Media Studies Journal and Fata Morgana. Quadrimestrale di cinema e visioni.
Casetti was on the boards of the research institutions Gemelli-Musatti (Milan), the International Center for Family Studies, and the Mattei Foundation. He was part of the board of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, the Istituto Luce in Rome, the Triennale in Milan and the MaxMuseo in Lugano.
He is a full member of the Accademia degli Agiati, Rovereto, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences (Bologna), and a foreign member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (Naples).
He and Jane Gaines of Columbia University set up a permanent seminar on Histories of Film Theories, an international network of film scholars aimed at an exploration of the field of film and media theories.
Casetti's research concerns cinema and visual media: their audience, their relationship with the cultural forms of modernity and their impact on space. His early works are influenced by the semiotics of cinema, and mostly concern film analysis, with essays on Visconti's La terra trema and Il gattopardo, De Sica's Sciuscià, and a book on Bernardo Bertolucci (1975); he has also written about the television series (Un'altra volta ancora, 1984). These works led to a textbook on the subject, Analisi del film (1990), followed by Analisi della televisione (1998), both written with Federico di Chio.
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Francesco Casetti
Francesco Casetti (born April 2, 1947) is an Italian naturalized US citizen film and television theorist. He is Sterling Professor of Humanities and Film and Media Studies at Yale University. He has been described as "the best analyst of cinematographic enunciation".
In 1970 Casetti earned an MA at the Catholic University of Milan, where in 1974 he also received an advanced degree in film and communication studies. His positions include assistant professor at the University of Genova (1974–1980), associate professor at Catholic University of Milan (1984–1994), full professor at the University of Trieste (1994–1998) and then at Catholic University of Milan, where he was the chair of the department of communication and performing Arts.
He taught as an associate professor at University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle (1977) and as visiting professor at the University of Iowa (1988, 1991 and 1998) and at Harvard University. In 2000 he was awarded the chair of Italian Culture for a distinguished scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (2000). He had fellowships at the University of Otago (summer 2011), at the Bauhaus University, Weimar (summer 2012), and at the Free University of Berlin (fall 2019 and spring 2023).
He is a member of the advisory board of the journals Necsus, Comunicazioni Sociali. Journal of Media, Performing Arts and Cultural Studies, Cinéma & Cie. Film and Media Studies Journal and Fata Morgana. Quadrimestrale di cinema e visioni.
Casetti was on the boards of the research institutions Gemelli-Musatti (Milan), the International Center for Family Studies, and the Mattei Foundation. He was part of the board of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, the Istituto Luce in Rome, the Triennale in Milan and the MaxMuseo in Lugano.
He is a full member of the Accademia degli Agiati, Rovereto, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences (Bologna), and a foreign member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (Naples).
He and Jane Gaines of Columbia University set up a permanent seminar on Histories of Film Theories, an international network of film scholars aimed at an exploration of the field of film and media theories.
Casetti's research concerns cinema and visual media: their audience, their relationship with the cultural forms of modernity and their impact on space. His early works are influenced by the semiotics of cinema, and mostly concern film analysis, with essays on Visconti's La terra trema and Il gattopardo, De Sica's Sciuscià, and a book on Bernardo Bertolucci (1975); he has also written about the television series (Un'altra volta ancora, 1984). These works led to a textbook on the subject, Analisi del film (1990), followed by Analisi della televisione (1998), both written with Federico di Chio.