Texas, 1999), and eye occhio of the century: film, experience, modernity ( columbia, ). francesco casetti is a professor at yale university and the author of inside the gaze: the fiction film and its spectator ( indiana, 1999), theories of cinema, 1945– 1995 ( u. casetti ethe dual expansion method: an application for evaluating the effects of population growth on development. a tour de force l occhio del novecento casetti pdf of media theory. casetti reaches far back into media history, connecting the three dispositifs organizing our sense of threat and defense intrinsic to modern experience — the phantasmagoria, cinema, and electronic bubbles — that manage our fear but indulge our brush with perils. ieee transact syst man cybern, smc: 29– 39. he is the author of inside the gaze. casetti currently serves as the director of graduate studies in film and media studies and served as program chair from to. the fiction film and its spectator ( indiana up, 1999), theories of cinema, texas up, 1999), eye of the century: film, experience, modernity ( columbia, ), and the lumière galaxy: seven key words for the cinema to come ( columbia, ). crossref google scholar casetti ethe onset and spread of modern economic growth in europe: an empirical test of pdf a catastrophe model. his contributions to university committees have been substantial: he is currently a member of the humanities doctoral education advisory working group, and previously novecento served on the humanities strategic committee. in the book, casetti challenges long- standing theories of screen- based media as being “ expansive” for users — what the canadian media theorist marshall mcluhan famously termed “ an extension of man” — and instead argues that they effectively shelter and protect us from exposure to the world. in so doing, they allow us to reconnect. francesco casetti is sterling professor of humanities and film and media studies at yale.