Francesco D’Asero is a research fellow within the PRIN project “Reframing Italian Film Festivals. Histories, politics, cultures (RIFF)” at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro” and a contract professor of Film Analysis and Audiovisual Language at the same university. He is also a PhD candidate in “Landscapes of the Contemporary City. Policies, techniques, and visual studies”, curriculum “Cinema and Visual Culture”, at the Roma Tre University. His research interests mainly concern Italian cinema and its interrelations with the cultural industry.
His research project aims to analyze the forms and languages of neorealist comedy from a historical-cultural perspective, with particular reference to the experience of pink neorealism. He is a member of the editorial board of the interdisciplinary studies journal “Cinema e Storia” and the organizational staff of the “Palladium Film Festival”. He has participated in various conferences and has published essays in collective volumes and articles in journals such as “Bianco & Nero – Quarterly of the Experimental Center of Cinematography”, “Ágalma – Journal of Cultural Studies and Aesthetics”, and “I quaderni del CSCI – Annual Journal of Italian Cinema”.
University of Bari “Aldo Moro” – Department of Humanistic Research and Innovation (DIRIUM)