For a recent issue of the journal Cinéma & Cie, Francesco Zucconi discusses Screening Fears:On Protective Media by Francesco Casetti. Click here to learn more about the book. See the button to the left to read the full review. An excerpt appears below:

“Casetti situates cinema and media at the core of the human sciences, engaging media theory with contemporary philosophy… Instead of applying concepts developed elsewhere to the media, Screening Fears contributes to a shift in perspective. Whether in the eighteenth century, the twentieth century, or as a part of more recent developments, screen devices have not simply assumed, on occasion, a protective function with respect to the dangers of reality. On the contrary, they structurally assume that very function… In its capacity to tie the analysis of the past and the diagnosis of our time, Screening Fears has the air of being a contemporary classic.”