Angela Dalle Vacche's scholarly work delves into the representation of history in cinema, focusing on Italian women, early film, and the interplay of media and color. Her analyses explore film as a form of art within broader contexts, examining its relationship with museums and new media. She also investigates themes of defiance and passion in early cinema and is currently developing research on African cinema.
By arguing that this dissident Catholic's worldview is anti-anthropocentric, Angela Dalle Vacche concludes that Andre Bazin's idea of the cinema recapitulates the histories of biological evolution and modern technology inside our consciousness, unsettling our routines in productive ways and expanding our sense of belonging to a much larger picture.