The Speakers

Associate Professor of Film and Media at University of Leeds. Her principal research interest is the relationship between gender and film, with an emphasis on production and representation. Within the context of British film and cinema she is interested in women's involvement in the production process and questions of agency, authorship, gender and production cultures, and textual femininities/screen representations of women.

Director of Graduate Studies and Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Humanities and Professor of Film Studies at Yale University. During the 1970s and 1980s, his research has been mostly focused on semiotics of film and television. During the ‘90s he increasingly moved toward an original combination of close analysis and ethnographic research of actual audiences, introducing the notion of “communicative negotiations”. More recently he explored the role of cinema in the context of modernity and the reconfiguration of cinema in a post-medium epoch.

Professor of Cinema, Photography and Television at Università della Calabria. His reseach is concerning the history of film and cinema theories, the relationship between cinema and philosophy. He also works on the forms and genres of Italian cinema. He founded and directs the Italian film journal Fata Morgana.

Malte Hagener is Professor of Media Studies with a focus on the history, aesthetics, and theory of film at the Philipps University Marburg. He directs the DFG-funded project media/rep/ – Establishment of an open access repository in media studies and is currently dean of the faculty of German studies and art. He works on the structuring effects of media as visible in the networks of the avant-garde, in the emergence of film culture as a specific practice, as well as in the logics of split screen filmmaking.

Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Film at University of Wisconsin-Madison. His teaching and research concentrate on digital media production, media history, and the intersections between media history and the digital humanities. He is the author of Hollywood Vault: Film Libraries before Home Video, which explores the content libraries owned by the Hollywood studios and how the value of old movies changed over time. His current book projects intersect with the digital projects he is working on and explore the preservation of podcasts and the history of Hollywood trade papers.

Professor of Cinema and Research Chair in Transnational Media Arts and Cultures at Concordia University. Masha Salazkina's work incorporates transnational approaches to film theory and cultural history with particular focus on different forms of film education. Her research focused on topics such as geopolitics of film and media theory; political histories of amateur film production; international networks of radical political filmmakers in the 1960s-70s; translations of Marxist film theory in Italy and Cuba. Her current research centers on the shared cinematic cultures of global socialisms and in the 20th century.