Luca Malavasi is associate professor at the University of Genoa, where he teaches Film History and Visual Culture. He mainly deals with the theory of image and history of contemporary cinema; he wrote many essays — and a book — about postmodernity and postmodern movies and directors. Among his books: Mulholland Drive (2008); Realismo e tecnologia. Caratteri del cinema contemporaneo (2013); Il cinema. Percorsi storici e questioni teoriche (with G. Carluccio and F. Villa, 2015); Postmoderno e cinema (2017); Il linguaggio del cinema (2019).