Pietro Bianchi
Assistant Professor
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Pietro Bianchi‘s research examines the historical transformations of the visual at the intersection of psychoanalysis, critical theory, and film and media studies. His work investigates how images function as symptomatic sites where social, political, and subjective contradictions become visible, with particular attention to cinema as a privileged medium through which these transformations can be observed.
His first monograph, Jacques Lacan and Cinema: Imaginary, Gaze, Formalisation (Routledge, 2017), reconsiders the encounter between Lacanian psychoanalysis and film theory through a reexamination of the concept of the gaze. His second monograph, The Restlessness of the Imaginary: Ethics of the Gaze (Orthotes, 2025), develops a psychoanalytic approach to cinema centered on the symptomatic dimension of the visual field and the ethical implications of the gaze.
He has published widely on psychoanalysis, critical theory, aesthetics, film history, and visual culture. Alongside his academic work, he writes regularly on contemporary cinema for e-flux, Cineforum, FilmTv, Doppiozero and Teiko.