Marco Bellano

Marco Bellano, PhD, teaches the History of Animation at the University of Padua, Italy. He previously taught History of Italian Cinema at the Boston University Study Abroad Padua and History of Popular Music at the Conservatory of Ferrara. Several times he has been guest teacher in Film Music at the University of Salamanca, Spain. He graduated from the Conservatory of Vicenza in Piano and Orchestral Conducting.

In 2014, the SAS-Society for Animation Studies assigned him the Norman McLaren-Evelyn Lambart Award for the Best Scholarly Article. In 2014, he organized and chaired "Il cinema d’animazione e l’Italia" (Padua, 2014), the first ever Italian academic conference on animation, co-funded by the SAS. He was Chair of the 29th SAS Annual Conference (Padua, 2017).

He is associate editor of the cinema journal Cabiria and member of the scientific board of Popular Music Research Today (University of Salamanca) and of the Mutual Images Journal. He is currently part of an Erasmus+ research project on the use of European popular songs in music education, led by the University of Salamanca. He collaborates with many orchestras and cultural institutions, including the Palazzetto Bru Zane in Venice.

He wrote the books Allegro non Troppo: Bruno Bozzetto’s Animated Music (Bloomsbury, 2021), 24 fotogrammi per una storia dell'animazione essenziale ma esaustiva (Dino Audino, 2021), Václav Trojan: Music Composition in Czech Animated Films (2019), Animazione in cento film (2013, with Giovanni Ricci and Marco Vanelli) and Metapartiture. Comporre musica per i film muti (2007). He co-edited (with Giannalberto Bendazzi) the final Animation Journal issue, on Italian animation (2017). In 2020, he contributed to the Wiley Companion to Federico Fellini with a chapter on the graphic heritage of the director, in occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth.