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Giorgio Avezzù holds a post-doc position at the Catholic University of Milan,
with a research project on ‘Metadata for audio-visual contents’, funded by
the Strategic Marketing Department of Mediaset. He has written articles in
international journals and volumes about aesthetics and semiotics of film,
narratology and media archaeology. He has co-edited a special issue of Cinergie
on geography, film and visual culture, and has written the book L’evidenza del
mondo. Cinema contemporaneo e angoscia geografica (Diabasis 2017).

Luca Barra is Senior Assistant Professor at Università di Bologna, where he
teaches Radio and Television History and Digital Media, and a former post-
doctoral research fellow at Università Cattolica, Milan. He is the author of the
books Palinsesto (Laterza, Roma-Bari 2015) and Risate in scatola (Vita e Pensiero,
Milan 2012), co-editor of Taboo Comedy (with C. Bucaria, Palgrave, Basingstoke
2015), Backstage (with T. Bonini and S. Splendore, Unicopli, Milan 2015) and
Tutta un’altra fiction (with M. Scaglioni, Carocci, Roma 2013), and has written
essays in various edited volumes and journals. He is an editorial consultant for
Italian TV studies journal Link. Idee per la televisione.

Stefano Baschiera is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen’s University
Belfast. His work on European cinema and film industries has been published
in a variety of edited collections and journals including Film International and
The New Review of Film and Television Studies. Stefano is the co-editor with
Russ Hunter of the book Italian Horror Cinema (EUP) and he was the Principal
Investigator of the AHRC research network project ‘World Cinema On Demand:
Distribution and Education in the Streaming Era’.

Virginia Crisp is Lecturer in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative
Industries at King’s College London. She is the author of Film Distribution
in the Digital Age: Pirates and Professionals (Palgrave, 2015), and co-editor of
Besides the Screen: Moving Images through Distribution, Promotion and Curation
(Palgrave, 2015). She is the co-founder, with Gabriel Menotti Gonring (UFES,
Brazil), of the Besides the Screen Network (www.besidesthescreen.com).

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Francesco Di Chiara is Associate Professor in Film Studies at eCampus University
(Novedrate, Italy). His research interests include (but are not limited to) the
European film industry, Italian film co-productions and Italian genre cinema. Di
Chiara is the author of I tre volti della paura. Il cinema horror italiano 1957-1965
(2009); Generi e industria cinematografica in Italia. Il caso Titanus (1949-1964)
(2013) and Peplum. Il cinema italiano alle prese col mondo antico (2016).

Jan Distelmeyer is Professor for History and Theory of Media in the European
Media Studies program, a co-operative project between the University of
Applied Sciences Potsdam and the University of Potsdam, and a founding
member of the ZeM – Brandenburg Center for Media Studies. His most recent
books include Game Over?! Perspektiven des Computerspiels (Game Over?!
Perspectives on Computer Games, 2008), Raumdeutung. Zur Wiederkehr des
3D-Films (Interpretation of Space. On the Comeback of the 3D-Movie, 2012,)
Das flexible Kino. Ästhetik und Dispositiv der DVD & Blu-ray (The flexible
Cinema. Aesthetics and Dispositif of DVD & Blu-ray, 2012), Katastrophe
und Kapitalismus. Phantasien des Untergangs (Catastrophe and Capitalism.
Phantasies of the Downfall, 2013), Machtzeichen. Anordnungen des Computers
(Signs of Power. Orders by Computers, 2017)

Alberto Micali is Associate Lecturer at University of Lincoln and John Cabot
University, Rome. His main research interest is the politics of digital media and
network dissent. In particular, his research focuses on the social and political
implications of hacking, digital activism and non-representational theories of
media and mediation. His research transversally moves between media theory,
critical posthumanism and political philosophy, intersecting the ecosophical
work of Félix Guattari, and the study of hacktivism. Alberto completed his Ph.D.
in media and cultural studies at the Lincoln School of Film & Media in 2016 with
a thesis that analyzes the micropolitical dimensions of contemporary forms of
digital media interventionism, offering a non-representational investigation of
Anonymous.

Valentina Re is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Link Campus
University of Rome. In 2005 she obtained a PhD in Film and Theatre Studies at
the University of Bologna, where she was subsequently post-doc researcher. From
2009 to 2014, she was assistant professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
Her work on digital piracy and media distribution and consumption has been
published in several journals and edited collections. In 2017 she edited the books
Streaming media. Distribuzione, circolazione, accesso (Mimesis, Milano-Udine) and
Game of Thrones. Una mappa per immaginare mondi (Mimesis, Milano-Udine,
with S. Martin). She is co-editor of the book series ‘Narrazioni seriali’.

Ian Robinson teaches in the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University.
His current research is focused on digital film culture, film and intermediality,

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film festivals and new modes of distribution. He is also working on a project
on film cultures and industries in Canada. His research has been published in
the Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Public: Art, Ideas and Culture as well as
anthologies on film and media culture.

Petr Szczepanik (Charles University, Prague) has written several books on
the history of the Czech film industry. He co-edited Behind the Screen: Inside
European Production Cultures (with Patrick Vonderau, Palgrave, 2013). He was
the leader of an EU-funded FIND project (www.projectfind.cz, 2012-2014),
which utilized student internships for a collective ethnography of production
cultures. In 2015, he was the main author of an industry report on the practices
of screenplay development for the Czech Cinematography Fund. He is currently
working on a study of producer practices in the contemporary Czech audiovisual
industry and an analysis of the impact of the Digital Single Market strategy.




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