Francesco Casetti (born April 2, 1947) is an Italian naturalized US citizen film and television theorist.
He is Sterling Professor of Humanities and Film and Media Studies at Yale University.
[2] In 1970 Casetti earned an MA at the Catholic University of Milan, where in 1974 he also received an "advanced degree" in Film and Communication Studies.
In 2000 he was awarded with the Chair of Italian Culture for a distinguished scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (2000).
He got fellowships at the Otago University (Summer 2011), at the Bauhaus University-Weimar (Summer 2012), and at the Freie Universität Berlin (Fall 2019 and Spring 2023).