Francesco Zucconi is Assistant Professor in Film, Media, and Visual Culture Theory and Practices at the IUAV University of Venice, Membre associé at the Centre d’Histoire et de Théorie des Arts, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and Fellow at the Institut des Migrations in Paris. He has been a Lauro de Bosis Fellow at Harvard, and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the EHESS. He has written a number of books and articles on the theory of cinema, image theory and visual culture