Biomedical Imaging and Rhetoric of Diagnosis in Medical Dramas and Docuseries

Alice Cati is associate professor at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan), where she teaches Languages and Semiotics of Media Products and Audiovisual Languages. Her research areas concern film theory, memory studies, documentary, with a particular focus on self-representation, and transcultural trauma. Her recent publications include the Cinergie special issue, The Migrant as an Eye/I. Transculturality, Self-representation, Audiovisual Practices (with M. Grassilli, 2019); “The Vulnerable Gaze of the Migrant” (Alphaville 2019), “From Genealogy to Genetic Memory” (Comunicazioni Sociali 2020). She co-edited The Representation and Care of Illness with Silvia Casini and Deborah Toschi (Cinéma & Cie., 39, 2022).

Deborah Toschi is associate professor at the University of Insubria (Como). She graduated and earned a PhD at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan), then became a researcher at Pavia University, where she is a member of the Self Media Lab. Writings, Performance and Technologies of the Self. Her main research fields are Italian cinema, gender studies and science and medicine’s visual culture, such as the recent monographic special number The Representation and Care of Illness. Visual Culture, Trauma and Medical Humanities (Cinéma&Cie, 39, 2022) co-edited with Silvia Casini and Alice Cati.