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Michele Guerra

I was born in 1982 and I am an Associate Professor of Cinema at the University of Parma (Italy). I am the author of "Il meccanismo indifferente. La concezione della Storia nel cinema di Stanley Kubrick" (Roma, 2007), "Gli ultimi fuochi. Cinema italiano e mondo contadino dal fascismo agli anni Settanta" (Roma, 2010), and "Lo schermo empatico. Cinema e neuroscienze (2015, with Vittorio Gallese). Also I edited "Sequenze. Quaderni di cinema 1949-1951" (2009), "Le immagini tradotte. Usi Passaggi Trasformazioni" (2011, with a Preface by Linda Hutcheon), and "Invenzioni dal vero. Discorsi sul neorealismo". Recently I’ve been the curator of the Italian edition of Victor O. Freeburg’s “The Art of Photoplay Making” and of Torben Grodal’s “Embodied Visions”. In 2011 I've been the recipient of a fellowship from the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University on "Cognitive Science and Neuroscience for the Humanities”. I am an Associate Editor of “Fata Morgana” and the editor of the film and communication series “Pandora” (Diabasis Editore).
30Apr

Cfp “Consciousness”

by Michele Guerra in Forum | 0 Comment
Dear all, Please find below the link to the Cfp of the Italian film journal “Fata Morgana” (as you enter the website, click on “Preview”). The new issue will be […]
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06Jul

Neurofilmology

by Michele Guerra in Forum | 0 Comment
Dear members, at the link below you find the table of contents and the abstracts from the last issue of Cinéma & Cie. International Film Studies Journal, edited by A. D’Aloia and […]
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17Jul

EEG Experiment on Camera Movements

by Michele Guerra in Forum | 0 Comment
Dear members, you can find at the link below our paper “Moving Mirrors: A High-Density EEG Study Investigating the Effect of Camera Movements on Motor Cortex Activation during Action Observation” […]
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13Jul

Film style: a motor approach

by Michele Guerra in Forum | 0 Comment
“How can cinema have so powerful a reality effect when it is so manifestly unreal?” Vittorio Gallese and I have started from this very simple assumption by Steven Shaviro to […]
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