Francesco Casetti Receives 2024 Limina Award for Best International Book on Film and Media

Francesco Casetti, Sterling Professor of Humanities and Film & Media Studies in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, received the 2024 Limina Award for Best International Book on Film and Media for his book Screening Fears: On Protective Media (Zone Books and Princeton University Press, 2023).

"It's a recognition given by my colleagues, so in this sense, I'm very proud," said Casetti. "The book raised good interest about the question of protection, so I'm happy that my idea that there is a category of media that are devoted to protection has been awarded."

Casetti was presented with the award on October 3, 2024 by the FilmForum, an international conference organized by the University of Udine and supported by the Italian Scholarly Society for Film and Media.

The editorial board of international Film Studies journal Cinéma&Cie, made up of an international group of film and media scholars, selected Casetti’s book as a “unique and innovative point of reference” for film and media scholars and those seeking to understand how our media environment is being shaped by a “project/protection complex”.

Casetti spoke with Yale News about the book upon its release last year, outlining his argument that screen-based media protect and shelter audiences from fear and exposure in the outside the world.

"Yale has all the opportunity to become a very interesting and very important center for the critical analysis of media,” Casetti added. "I think that we need that; we need that to be visionary in our perception of media."