Andrea Gelardi, Ph.D.
Main Focus
- 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)
Research Project
Moving Images, Shifting Cities: Cinema and Urban Spaces in Postwar Italy (1950-1968)
Curriculum Vitae
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.