Andrea Gelardi, Ph.D.
Forschungsinteressen
- Film Festival Cultures and Cultural Diplomacy (Filme Festival Studies and Transnational Film History)
- Third World Political Cinema and Transnational Film Networks (Political Cinema and Anticolonial Theory)
- Cinema and Postwar City Spaces (Urban Cultural History and Film Analysis)
- Italian Film Culture and National Identity (Archival Research and Film Historiography)
Forschungsprojekt
Vita
Andrea Gelardi is a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the cultural history
of cinema. His research interest include the Third World political cinema, film
festival histories and the relationship between cinema and urbanization. He earned his PhD in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews
(Scotland, UK) in 2022, supported
by the AD Links Foundation and the Russell Trust. His doctoral research critically examines how European film
festivals have shaped cultural hierarchies and narratives of cinematic modernity,
contributing to the historiography of global cinema by exploring the interplay
between festival culture, transnational film networks, and postcolonial
cinematic expressions. Andrea has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the
University of Bari, contributing to the projects Reframing Italian Film
Festivals and A Regional Archipelago (ArcReg). His research focused
on the historical development and cultural significance of Italian film
festivals from the mid-20th century, combining archival investigation with
theoretical approaches from film festival studies and cultural history.