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Luca Caminati's research deals with post-colonial theory and orientalist discourses in post-WWII Italian cinema and media, with a specific interest in non-fiction film and media arts. In 2009-2010 he was the recipient of the Paul Mellon/National Endowments for the Humanities "Rome Prize", a residential fellowship awarded by the American Academy in Rome. His new book, titled Traveling Auteurs: the Geopolitics of Post-War Italian Cinema (Indiana UP, 2023) investigates the "Third World" documentary films of Roberto Rossellini in India, Pier Paolo Pasolini in Africa and the Middle East, and Michelangelo Antonioni in China. He’s currently at work on a new SSHRC-founded project titled “The Italian Anticolonial Film Archive: Global Counterculture (1955-1975).” He is also serving as associate editor for the journal Italica.He previously taught at Colgate University and the University of Florida.
Education
PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Laurea (Università Statale di Genova, summa cum laude)
Orientalismo eretico: Pasolini e il cinema del Terzo Mondo. Milan: Bruno Mondadori, 2007
Roberto Rossellini documentarista. Una cultura della realtĂ . Rome: Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia/Carocci, 2012.
Cinema of Exploration: Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice (co-edited with James Cahill). New York: American Film Institute/Routledge. 2021.
Graduate Courses
FMST 660: Approaches to the the Cinema of Pasolini
FMST600: Methods in Film Studies
FMST800:PhD Pro-Sem: The Geopolitical Imaginary of Film Studies
FMST655: The Essay Film
FMST665: Cinema and Exploration
FMST635: Postcolonial Theory and Cinema
FMST625: Italian Neorealism in its Global Context
FMST803: Theories and Practice of Realism in the Cinema
Undergraduate Courses
FMST 315: Introduction to Film Theory
FMST 328: Non-Fiction Film Since 1956
FMST 319: The Moving Image and Society
FMST425: Contemporary Film Theory
FMST498: ¡Fake Docs!
Traveling Auteurs: The Geopolitics of Post-War Italian Cinema. Indiana University Press, 2024 (forthcoming)
Cinema of Exploration: Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice (co-edited with James Cahill). New York: American Film Institute/Routledge. 2021.
Roberto Rossellini documentarista. Una cultura della realtà. Rome: Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia/Carocci, 2012, 142 pp.
Il cinema come happening. Il primitivismo pasoliniano e la scena
artistica italiana degli anni Sessanta/ Cinema as Happening. Pasolini’s Primitivism and the Sixties Italian Art Scene (bilingual edition). Milan: Postmedia, 2010, 61pp.
Orientalismo eretico: Pasolini e il cinema del Terzo Mondo. Milan: Bruno Mondadori, 2007, 131 pp.