Chiara Grizzaffi received her PhD from the IULM University of Milan in 2015, with a thesis on online video essays, an audiovisual form of analysis and film criticism. Since 2009, she has been collaborating in the teaching activities of the Department of Arts and Media at IULM University, giving lectures and seminars on the history and language of cinema. In 2015, she was awarded additional courses on multimedia approaches to film history and analysis.
Her volume, I film attraverso i film. From the unobtainable text to the video essays, is currently being published for Mimesis. Her essays have appeared in "Bianco e Nero" and in the volumes Critofilm. Cinema che pensa il cinema, curated by Adriano Aprà (Pesaro Nuovo Cinema, 2016), La costruzione dell'immaginario seriale contemporaneo. Heterotopias, characters, worlds, edited by Sara Martin (Mimesis, 2014) and Voglia di cinema. Communication and promotion of the film in Italy, by Gianni Canova (Forum, 2013). She has collaborated with the magazines "Duellanti" and "8 e ½".
She is co-editor of "[in]Transition", the first academic magazine dedicated to the publication of videos on cinema and media, and member of the editorial staff of "Cinergie" and "L'avventura". She is co-editor of the Cinepolitica column of the magazine "ComPol", published by Il Mulino.
Areas of scientific interest
Audiovisual forms of research, analysis and criticism of the film
Practices of appropriation and reuse of cinematic images
Grammar of audiovisual languages
History and practice of film criticism (with particular attention to multimedia and network forms)
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