Laura Rascaroli
Biographic Data
| ID | 5935842 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Rascaroli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Rascaroli |
| SIGNATURE | RASCAROLI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Cork |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2165-8253 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sonic modernities
Oculocentric perspectives are often dominant in descriptions of the city essay film. Whether flâneurial, observational, lyrical or visionary, the gaze is often placed at the centre of the filmic perception of the city, which is itself conceived of as a sight, image, or palimpsest. In this article, I reflect on the centrality of noise to modernity, and of capitalism to urban sound. In doing so, I pursue a dual goal: to foreground a sound-based und…
Lost and Beautiful or the (Environmental) Ethics of the Lyric Essay Film
This article contributes to a theory of the lyric essay film by bringing studies of the essay film and lyricism to bear on Pietro Marcello’s Lost and Beautiful (2015). We argue that the lyric essay film delivers its argument by leveraging the tension between words and images, narrative and counter-narrative components, and the (non)human subjectivities (i.e. the director’s, characters’ and camera’s) its text embodies and enacts. These tensions ge…
For a cosmopolitan cinema
The recent cosmopolitan turn in film studies has coincided with the emergence of a new set of valuable theoretical perspectives. Compared to other disciplines across the humanities and social sciences, cinema has been relatively slow to adopt cosmopolitanism as a critical tool. Dimitris Eleftheriotis suggests that this delay is paradoxically due to the self-evident nature of cinema as a cosmopolitan medium, as films and cinematic culture offer pr…
How the Essay Film Thinks
Less than a decade ago the expression "essay film" was still encountered only sporadically; today, the term has been widely integrated into film criticism, and is increasingly adopted by filmmakers and artists worldwide to characterize their work-while continuing to offer a precious margin of resistance to closed definitions. Eschewing essentialist notions of genre and form, and bringing issues of practice and praxis to the fore, this book offers…
Narration
This chapter reappraises the connections between narration and argumentation. It contests the claim that narrative is merely a fictional layer superimposed on the nonfictional content (and, by extension, the true essence) of the essay film. The work examined in this chapter explores some of the ways in which narration can give expression to argumentation. The essay form is inherently fragile, with a particular potential for disassemblage. The cha…
Still Drifting? Expanded Situationism and Filmic Dérive
Ideas connected to the sphere of expanded cinema are here mobilised to identify the aesthetics and ideology of the use of a technology that is no longer filmic, but that derives from it, while having never been a cinematic genre or form in itself. Expanded cinema’s emphasis on participation, on performance and on an adapted experience of space and time are equally useful to an understanding of the contemporary phenomenon of post-situationist déri…
Brutal Vision
Set in postwar Berlin and telling the story of Edmund Koehler – a damaged German child who, under the influence of Nazi ideology, commits first patricide and then suicide – Roberto Rossellini's Germany Year Zero (1948) opens with a long documentary-like prologue. A series of shaky travelling shots from a vehicle in motion takes us through heaps of rubble and semi-destroyed buildings, revealing devastation on a massive, incomprehensible scale. The…
Becoming-minor in a sustainable Europe
In today's Europe, the cosmopolitanism and openness to the world the that are at the basis of the project of art cinema are linked to profound anxieties, as a result of the marginalization of the old continent on the global stage, and of an economic recession that generates grave doubts about the sustainability of the post-1989 supranational project. The concomitant loss of identity and centrality of European art film, once a major cinematic form…
Antonioni
Cinematic Journeys
Journal Article Cinematic Journeys: Film and Movement Get access Dimitris Eleftheriotis, Cinematic Journeys: Film and Movement. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010, 224 pp. Laura Rascaroli Laura Rascaroli [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 52, Issue 2, Summer 2011, Pages 293–297, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjr010 Published: 01 July 2011
Remapping the Neorealist Nation
Based on the hypothesis that realism in narrative cinema is the result of a set of rhetorical strategies that operate at the indexical, representational, communicative and social levels, and at the same time merging a poststructuralist and a cultural studies methodology, this essay compares three post-war films which share the ambition of embracing the entire peninsula: Roberto Rossellini's Paisà (1946), Pietro Francisci's Natale al Campo 119 (19…
Steel in the gaze
Journal Article Steel in the gaze: on POV and the discourse of vision in Kathryn Bigelow's cinema Get access Laura Rascaroli Laura Rascaroli Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 38, Issue 3, Autumn 1997, Pages 232–241, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/38.3.232 Published: 01 October 1997
Becoming-minor in a sustainable Europe
In today's Europe, the cosmopolitanism and openness to the world the that are at the basis of the project of art cinema are linked to profound anxieties, as a result of the marginalization of the old continent on the global stage, and of an economic recession that generates grave doubts about the sustainability of the post-1989 supranational project. The concomitant loss of identity and centrality of European art film, once a major cinematic form…
Brutal Vision
Set in postwar Berlin and telling the story of Edmund Koehler – a damaged German child who, under the influence of Nazi ideology, commits first patricide and then suicide – Roberto Rossellini's Germany Year Zero (1948) opens with a long documentary-like prologue. A series of shaky travelling shots from a vehicle in motion takes us through heaps of rubble and semi-destroyed buildings, revealing devastation on a massive, incomprehensible scale. The…
Steel in the gaze
Journal Article Steel in the gaze: on POV and the discourse of vision in Kathryn Bigelow's cinema Get access Laura Rascaroli Laura Rascaroli Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 38, Issue 3, Autumn 1997, Pages 232–241, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/38.3.232 Published: 01 October 1997
Steel in the gaze
Journal Article Steel in the gaze: on POV and the discourse of vision in Kathryn Bigelow's cinema Get access Laura Rascaroli Laura Rascaroli Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 38, Issue 3, Autumn 1997, Pages 232–241, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/38.3.232 Published: 01 October 1997
Remapping the Neorealist Nation
Based on the hypothesis that realism in narrative cinema is the result of a set of rhetorical strategies that operate at the indexical, representational, communicative and social levels, and at the same time merging a poststructuralist and a cultural studies methodology, this essay compares three post-war films which share the ambition of embracing the entire peninsula: Roberto Rossellini's Paisà (1946), Pietro Francisci's Natale al Campo 119 (19…
Antonioni
Cinematic Journeys
Journal Article Cinematic Journeys: Film and Movement Get access Dimitris Eleftheriotis, Cinematic Journeys: Film and Movement. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010, 224 pp. Laura Rascaroli Laura Rascaroli [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 52, Issue 2, Summer 2011, Pages 293–297, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjr010 Published: 01 July 2011
Brutal Vision
Set in postwar Berlin and telling the story of Edmund Koehler – a damaged German child who, under the influence of Nazi ideology, commits first patricide and then suicide – Roberto Rossellini's Germany Year Zero (1948) opens with a long documentary-like prologue. A series of shaky travelling shots from a vehicle in motion takes us through heaps of rubble and semi-destroyed buildings, revealing devastation on a massive, incomprehensible scale. The…
Becoming-minor in a sustainable Europe
In today's Europe, the cosmopolitanism and openness to the world the that are at the basis of the project of art cinema are linked to profound anxieties, as a result of the marginalization of the old continent on the global stage, and of an economic recession that generates grave doubts about the sustainability of the post-1989 supranational project. The concomitant loss of identity and centrality of European art film, once a major cinematic form…
Still Drifting? Expanded Situationism and Filmic Dérive
Ideas connected to the sphere of expanded cinema are here mobilised to identify the aesthetics and ideology of the use of a technology that is no longer filmic, but that derives from it, while having never been a cinematic genre or form in itself. Expanded cinema’s emphasis on participation, on performance and on an adapted experience of space and time are equally useful to an understanding of the contemporary phenomenon of post-situationist déri…
How the Essay Film Thinks
Less than a decade ago the expression "essay film" was still encountered only sporadically; today, the term has been widely integrated into film criticism, and is increasingly adopted by filmmakers and artists worldwide to characterize their work-while continuing to offer a precious margin of resistance to closed definitions. Eschewing essentialist notions of genre and form, and bringing issues of practice and praxis to the fore, this book offers…
Narration
This chapter reappraises the connections between narration and argumentation. It contests the claim that narrative is merely a fictional layer superimposed on the nonfictional content (and, by extension, the true essence) of the essay film. The work examined in this chapter explores some of the ways in which narration can give expression to argumentation. The essay form is inherently fragile, with a particular potential for disassemblage. The cha…
For a cosmopolitan cinema
The recent cosmopolitan turn in film studies has coincided with the emergence of a new set of valuable theoretical perspectives. Compared to other disciplines across the humanities and social sciences, cinema has been relatively slow to adopt cosmopolitanism as a critical tool. Dimitris Eleftheriotis suggests that this delay is paradoxically due to the self-evident nature of cinema as a cosmopolitan medium, as films and cinematic culture offer pr…
Sonic modernities
Oculocentric perspectives are often dominant in descriptions of the city essay film. Whether flâneurial, observational, lyrical or visionary, the gaze is often placed at the centre of the filmic perception of the city, which is itself conceived of as a sight, image, or palimpsest. In this article, I reflect on the centrality of noise to modernity, and of capitalism to urban sound. In doing so, I pursue a dual goal: to foreground a sound-based und…
Lost and Beautiful or the (Environmental) Ethics of the Lyric Essay Film
This article contributes to a theory of the lyric essay film by bringing studies of the essay film and lyricism to bear on Pietro Marcello’s Lost and Beautiful (2015). We argue that the lyric essay film delivers its argument by leveraging the tension between words and images, narrative and counter-narrative components, and the (non)human subjectivities (i.e. the director’s, characters’ and camera’s) its text embodies and enacts. These tensions ge…
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