Introduction: From Séance to Screen: Media, Ghosts, and the Spectral Imagination

Authors

• Massimo Fusillo Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa

  Massimo Fusillo is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. He is President of the Italian Association of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature; chair of the Research Committee on Literatures Arts Media of the International Association of Comparative Literature; and member of the Academia Europaea. Among his recent publications: Empatia negativa (with Stefano Ercolino) (Bompiani, 2022); Video Art Facing Wagner, in M. Fusillo, M. Grishakova (eds.), The Gesamtkunstwerk as a Synergy of the Arts (Peter Lang, 2021); L’immaginario polimorfico (Pellegrini, 2018); The Fetish. Literature, cinema, visuality (Bloomsbury, 2017).

• Mirko Lino University of L’Aquila

  Mirko Lino is Associate Professor in Cinema, Photography, Radio, Television and Digital Media (PEMM-01/B) at the University of L’Aquila, where he teaches History of Cinema and Cinema and Media. He also teaches at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in L’Aquila. He is a member of the Osservatorio sul cinema e sugli audiovisivi in Abruzzo (CineAb Observatory). His publications include the monograph L’apocalisse postmoderna tra letteratura e cinema. Catastrofi, oggetti, metropoli, corpi (Le Lettere, 2014). He has co-edited several volumes, including Imaginary Films in Literature (Brill-Rodopi, 2016), Sex(t)ualities. Morfologie del corpo tra visioni e narrazioni (Mimesis, 2018), Lo specchio senza fine. L’autorialità fra letteratura, cinema e teatro (Carocci, 2023), and Vampiri nel tempo. Letteratura, cinema, televisione, musica (Dots, 2024).