Biography

Alessandra Raengo received her Ph.D in Cinema Studies from New York University. Her research focuses on the visuality of race in American popular and visual culture within an intertextual, intermediatic, and interdisciplinary perspective. Her main areas of interest include Critical Theory, African-American Film and Visual Culture, Critical Race Theory, Post-Colonial Theory, Vernacular Theory, Marxist theory, and Semiotics.

She has co-edited (with Leonardo Quaresima and Laura Vichi) two multilingual volumes of Conference Proceedings of the Udine International Film Studies Conference (Italy) on The Birth of Film Genres and The Bounds of Representation; two volumes (with Robert Stam) on film adaptation from literary sources (Literature and Film, A Companion to Literature and Film) published by Blackwell; among the many scholarly translations she has also translated and curated the Italian edition of Robert Stam, Robert Burgoyne and Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics. Her essays, mostly concerning filmic representations of the epidermal signifier of race, appear in international volumes such Film’s Thresholds (Udine, Italy: Forum, 2004), and The Ages of The Cinema. Criteria and Models for the Construction of Historical Periods (Udine, Italy: Forum, 2008).

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