Francesco Pitassio

Francesco Pitassio is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Udine, specializing in film acting and stardom and Italian and Central-Eastern European film history. Formerly the Italian Principal Investigator for the EU-HRA project, VICTOR-E: Visual Culture of Trauma, Obliteration, and Reconstruction in Post-WW II Europe from 2019 to 2022, his work includes Attore/Divo(Il Castoro, 2003), and Neorealist Film Culture (Amsterdam University Press, 2019). He edited, with Dorota Ostrowska and Zsuzsanna Varga, Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe. Film Cultures and Histories(I.B. Tauris, 2017).