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Luca Caminati

Professor/Program Head Film Studies

Department: Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema

Faculty: Fine Arts


Luca Caminati
Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext. 4632
Email: luca.caminati@concordia.ca
Website(s): https://concordia.academia.edu/LucaCaminati

Expertise:

Post-WWII Italian and European cinema, media, and culture., Representation of race, minority and diasporic groups in European cinema and media.

Language(s) spoken:

English, Italian


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.

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