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Luisella Farinotti

Full professor
Luisella Farinotti

Department of Communication, Arts and Media
Faculty of Communication
Luisella Farinotti

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+39 02 891412604

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Graduated in Philosophy at the University of Milan with a thesis on the ontological problem in E. Bloch, Th. W. Adorno and J. Habermas, she then obtained a postgraduate degree in Social Communications - Performance at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, with a thesis on the problem of time in modern German cinema.

She teaches Film Aesthetics at the degree course in Communication, Media and Advertising; Media Aesthetics at the degree course in Arts, Entertainment and Cultural Events; Filmology at the degree course in Cinema, Television and New Media.

Since 1995, she has taught at IULM University both for the degree course in Communication Sciences (History of Italian Cinema; History, Aesthetics and Film Criticism, Digital Imaginaries) and for the degree course in Communication in the Art and Culture Markets (Art Media; Forms of Artistic Representation).
From 1998 to 2005, she taught at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the Catholic University (Milan and Brescia offices: Institutions of cinema and audiovisual; History and criticism of cinema; History and historiography of media); she also taught at the degree course in Industrial Design of the Politecnico di Milano (Sociology of communication), at the Master's degree course in Analysis and design of the television product of the High School in Communication of the Catholic University of Milan (Media Imaginaries and Cultural Industry). At the same University she also held courses for the Master in Audiovisual Communication (2006-2008) and for the School of Specialization in Analysis and Management of Communication (1999-2001).

She has participated in national research projects (Miur, Cofin, Prin -1997/99; 1999/2001; 2002/2004; 2008/2009) on I processi di rinnovamento dei "quadri" nel cinema italiano; on Le tecnologie nel cinema; on Discorsi sociali, soggetti mediali e costruzione del sapere tecnologico: il caso della diffusione della cultura informatica e telematica in Italia; and on Culture marginali e industria culturale in Italia.
She has carried out research activities for Rai, VQPT, the Culture Sector of the Lombardy Region, the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana, the Fondazione Cariplo, the Associazione Interessi Metropolitani di Milano.
From 1996 to 1999, she was responsible for the research activities of the Observatory on Communication of the Catholic University of Milan, directed by Fausto Colombo.

She is currently scientific director, with Gianni Canova, of the European project Teaching European History through Cinema. - Creative Europe - Media Programme (Call: EACEA 25/2016).

She is a member of the Scientific Committee of CISA - International Conservatory of Audiovisual Sciences, Lugano SSSC; of the Executive Committee of Self Media Lab. International Research Centre on Writing, Performance and Self-Technology at the Department of Humanities at the University of Pavia; and of the Scientific Committee of Balthazar, Centre for Film Studies at the Visual Arts Centre of the University of Bergamo.

She is vice-director of the Department of Communication, Arts and Media at IULM University.

She is a member of the Doctoral College in Visual and Media Studies, Iulm University. From 2011 to 2017 she was a member of the Doctoral College in Communication and New Technologies at Iulm University. From 2013 to 2017 she was in the Doctoral College in Literature and Media: Narrativity and Languages of the same University.

She is on the Management Committee of the peer reviewed magazine "Cinéma & Cie. International Film Studies Journal" (Mimesis International); in the scientific-editorial committee of the peer reviewed magazine Polifemo (Liguori); in the scientific committee of the series of studies on cinema "Cinergie" (Mimesis) and in the scientific committee of the peer reviewed magazine "Cinergie- the cinema and other arts"; is a member of the Steering Committee of the Afterimage Series - Themes of visual culture, (Aracne).

In recent years she has worked on image theory and history, in particular the relationship between image and memory, writing about the self and family films and the relationship between cinema and photography, with special attention to the photographic archives used as great visual atlases (in Harun Farocki, Gerhard Richter and Linda Fregni Nagler, among others). One of the first to study Gianikian cinema and the experiences of the Found Footage Film in Italy, she dealt with the relationship between cinema and history and political cinema - from 2009 to 2016 she was responsible for the column "Cinepolitica" of the quarterly magazine "ComPol Comunicazione Politica", published by Il Mulino. A scholar of modern German cinema and Edgar Reitz, she has carried out research on Italian cinema, both in the 1960s and 1970s and in contemporary Italian cinema.

Main areas of scientific interest

Theories of image and visual culture

The relationship between image and memory, not only in a historical or testimonial sense.

Amateur practices and non-theatrical production

Self-Writing and Family Movies

The relationship between cinema and photography: between film and photography, between still and moving images.

Atlases, collections and visual inventories: rewriting as an artistic practice, the catalogue as a cultural form.

The image of the body, the body as an image.

The geography of cinema.

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