Francesco Casetti is Sterling Professor of Humanities and Film and Media Studies at Yale. He has previously taught in Italy where he served as President of the scholarly society of Film and Media Studies. Visiting professor at Paris 3 La Sorbonne Nouvelle, at the University of Iowa, and at Harvard; fellowships at the Otago University, at the Bauhaus University-Weimar, and at Freie Universtität Berlin; awarded with the "Chair of Italian Culture" for a distinguished scholar at Berkeley. Among his books there are Inside the Gaze, Theories of Cinema, 1945-1995, Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity, and The Lumière Galaxy. Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come, a study on the reconfiguration of cinema in a post-medium epoch.