Valentina Re

Valentina Re is a full professor at the Department of Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, where she teaches Film History and Italian Cinema. Her research focuses on media and literary theory, production and distribution studies, film and television industry, streaming media, cultural diversity and gender equality. She is experienced in the implementation of complex research projects supported by national and international funding bodies, including the EU-funded projects DETECt (2018-2021) and GEMINI (2023-2025). From 2022 to 2025 she was the PI of the project The Atlas of Italian ‘Giallo’: Media History and Popular Culture (1954-2020), funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research. Her work has appeared in journals including The Italianist, Necsus, View, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, Journal of European Popular Culture. Among her recent publications are the books Che cos’è Netflix (2026); Peripheral Locations in European TV Crime Series (2024, coauthored with K. T. Hansen); and Le belle donne ci piacciono. E come! “Cinema nuovo”, cultura comunista e modelli di mascolinità (1952-1958) (2021, co-authored with Elisa Mandelli).