Luca Barattoni, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, World Cinema
Contact
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies
Office: Daniel 330D
Email: lbaratt@clemson.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Courses
Ecocinema, Global Hollywood, Serious Games (RCID)
Research Interests
Film philosophy, cinema and the Anthropocene, video games and popular industries
Luca Barattoni (Ph.D. University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill) is Associate Professor of World Cinema at Clemson University. Among his publications: The Biopolitical Turn in World Cinema: Visual Landscapes of Social Power, SUNY P, 2026; “Abel Ferrara’s The Funeral: Taking Aim at the Stereotype.” In Fulvio Orsitto and Daniele Fioretti, eds. Italian Americans on Screen. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022; “The Phenomenology of Orphan Black as Molecular Politics.” In Di?dem Sezen, Feride Çiçeko?lu, Asl? Tunç, Ebru Thwaites Diken, eds.Female Agencies and Subjectivities in Film and Television. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020; Jewish Identities in Latin American Cinema. Special Issue for Post-Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, 2019 (with Patricia Nuriel of Wofford College); “Edipo Re e lo statuto del soggetto” in Fulvio Orsitto and Federico Pacchioni, eds. Pier Paolo Pasolini: Prospettive Americane. Pesaro: Metauro, 2015; Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema, Edinburgh UP, 2012; “Bergsonian themes and the human condition in Pirandello’s Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Cinema Operator” Forum Italicum, 2011. He is currently working on a project entitled The Intellect Handbook of Cinema and the Anthropocene with Massimiliano Delfino of Northwestern University.
Selected Professional Works
Books (Published)
Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2013.
Natura, cosmo e città nel primo Majakovskij. Pasian di Prato: Campanotto Editore, 2011.
The Biopolitical Turn in World Cinema: Visual Landscapes of Social Power. New York: SUNY Press, 2026
Books (Edited)
Nuriel, Patricia and Luca Barattoni (eds.): Jewish Identities in Latin American Cinema, a special issue for Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities (2019)
With Massimiliano Delfino. The Intellect Handbook of Cinema and the Anthropocene. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2028.
Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)
“Abel Ferrara’s The Funeral: Taking Aim at the Stereotype.” In Fulvio Orsitto and Daniele Fioretti, eds. Italian Americans on Screen. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
“The Phenomenology of Orphan Black as Molecular Politics.” In Di?dem Sezen, Feride Çiçeko?lu, Asl? Tunç, Ebru Thwaites Diken, eds. Female Agencies and Subjectivities in Film and Television. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Bergsonian themes and the human condition in Pirandello's Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Cinema Operator. Forum Italicum, Vol. 45 No. 1, Spring 2011, 80-99.
On the Phenomenology of (Mis)Representation: Anna As Failed Encounter. In Antonio Vitti, ed. Incontri culturali da oltreoceano. Pesaro: Metauro Edizioni, 2008, 23-39.
Translation of Aleksandr Melichov's novel Ispoved' Evreja in Slavia, 1999-2000.
“Tonino Guerra’s Partnership with Franco Indovina: Bio-egalitarianism and Anarcho-Bakhtinianism.” In Geoffrey M. Lokke, ed. Screen Storytellers: Tonino Guerra. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2026, forthcoming.
