Phd in MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS

email: emiliano.morreale@uniroma1.it
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Emiliano Morreale is Assistant Professor at the "Sapienza" University of Rome.
On December 2011, he was appointed assistant professor in Cinema, fotografia e televisione (L-Art/06) at the Department of Humanities of Università di Torino. In November 2015 he was appointed assisant professor in Cinema, fotografia e television (L-Art/06) at the “Sapienza” University of Rome, where he currently teaches Storia del cinema, Letteratura e cinema, Cinema e scrittura, Linguaggi audiovisivi and Forme e modelli del cinema italiano.
He was chief curator of Cineteca Nazionale (Italian National Film Archive) from 2013 to 2016, and currently is part of the editorial board of the festival "Il cinema ritrovato" (Bologna). He was editor of the book series "Quaderni della Cineteca Nazionale" (Rubbettino) and "Italiana. Storie di cinema" (Donzelli). He is part of the steering committee of the journals "La valle dell'Eden" and“Fata Morgana”, and part of the editorial board of the book series "Cinema" (Rubbettino) and "Frames" (Fondazione Ente dello spettacolo). Since 2012 he is member of the Actor and Star Studies Center (Humanities Department, Università di Torino, 2012), a research center devoted to the study of acting and stardom in film, theater, television, and media.
His researches is focused on a socio-cultural reading of Italian cinema from 1945 on. The analysis of some main historical turning points developed in some connected fields: the attitude of Italian intellectuals towards cinematic experience; the deconstruction of the idea of auteur and genre, showing their intersections; the importance of reception and the cultural and intermedial context. In this perspective he studied the writer-director Mario Soldati ("Mario Soldati. Le carriere di un libertino", Le Mani/ Cineteca di Bologna, Recco/ Bologna 2006) and the actor-director Carmelo Bene, the relationship between Italian writers and neo-realistic cinema, the auteur cinema of the 60s (Cinema d’autore degli anni sessanta, Il Castoro, Milano 2011), the melodrama of he 50s (Così piangevano. Il cinema mélo nell’Italia degli anni ’50, Donzelli, Roma 2011). In this field, his most theoretic book is L’invenzione della nostalgia. Il vintage nel cinema italiano e dintorni (Donzelli, Roma 2009), focused on new kinds of sensibility for the past in cinema, television and literature.
current main research project is a map (once again from a cultural studies and genre theory perspective)of mavia movie and its shaping of public opinion.
Since 2004 she presented her work at several national and international conferences, and was the organizer of the following conferences and seminars: "C'era una volta in Sicilia. I 50 anni del Gattopardo" (CSC Cineteca Nazionale/ Assessorato ai Beni Culturali della Regione Sicilia, Palermo december 7, 2013): "Il cinema di Pietro Germi" (CSCCineteca Nazionale/ University of Genova/ University of Turin, Roma- Genova, December 2-3-11, 2014, in collaboration with L. Malavasi); "Intorno al neorealismo. Voci, contesti, linguaggi e culture dell'Italia del dopoguerra" (University of Turin, 1- 3 dicembre 2015, in collaboration with G. Carluccio, M. Pierini e F. Prono); " Italian Popular Cinema. Sources, Archives and International Reception" (Sapienza Rome University/ Sheffield Hallam University/ Istituto austriaco di cultura, Rome November 30- december 1, 2017, in collaboration with A. Ehrenreich).
In 2016 he has edited the special issue of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Bruxelles "Carta d'Italia", devoted to Italia contemporaey documentaries.
He was PI of the “Sapienza” University of Rome local unit, of the PRIN 2015 project “Circolazione Internazionale del Cinema Italiano (CInCIt)” (International Circulation of Italian Cinema), with prof. Massimo Scaglioni (Università Cattolica) as principal investigator.He is was PI of the “Sapienza” University of Rome local unit, of the PRIN 2017 “F-Actor”, with Francesco Pitassio (Università di Udine) as a Principal Investigator.
He was granted by “Sapienza” UNiversity of Rome a research financing for the projects "Il cinema popolare italiano e la critica internazionale" (Piccoli progetti di Ateneo 2016) and "Guido Aristarco, "Cinema nuovo" e la cultura cinematografica nel dopoguerra italiano" (Piccoli progetti di Ateneo 2017).