Clodagh Brook
Biographic Data
| ID | 5767204 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clodagh Brook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clodagh |
| FAMILY NAME | Brook |
| SIGNATURE | BROOK C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8399-401X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rome as a Postsecular City
Postsecular Cinema and Television
This article takes as case studies the romantic comedy Bangla (2019), as well as the RaiTV series of the same name (2021), both directed by Phaim Bhuiyan, a young, second-generation Muslim Bangladeshi, living in Rome. Both film and the subsequent series use religion (Islam) to construct narratives about how multiculturalism and religion in Italy coexist and are subject to societal and personal tensions. Together, they enable a perspective to emer…
Postsecular Italy
Religion has not been displaced by the long process of secularization. Rather, as Clodagh Brook and others have argued, it has become one of the most visible and complex fault lines of the twenty-first century. Today, religious and secular discourses are entangled with each other inside a public sphere in which secular voices mingle and clash with voices from multiple faiths. This entanglement is now a significant aspect of contemporary Italian c…
Screening Religions in Italy
This is the first book-length study to address the question of religion in contemporary Italian cinema and television. It questions why religion persists on Italian screens and how this reflects and constructs Italy’s emerging post-secularity.
Open Works
Italian Studies
Our article maps the increasing prominence of interartistic and intermedial methodologies in modern and contemporary Italy, and advocates the advantages of an interdisciplinary approach for Italian Studies. We map some current trends in cultural, visual and comparative studies and explore the influence of these fields on the development of Italian Studies. We suggest that the future of our discipline is best understood in terms of an ‘interdiscip…
Post-secular identity in contemporary Italian cinema
Alessandro Ferrari claims that Catholicism was the only cement binding the newly unified Italy together, a country without a common language or a widespread culture capable of founding civic engagement. Taking a post-secular perspective on religion, which recognizes that religion is not simply a ‘residue’ soon to be extinguished (as Raymond Williams once stated), this article will explore Italian cinema’s contemporary constructions of this nation…
The Spectacle of the Unseen
What is intriguing about Bellocchio's films is not so much their manifest attack on Catholicism across five decades of filmmaking but — reading against the surface of the films — the peculiar and continuing lure of the church. Focusing on Bellocchio's recent cinema (L'ora di religione and Il regista di matrimoni, especially), the article explores the transcending of the real, through the unseen and unsaid, at one end of the spectrum, and spectacl…
Marco Bellocchio
Including work on psychoanalysis, politics, film production, autobiography, and the relationship between film tradition and contemporary culture, Marco Bellocchio touches on fundamental issues in film analysis.
Beyond dialogue
(2008). Beyond dialogue: Speech-silence, the monologue, and power in the films of Ermanno Olmi. The Italianist: Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 268-280
Borderlines
This article explores the treatment of dream and reality in Federico Fellini's 81⁄2 (1963) and Nanni Moretti's Sogni d'oro (1981), exploring in particular the way boundaries between the states are drawn and disrupted, and the implications this disruption has for the structure of the films and for their creation of meaning. The article's approach owes more to semiotics and to recent cognitive/experimental accounts of dreaming than it does to Freud…
The hallucinating eye
The hallucinating eye
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Postsecular Cinema and Television
This article takes as case studies the romantic comedy Bangla (2019), as well as the RaiTV series of the same name (2021), both directed by Phaim Bhuiyan, a young, second-generation Muslim Bangladeshi, living in Rome. Both film and the subsequent series use religion (Islam) to construct narratives about how multiculturalism and religion in Italy coexist and are subject to societal and personal tensions. Together, they enable a perspective to emer…
Postsecular Italy
Religion has not been displaced by the long process of secularization. Rather, as Clodagh Brook and others have argued, it has become one of the most visible and complex fault lines of the twenty-first century. Today, religious and secular discourses are entangled with each other inside a public sphere in which secular voices mingle and clash with voices from multiple faiths. This entanglement is now a significant aspect of contemporary Italian c…
Beyond dialogue
(2008). Beyond dialogue: Speech-silence, the monologue, and power in the films of Ermanno Olmi. The Italianist: Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 268-280
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giuseppe Ungaretti
The hallucinating eye
The hallucinating eye
Borderlines
This article explores the treatment of dream and reality in Federico Fellini's 81⁄2 (1963) and Nanni Moretti's Sogni d'oro (1981), exploring in particular the way boundaries between the states are drawn and disrupted, and the implications this disruption has for the structure of the films and for their creation of meaning. The article's approach owes more to semiotics and to recent cognitive/experimental accounts of dreaming than it does to Freud…
Beyond dialogue
(2008). Beyond dialogue: Speech-silence, the monologue, and power in the films of Ermanno Olmi. The Italianist: Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 268-280
Marco Bellocchio
Including work on psychoanalysis, politics, film production, autobiography, and the relationship between film tradition and contemporary culture, Marco Bellocchio touches on fundamental issues in film analysis.
The Spectacle of the Unseen
What is intriguing about Bellocchio's films is not so much their manifest attack on Catholicism across five decades of filmmaking but — reading against the surface of the films — the peculiar and continuing lure of the church. Focusing on Bellocchio's recent cinema (L'ora di religione and Il regista di matrimoni, especially), the article explores the transcending of the real, through the unseen and unsaid, at one end of the spectrum, and spectacl…
Italian Studies
Our article maps the increasing prominence of interartistic and intermedial methodologies in modern and contemporary Italy, and advocates the advantages of an interdisciplinary approach for Italian Studies. We map some current trends in cultural, visual and comparative studies and explore the influence of these fields on the development of Italian Studies. We suggest that the future of our discipline is best understood in terms of an ‘interdiscip…
Post-secular identity in contemporary Italian cinema
Alessandro Ferrari claims that Catholicism was the only cement binding the newly unified Italy together, a country without a common language or a widespread culture capable of founding civic engagement. Taking a post-secular perspective on religion, which recognizes that religion is not simply a ‘residue’ soon to be extinguished (as Raymond Williams once stated), this article will explore Italian cinema’s contemporary constructions of this nation…
Screening Religions in Italy
This is the first book-length study to address the question of religion in contemporary Italian cinema and television. It questions why religion persists on Italian screens and how this reflects and constructs Italy’s emerging post-secularity.
Open Works
Postsecular Cinema and Television
This article takes as case studies the romantic comedy Bangla (2019), as well as the RaiTV series of the same name (2021), both directed by Phaim Bhuiyan, a young, second-generation Muslim Bangladeshi, living in Rome. Both film and the subsequent series use religion (Islam) to construct narratives about how multiculturalism and religion in Italy coexist and are subject to societal and personal tensions. Together, they enable a perspective to emer…
Postsecular Italy
Religion has not been displaced by the long process of secularization. Rather, as Clodagh Brook and others have argued, it has become one of the most visible and complex fault lines of the twenty-first century. Today, religious and secular discourses are entangled with each other inside a public sphere in which secular voices mingle and clash with voices from multiple faiths. This entanglement is now a significant aspect of contemporary Italian c…
Rome as a Postsecular City
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