Federico Pierotti
Associate Professor
Department of History, Archeology, Geography, Art and Entert
University of Firenze
Italy
Biography
Federico Pierotti is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florence where he teaches Film History and Forms of Contemporary Cinema. He has been a research fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University (New York) for the academic year 2015-2016 (spring semester), with a project dedicated to the emotional impact of color in contemporary cinema . His books The Seduction of the Speech: History and Color Culture in Cinema (Le Mani, 2012) and A Color Archeology in Italian Cinema: Technicolor and Antonioni (ETS, 2016) regard color in film history as a central issue to modern media visual culture. He published in several journals (including Bianco e Nero , Fata Morgana, Interfaces, Quaderni d'italianistica)and participated in international conferences on Film, Media and Color Studies. He is part of the editorial board of the journal Image: Cinema History Notes . In January 2014 he received his qualifications to be an Associate Professor.
Research Interest
Cinema, photography and television
Publications
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Pierotti, Federico (2016). Cinema without discipline. The Florentine case. In: David Bruni, Antioco Floris, Massimo Locatelli, Simone Venturini. From screen to chair. The birth of university teaching in cinema and audiovisual in Italy, pp. 165-171, Rome: Carocci, ISBN: 978-88-430-7643-7.
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Pierotti, Federico (2016). The colored view. Color and attraction in the origins of cinema. In: Marcello Seregni (curator). The color image. "Le fer à cheval", a Pathé film, pp. 35-40, Dublin: Artdigiland, ISBN: 978-1909088146.
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Pierotti, Federico (2016). Fosco Giachetti. CSCI QUARTERS, vol. XII, pp. 218-219, ISSN: 1885-1975
