Mauro Resmini
Biographic Data
| ID | 4055292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mauro Resmini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mauro |
| FAMILY NAME | Resmini |
| SIGNATURE | RESMINI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Italian Political Cinema
Traditionally, the definition of political cinema assumes a relationship between cinema and politics. In contrast to this view, author Mauro Resmini sees this relationship as an impasse. To illustrate this theory, Resmini turns to Italian cinema to explore how films have reinvented the link between popular art and radical politics in Italy from 1968 to the early 1980s, a period of intense political and cultural struggles also known as the long â …
Il senso dell'intreccio
The essay centres on the transmedia franchise of Romanzo criminale (novel, film and television series) to investigate its fundamental formal and political wager, which is twofold: to provide a mapping of recent Italian history and to imagine collective agency within it. By focusing on aspects of aesthetics, genre, and narrative, the analysis shows how the desire to map a totality (and its impossibility) takes on a different shape in each incarnat…
Reframing the New French Extremity
This article examines a recent tendency in contemporary art cinema—the New French Extremity (NFE)—and focuses specifically on a critique of the scholarly discourse that has flourished around it in recent years. The fundamental argument of this discourse can be summarized as follows: by way of extremity, the new film trend foregrounds sensation, which in its aesthetic immediacy provides the point of access to a more authentic reality. This article…
The Italian Turn
The Italian Turn:A Certain Tendency in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Aesthetics Mauro Resmini (bio) Difference, split, contingency: it is through these all too familiar and thus unheimlich terms that we can conceive of what I will call an Italian turn in psychoanalytic aesthetics. The word "turn," as I will use it here, brings to mind a shift of direction or tendency; this essay will highlight the series of separations that define the contours of t…
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The Italian Turn
The Italian Turn:A Certain Tendency in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Aesthetics Mauro Resmini (bio) Difference, split, contingency: it is through these all too familiar and thus unheimlich terms that we can conceive of what I will call an Italian turn in psychoanalytic aesthetics. The word "turn," as I will use it here, brings to mind a shift of direction or tendency; this essay will highlight the series of separations that define the contours of t…
Reframing the New French Extremity
This article examines a recent tendency in contemporary art cinema—the New French Extremity (NFE)—and focuses specifically on a critique of the scholarly discourse that has flourished around it in recent years. The fundamental argument of this discourse can be summarized as follows: by way of extremity, the new film trend foregrounds sensation, which in its aesthetic immediacy provides the point of access to a more authentic reality. This article…
Il senso dell'intreccio
The essay centres on the transmedia franchise of Romanzo criminale (novel, film and television series) to investigate its fundamental formal and political wager, which is twofold: to provide a mapping of recent Italian history and to imagine collective agency within it. By focusing on aspects of aesthetics, genre, and narrative, the analysis shows how the desire to map a totality (and its impossibility) takes on a different shape in each incarnat…
Italian Political Cinema
Traditionally, the definition of political cinema assumes a relationship between cinema and politics. In contrast to this view, author Mauro Resmini sees this relationship as an impasse. To illustrate this theory, Resmini turns to Italian cinema to explore how films have reinvented the link between popular art and radical politics in Italy from 1968 to the early 1980s, a period of intense political and cultural struggles also known as the long â …
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Italian Literature and Culture (2 works) · Literature (2 works)