Francesco Casetti

Francesco Casetti (born April 2, 1947) is an Italian naturalized US citizen film and television theorist. He is Sterling Professor of Humanities and Film and Media Studies at Yale University. He has been described as "the best analyst of cinematographic enunciation".

Biography
In 1970 Casetti earned an MA at the Catholic University of Milan, where in 1974 he also received an "advanced degree" in Film and Communication Studies. His positions include Assistant Professor at the University of Genova (1974–1980), Associate Professor at Catholic University of Milan (1984–1994), Full Professor at the University of Trieste (1994–1998) and then at Catholic University of Milan, where he served also as the Chair of the Department in Communication and Performing Arts.

He taught as an associate professor at University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle (1977) and as visiting professor at the University of Iowa (1988, 1991 and 1998) and at the Harvard University. In 2000 he was awarded with the Chair of Italian Culture for a distinguished scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (2000). He got fellowships at the Otago University (Summer 2011), at the Bauhaus University-Weimar (Summer 2012), and at the Freie Universtität Berlin (Fall 2019 and Spring 2023).