Polysemy of Drama. The Representation of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Susanna Bandi obtained a master’s degree in Scriptures and projects for the performing and visual arts (2020/2021) with the thesis Expanded cinema: a journey through the spatiality of film vision. Since 2021 Susanna is PhD student in Literary and Musical Text Sciences at the University of Pavia, with a project in the Innovation area (PON Research and Innovation) entitled Technologies for Autism. She is currently a subject scholar for the Bachelor of Arts courses (class L-10) related to SSD L-ART/06 (Cinema, photography and television). 

Federica Villa is full professor of History and Criticism of Cinema at the University of Pavia. Her research interests revolve around Italian post-war cinema, with particular attention to the relationship between cinema and popular culture; the ways of the script-writings and the contribution of some writers to film work. She currently directs the research centre Self Media Lab. (Department of Humanities of the University of Pavia), interested in studying the shapes and autobiographical and self-portraits phenomena between photography, film and new media. Among her publications Vite impersonali. Autoritrattistica e medialità, 2012; Tracciati autobiografici tra cinema, arte e media, 2016; “Self Media Studies. L’immagine di Sé dal social networking ai big data”, 2019.