Biography

Angelo Restivo (Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1997) is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Ph.D. program’s track in Moving Image Studies and the M.A. program track in Film, Video and Digital Imaging. His degree work at USC focused on Critical Studies in the Cinema-TV School there. Restivo’s book, The Cinema of Economic Miracles: Visuality and Modernization in the Italian Art Film (Duke 2002), examines how the cinema (and more generally, visual culture) articulates the relationship between economic modernization and the transformation of national space. His continuing work on European cinema is the subject of his next major book project. He also has research interests in emerging developments in film theory, as his guest edited volume of Spectator on “The New Psychoanalysis” demonstrates. Restivo’s work has recently explored images of the body, time and space as they are enacted in pornography (e.g., several of his co-authored essays with R. Cante have recently been published in books on the topic, including in Linda Williams, ed., Porn Studies [Duke 2004], and in Pamela Church Gibson, ed., More Dirty Looks [BFI 2004]). Restivo has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Rome, Italy and a National Endowment of the Arts/American Film Institute Fellowship in film production. He blends a knowledge gained from hands-on productions in film with theories of film and culture to produce intriguing insights into moving image studies. Research Areas: Film theory; European cinema; Cultural studies; Critical theory. Degree Track Affiliations: Ph.D. (Moving Image Studies), M.A. (Film/Video). Core Graduate Seminars Regularly Taught: Style and Narrative Analysis; Advanced Film Theory; International Cinemas; Special Topics.