Catherine O''Rawe

Biographic Data

ID778627
NAMECatherine O''Rawe
GIVEN NAMESCatherine
FAMILY NAMEO''Rawe
SIGNATURERAWE C O
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Bristol
ORCID0000-0003-1789-9465
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS23
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT22
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Forum on Non-Professional Actors in Independent Cinema

    C Russell, Catherine O''Rawe et al.ARTICLEJournal of Film and Video2026

    in this forum, we ask what so-called non-professional actors bring to the table as creative participants in the filmmaking process. Each author takes a slightly different approach to a variety of films that, together, sketch the historically and geographically expansive scope of this performance trope. Catherine O'Rawe discusses the role of non-professionals in film festival culture, where they are often put on display but rarely listened to, wit…

  • Reflections on a “Missing” Archive

    Carla Mereu Keating, Catherine O''Rawe et al.ARTICLEFeminist Media Histories2025

    This reflection is based on our experience leading the Italian strand of the European Research Council–funded project Studiotec. Film Studios: Infrastructure, Culture, Innovation in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, 1930–60. One of our lines of inquiry has been the presence of women below the line in the Italian studios. In the absence of archival sources, well-documented production histories, and primary source interviews with women movie wor…

  • Intimacy/Activism: Italian Actors and Social Media in the Lockdown

    Catherine O''Rawe, Catherine O’raweARTICLEThe Italianist2021

    This short piece reflects upon a particular kind of social media use during Italy’s lockdown from March to June 2020: it addresses the use of Instagram Live as a medium for stars like Alessandro Borghi to intervene in debates, and to construct a dialogue with fans and experts during an unprecedented period of national crisis. The piece considers how Instagram Live can be studied as a media platform that is now important for the construction of th…

  • Italian Visual Cultures

    Giorgia Alù, Catherine O''Rawe et al.ARTICLEItalian Studies2020

    This article explores how ‘Visual Culture Studies’ has emerged since the 1990s as a productively unstable cluster of research concerns and practices, extending beyond the sectorial bounds of traditional visually-oriented disciplines such as art history or architecture. The two areas of screen studies and photography are explored as case studies that demonstrate how Visual Cultures approaches have expanded research horizons and enhanced teaching a…

  • Italian neorealism and the ‘woman’s film’: Selznick, De Sica and Stazione Termini

    Open AccessCatherine O''Rawe, Catherine O’raweARTICLEScreen2020References: 3

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  • Rural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in a Global Context

    Open AccessC Overduin, LS OW Ned tv-cultuur intern context et al.BOOKRural Cinema Exhibition and…2018

  • Chris Wagstaff (1946–2018)

    Charles L Leavitt, Charles Leavitt et al.ARTICLEThe Italianist2018

    The editors of the Italianist Film Issue wish to express our profound sadness at the death of Chris Wagstaff, on Friday 19 January 2018. Wagstaff was, as Stephen Gundle has said, ‘a great pioneer o

  • Mapping cinema memories: Emotional geographies of cinemagoing in Rome in the 1950s

    Open AccessPierluigi Ercole, Daniela Treveri Gennari et al.ARTICLEMemory Studies2017Cited by: 1References: 6

    This article, based on the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council–funded project ‘In Search of Italian Cinema Audiences in the 1940s and 1950s: Gender, Genre and National Identity’, explores the power of geovisualization for capturing the affective geographies of cinema audiences. This mapping technique, used in our project to interrogate the Italian exhibition sector as well as to map film distribution, is used to illustrate the affective and e…

  • Back for good: Melodrama and the returning soldier in post-war Italian cinema

    Open AccessCatherine O''RaweARTICLEModern Italy2017References: 5

    Italian neorealism is conventionally read as the authoritative cinematic chronicle of Italy’s experience of the Second World War and the Resistance. However, this article argues that viewing this period of Italian cinema solely through the lens of neorealism has obscured the importance of the affective charge of melodrama in constituting an alternative ethics of representation in the late 1940s and early 1950s in Italy, one that worked via an app…

  • The Visibility of Italian Screen Studies in 2017

    Charles L Leavitt, Charles Leavitt et al.ARTICLEThe Italianist2017

  • La polvere dei sogni

    Charles L Leavitt, Charles Leavitt et al.ARTICLEThe Italianist2015

    ‘Dove e come si e depositata la polvere dei sogni nati nel buio delle sale? Come la si puo misurare?’ — Gian Piero Brunetta, Buio in sala‘Il cinema si era impadronito completamente della mia esiste

  • Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema

    Open AccessCatherine O''Rawe, Catherine O’rawe et al.BOOKStars and Masculinities in…2014

    Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema is the first book to explore contemporary male stars and cinematic constructions of masculinity in Italy. Uniting star analysis with a detailed c

  • La Grande Mancanza: Stars, Popular Cinema, and Italian Screen Studies

    Catherine O''Rawe, Catherine O’raweARTICLEThe Italianist2014

    I have spent the last year or so working on a book on masculinity in contemporary Italian cinema. The book, Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema, argues that across a broad range

  • Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma: Opera, melodrama and the Resistance

    Open AccessCatherine O''Rawe, Catherine O'RaweARTICLEModern Italy2012

    Italian neorealism is conventionally read as the authoritative cinematic chronicle of Italy's experience of the Second World War and the Resistance, through canonical films such as Rossellini's Roma città aperta ( Rome, Open City , 1945). It is important, however, to restore a full picture of the array of genres which narrated and refracted the Resistance experience in the post-war period. To this end, this article looks at a key genre that has b…

  • Against realism: On a ‘certain tendency’ in Italian film criticism

    Dana Renga, Alan O'Leary et al.ARTICLEJournal of Modern Italian Studies2011Cited by: 3References: 2

    This polemical article objects to the pervasive use of realism as a value or prescriptive term in the writing of Italian cinema history. It also offers a dissenting appraisal of the ‘institution’ of neorealism: the body of critical work and discourse that constructs neorealism as the ethical and aesthetic centre of Italian cinema. The discursive recourse to neorealism has become the essential authoritative gesture: to fail to refer to it is to ri…

  • Italian Star Studies

    Catherine O''Rawe, Catherine O'RaweARTICLEItalian Studies2010

  • Italian Neorealist Cinema: An Aesthetic Approach

    Catherine O''Rawe, C O'RaweARTICLEScreen2010

    The mammoth size of this book is all the more striking due to the fact that it is, ultimately, a discussion of just three neorealist films, Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City (1945) and Paisà (1946), and Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1948). These films, which form the core of the neorealist corpus, have been the subject of endless critical attention since their release, and continue to attract new work of all sorts, both within and outsid…

  • More more Moro: Music and montage inRomanzo criminale

    Catherine O''Rawe, Catherine O'RaweARTICLEThe Italianist2009Cited by: 1References: 2

    (2009). More more Moro: Music and montage in Romanzo criminale. The Italianist: Vol. 29, Film Issue, pp. 214-226

  • I padri e i maestri’: Genre, Auteurs, and Absences in Italian Film Studies

    Catherine O''Rawe, Catherine O'RaweARTICLEItalian Studies2008

    This article discusses the current state of Italian film studies, placing it within a critical context in which Italian cinema is thought to be perennially ‘in crisis’. It addresses the discipline's obsessive interest in neorealism and in auteur cinema, and looks at the history of debate on the contested critical status of Italian popular and genre production, using as a case study the inchiesta in 1955–56 in the Communist newspaper L'Unità on ‘c…

  • Mapping Sicilian Literature: Place and Text in Bufalino and Consolo

    Catherine O''Rawe, Catherine O'RaweARTICLEItalian Studies2007

    This article examines the articulation of a 'poetics of place' as found specifically in essays and prefaces by the Sicilian writers Gesualdo Bufalino and Vincenzo Consolo. It places both authors within a tradition of writing about Sicily, a tradition which is, it has been argued, 'citationary' and intertextual. It then outlines the three principal techniques the authors use to construct a particular rhetorical discourse of the Sicilian place, whi…

  • Authors, Texts, and Pre-Texts: Pirandello'suno~ Nessuno E Centomila as 'Romanzotest Ament Arlo

    Catherine O''Rawe, Catherine O'RaweARTICLEItalian Studies2003

  • Pirandello's Ivecchi e i giovani: History, space, metaphor

    Catherine O''Rawe, Catherine O'RaweARTICLEThe Italianist2003

  • Pirandello's I vecchi e i giovani: History, space, metaphor

    Catherine O''Rawe, Catherine O'RaweARTICLEThe Italianist2003References: 1