Marco Dalla Gassa is an Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His fields of interest include intercultural issues in cinema, with a special focus on travel films, the circulation of “World Cinema”, film festivals and the forms of construction of authorial identities. In addition to essays, he co-edited several special issues in international academic journals (including “Cinema & Cie”, “Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies” and “Studies in European Cinema”), and is the author of volumes dedicated to the films of Abbas Kiarostami, Akira Kurosawa and Zhang Yimou and of manuals on contemporary Asian cinema. His most recent book, Orient (to) Ex-press. Travel films, ethno-graphies, auteur theory (Mimesis, 2016), deals with the odeporic experiences of a number of modern directors. He is also the curator of festivals, retrospectives and festival sections, member of magazine boards and co-director of the series “Library: Cinema, Media and Cultural Studies” by Meltemi Editore.
Marco Dalla Gassa, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice