Adjunct professor of English Language, Culture and Literature at the Department of Civilization and Forms of Knowledge of the University of Pisa, as a cultural journalist and essayist he has covered for over 30 years the fields of cinema, animation and comic art on Italian national press and international websites. Director of DOCartoon, international festival of animated documentary and non-fiction comics, in Pietrasanta, Italy (2011-2014). Curator and consultant, among others he
has coordinated the short films and animation sections of the EuropaCinema international film festival in Viareggio, Italy. He has held for three years the seminar of animated cinema at the University of Pisa, where he has also achieved a PhD in Visual and Perfoming Arts discussing his research on animated documentary.
At the University of Udine he has researched in audiovisual studies, exploring into drawn animation, graphic essays and documentary. In recent years he has given papers and lectured on animation, moving pictures and graphic novels at
international academic conferences organized by universities such as Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle, University of Edinburgh, University of Applied Arts of Vienna and Udine (Film Forum).
He is author of the book Il documentario animato (The animated documentary, Tunué ed., Rome, 2012).
Published articles and volumes (selection):
MARTINELLI LAWRENCE THOMAS. (2009). Jump Cutting through Comics and Films.
Cinema and comics. Affinities, differences and new forms of interference. March 3-6, 2008. (pp. 161-174). ISBN/ISSN: 978-88-8420-542-1. UDINE: Forum (ITALY). XV INTERNATIONAL FILM STUDIES CONFERENCE.
MARTINELLI LAWRENCE THOMAS (2010). From Still images to accelerated animation: Fast Film and other quick short movies. In: Cinéma & Art Contemporain 2. PARIS, June 28 –July 11, 2009,
MARTINELLI LAWRENCE THOMAS. The drawing of reality, truth and artifice of comics and animated cinema. In: Cinema and Contemporary Visual Arts, IV (A)Live! Performance, Re-Enactment, Animation, Simulation. GORIZIA, March 26-31, 2009.
MARTINELLI LAWRENCE THOMAS. Animated Documentaries and Child Migration. Real Interviews and Concealed References in the Works of Heilborn and Aronowitsch. In: Cinéma & Art Contemporain 3. PARIS, June 28 –July 10, 2010, Campanotto
Editore, Paris-Udine 2010.
MARTINELLI LAWRENCE THOMAS (2009). “Luzzati e Gianini. Conversazione sul cinema d’animazione” in Lele Luzzati atto III. Un mondo di fiaba, Edizioni ETS, Pisa, 2009, pp.33-35, ISBN 978-884672541-7
MARTINELLI THOMAS (2007). Crocevia Europa-Dialoghi sul cinema con registi e attori.
MASSAROSA (LU): Giovane Holden Edizioni, pp. 1-144, ISBN: 978-88-95214-09-2
