Roy Menarini is Full Professor in Cinema and Cultural Industry at the University of Bologna; he is senior editor of the academic journal “Cinergie”, he directs the series of the same name for the publisher Mimesis, he coordinates the international research group CFC (Culture. Fashion, Communication), he is Principal Investigator of the PRIN PNRR 2022 “Celebr-age”. He has also written numerous volumes and essays on contemporary cinema and studied the forms of film culture, including – recently – Il discorso e lo sguardo (Diabasis, 2018), La grande illusione (Mimesis, 2021), Hitchcock. La donna che visse due volte (Carocci, 2023). He is consultant for the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, artistic director of the La Settima Arte festival in Rimini, and curator of numerous education projects (Saper guardare un film, with AGIS, FICE and the Department of the Arts) and screen education work packages for schools.