Author Daniele Rugo

An island is always an uncomfortable entity, for there the struggle between earth and water is simply contained, never entirely over. In one of many reflections on territorial matters Gilles Deleuze writes ‘tha...

In the interview that opens the volume of Alain Badiou’s contributions to the philosophical exploration of cinema, the philosopher says “the cinema has always been the subject of everyday conversations and that...

In the midst of one of his conversations with fellow director Giuseppe Tornatore, Francesco Rosi interrupts his own argument and says: ‘You should have called this book A life, because it is a life I am narrati...

Cinephilia – the very specific love inspired by cinema – has been repeatedly declared deceased. However, whether one takes cinephilia as a historical phenomenon now outshined, or asserts that the magic power of...