Michele Guerra

Michele Guerra (Parma, 1982) is Associate Professor of Film Theory at the University of Parma. Among his books, both as author and editor, The indifferent mechanism. The conception of history in Stanley Kubrick's cinema (2007), Sequences. Cinema notebooks 1949-1951 (2009), The last fires. Italian cinema and a farmer world from fascism to the seventies (2010), The translated images. Use passages transformations (2011), the Italian editions of Victor Oscar Freeburg’s The Art of Photoplay Making (2013) and Torben Grodal’s Embodied Visions (2014, Premium threshold as Best Translation), Inventions from the truth. Speeches on neorealism (2015), The empathic screen. Cinema and neuroscience (2015, with Vittorio Gallese). In 2011 he has been the recipient of a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and he is currently Principal Investigator of a “SIR Project” funded by MIUR (Ministry of Education, of the University and Research) on Italian film criticism in the 1940s and 1950s. He is the editor of the cinema Pandora (Diabasis) and Associate Editor of the film journal “Fata Morgana”.

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