Sara Pesce

Sara Pesce teaches film history, literature and performance. In 2002, she was a Fulbright scholar at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, and in 2001 at Columbia University. In 2004 she was fellow at École Normale Supérieure, Passerelle Des Arts, Paris. She has researched on Hollywood film industry, on cultural memory and digital culture in the contemporary global context; on acting, stardom and celebrity culture; on fashion and costume design for film. She has published books on: Hollywood’s Jewish founders, on World War II cultural memory in Italian Cinema, and on the British actor Laurence Olivier. She is editor of a work on film melodrama, and editor and contributor of a volume on time and promos, trailers, gadgets, grassroots video production, remixes, forums, archives, and gaming (The Politics of Ephemeral Digital Media). She has been curator of a series of public interviews with major Italian actors, held in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna. She is co-founder of the Italian Research Network on celebrity culture, an approach the topic of celebrity from an interdisciplinary point of view.