About the Author

Elisa Bricco is Director of the Department of Modern Languages and Culture at the University of Genova. Her studies specialize in the French novel, theatre and poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries. Over the past two decades she has researched the narrative and paratexual strategies of the French novel; the relationship between contemporary writing and the postmodern paradigm; the place and the role of the author in contemporary society; the role of art in literature and cross-media creative dynamics. Luca Malavasi is Associate Professor at the University of Genova, where he teaches Film History, Film Criticism and Visual Culture. His interests focus on the theory of images and the history of contemporary cinema. He has a series of essays and monographs on postmodernity, postmodern movies and their directors. He is part of the editorial committee of the journals "La Valle dell'Eden" and "Cineforum".