Luca Zamparini
Adjunct
Luca Zamparini has an M.A. in Italian Studies from NYU and he is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is currently writing his dissertation: “From post-war auteurs to global cinema. Venice film festival and canon-making". His research situates itself with and against the grains of existing film festival studies. By focusing on the festival’s three major components - main competitions, retrospectives, funding programs – he examines how the festival helped to create the discursive space defined as Art film, and how this space is constantly contested and renegotiated during the process of mediating an intricate network of various factors, including directors, media, industry, market, and nation-states. He is co-author, together with Dario Marcucci, of “Facing the Failure. Characters as Political Allegory in La Terrazza ”in The Cinema of Ettore Scola, edited by Edward Bowen and Rémi Lanzoni. Wayne State University Press (June 2020). He taught at Hunter College, Queens College, Pace University, Kingsborough Community College, and Fashion Institute of Technology.
