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Laura Rascaroli is Professor in Film and Screen Media at University College Cork, where she lectures on film theory, on documentary, and on European and World Cinema.
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Laura Rascaroli is Professor in Film and Screen Media at University College Cork, where she lectures on film theory, on documentary, and on European and World Cinema.
Her research interests span European and World cinemas; experimental nonfiction, the essay film, and first-person cinemas; artist film; the post-cinematic medium; space & film (the filmic city, film & architecture, travel & cinema); and the politics of form.
She is the author of two monographic studies on essayistic and first-person nonfiction: The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film (Wallflower Press, 2009) and How the Essay Film Thinks (Oxford University Press, 2017). She has also co-authored three research monographs, on the postmodern cinematic city, on the European road movie, and on the cinema of Nanni Moretti. Among her four edited collections are Antonioni: Centenary Essays (British Film Institute, 2011) and Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2020). She has delivered about a hundred invited keynotes, lectures and master classes internationally in universities, film festivals and cultural institutes, and has been invited to teach in Cuba, Italy, and Spain. Her work has been translated into languages including Farsi, Chinese, Korean, Czech, Polish, Spanish, and Italian.
She is Editor-in-Chief of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media.
She is Editor-in-Chief of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media.
She is also a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies; [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies; and the International Journal of Film and Media Arts, and of the advisory boards of Screen; Studies in Documentary Film; Comunicazioni Sociali; Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image; L'Avventura: International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes; Studies in Arts and Humanities; Research in Film and History; Kino: International Journal of Film and Media Arts; Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture; and Kwartalnik Filmowy. She has been Vice-Chair of the ECREA Film Studies Section (2012–2018), and currently sits on the advisory boards of AIM (Associação de Investigadores da Imagem em Movimento), and of the Documentary Film Cultures Book Series (Peter Lang).
Research Interests
- Art film
- Nonfiction cinema
- The essay film, first-person and autobiographical film
- European and world cinemas
- Space, geopolitics, the built environment
- Modernism and postmodernism
Research Grants
| Project | Funding Body | Start Date | End Date | Award | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish Home Movies 1930-1970 in collaboration with the Irish Film Institute - Strand 1 | Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) | 01-DEC-08 | 31-DEC-10 | €99,999.00 | |
| HEACOVID19 | 01-DEC-21 | 30-APR-22 | €25,321.00 | ||
| Media Homes: Screening Housing Precarity in Ireland, the UK and Portugal from the 2008 crisis to COVID-19. | Irish Research Council | 01-SEP-21 | 30-NOV-21 | €96,417.00 | |
| Media Homes: Housing Precarity on Screen in Ireland, Portugal and the UK from the 2008 crisis to COVID-19. | Horizon 2020 | 01-DEC-21 | 30-NOV-23 | €184,591.00 | |
| HEACOVID19 | 01-APR-21 | 02-SEP-22 | €24,656.00 | ||
| HEACOVID19 | 01-OCT-21 | 31-DEC-21 | €6,720.00 | ||
| Positively Modern: Michelangelo Antonioni and Affirmative Cinematic Ecologies. | Irish Research Council | 01-SEP-21 | 31-MAR-23 | €96,417.00 | |
| SATL AS1738 | Higher Education authority | 01-MAR-21 | 31-MAY-22 | €13,440.00 | |
| Projecting the Nation - Italian Cinema, Proganda and Little Fascist Italies in Britian and Ireland. | Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) | 30-SEP-11 | 30-SEP-13 | €78,756.00 | |
| New Cinemars, Changing Audiences. | Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) | 19-DEC-11 | 31-MAR-12 | €5,800.00 | |
| College Lecture Awards 2006 | Miscellaneous Non Exchequer | 25-APR-06 | 30-JUN-11 | €10,000.00 | |
| [IRCHSS SG] {Rascaroli Dr. L} N | Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) | 01-NOV-03 | 31-OCT-05 | €3,400.00 | |
| Michelangelo Antonioni Centerary Workshop. | Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) | 19-DEC-11 | 31-MAR-12 | €3,256.00 | |
| Crises in Utopia: Contemporary Science Fiction Cinemaand the Project | Irish Research Council | 01-OCT-16 | 30-SEP-18 | €84,269.00 | |
| Crossing New Europe: The European Road Movie | Irish Research Council | 01-SEP-02 | 31-AUG-03 | €30,000.00 | |
| Irish Research Council; Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship 2017; Humberto Lima Saldanha Magalhaes Silva; GOIPG/2017/1983; "The Cosmopolitanism of Contemporary Global Cinema..."; Laura Rascaroli | Irish Research Council | 01-OCT-17 | 30-SEP-19 | €47,060.00 | |
| MUSLIMWOMENFILM | Horizon 2020 | 01-JAN-20 | 30-APR-22 | €196,591.00 | |
| Performative Feedback Filmaking: Particpatory Documentary and Creative Self Representation in the Community. | Irish Research Council | 01-SEP-19 | 31-AUG-22 | €72,000.00 | |
| Unfolding Borders: Filming the EU in the Age of Dislocation. | Enterprise Irl | 28-FEB-19 | 28-AUG-19 | €8,840.00 |
Publications
Books
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2017) | How the Essay Film Thinks. Rascaroli, Laura (2017) How the Essay Film Thinks. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Details] | |
| (2009) | The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and The Essay Film. Rascaroli, Laura; (2009) The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and The Essay Film. London: Wallflower Press. [Details] | |
| (2006) | Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie. Mazierska, Ewa and Rascaroli, Laura; (2006) Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie. London: Wallflower Press. [Details] | |
| (2004) | The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries. Mazierska, Ewa and Rascaroli, Laura; (2004) The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries. London: Wallflower Press. [Details] | |
| (2003) | From Moscow to Madrid: Postmodern Cities European Cinema. Mazierska, Ewa and Rascaroli, Laura; (2003) From Moscow to Madrid: Postmodern Cities European Cinema. London: I.B. Tauris. [Details] |
Translations
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2021) | 난니 모레티의 영화 [The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries]. Mazierska, Ewa, and Laura Rascaroli (2021) 난니 모레티의 영화 [The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries]. Seul: Translations [Details] | |
| (2021) | ‘Filmová esej: Problémy, defínicie a textové záväzky – prvá čásť. Rascaroli, Laura (2021) ‘Filmová esej: Problémy, defínicie a textové záväzky – prvá čásť. Translations [Details] | |
| (2020) | The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film [in Farsi, translated by Mohammadreza Farzad]. Rascaroli, Laura (2020) The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film [in Farsi, translated by Mohammadreza Farzad]. Tehran, Iran: Translations [Details] | |
| (2014) | 私人摄像机：主观电影和散文影片 (The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film). Rascaroli, Laura (2014) 私人摄像机：主观电影和散文影片 (The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film). Beijing: Translations [Details] | |
| (2014) | 난니 모레티의 영화 [The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries]. Mazierska, Ewa, and Laura Rascaroli (2014) 난니 모레티의 영화 [The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries]. Seul: Translations [Details] | |
| (2014) | ‘El cine subjetivo y el ojo de la cámara’. Rascaroli, Laura (2014) ‘El cine subjetivo y el ojo de la cámara’. Mexico: Translations [Details] | |
| (2012) | 난니 모레티의 영화 [The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries]. Mazierska, Ewa, and Laura Rascaroli (2012) 난니 모레티의 영화 [The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries]. Seul: Translations [Details] | |
| (2012) | Il film saggio: un sublime paradosso teorico. Rascaroli, Laura (2012) Il film saggio: un sublime paradosso teorico. Italy: Translations [Details] | |
| (2009) | 副标题: 南尼 莫瑞蒂的电影 (Dreams and Diaries: The Cinema of Nanni Moretti). Mazierska, Ewa; Rascaroli, Laura (2009) 副标题: 南尼 莫瑞蒂的电影 (Dreams and Diaries: The Cinema of Nanni Moretti). Shanghai: Translations [Details] | |
| (2007) | Girando la nuova Europa: Viaggi postmoderni del road movie europeo. Mazierska, Ewa and Rascaroli, Laura; (2007) Girando la nuova Europa: Viaggi postmoderni del road movie europeo. Rome: Translations [Details] | |
| (2006) | Il cinema di Nanni Moretti: Sogni e diari. Mazierska, Ewa and Rascaroli, Laura; (2006) Il cinema di Nanni Moretti: Sogni e diari. Rome: Translations [Details] | |
| (2005) | Nanni Moretti. Mazierska, Ewa and Rascaroli, Laura; (2005) Nanni Moretti. Warsaw: Translations [Details] |
Edited Books
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2021) | Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema Rascaroli, Laura and Jill Murphy (Ed.). (2021) Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [Details] | |
| (2014) | Amateur Filmmaking: The Home Movie, the Archive, the Web Rascaroli, Laura, Gwenda Young and Barry Monahan (Ed.). (2014) Amateur Filmmaking: The Home Movie, the Archive, the Web Amateur Filmmaking: The Home Movie, the Archive, the Web. London: Bloomsbury Academic. [Details] | |
| (2011) | Antonioni: Centenary Essays Rascaroli, Laura, John David Rhodes (Ed.). (2011) Antonioni: Centenary Essays Antonioni: Centenary Essays. London: British Film Institute/Palgrave McMillan. [Details] | |
| (2010) | The Cause of Cosmopolitanism: Dispositions, Models, Transformations O'Donovan, Patrick, Rascaroli, Laura (Ed.). (2010) The Cause of Cosmopolitanism: Dispositions, Models, Transformations The Cause of Cosmopolitanism: Dispositions, Models, Transformations. Oxford: Peter Lang. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2024) | 'Voicing the Border: On Some Spectral Essay Films' Rascaroli, Laura (2024) 'Voicing the Border: On Some Spectral Essay Films'. Comparative Cinema, XII (22):13-35 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2023) | 'Lost and Beautiful or the (Environmental) Ethics of the Lyric Essay Film' Rascaroli, Laura, and Paolo Saporito (2023) 'Lost and Beautiful or the (Environmental) Ethics of the Lyric Essay Film'. Film-Philosophy, 27 (3):464-487 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2023) | '‘Sonic Modernities: Capitalism, Noise, and the City Essay Film.’' Rascaroli, Laura (2023) '‘Sonic Modernities: Capitalism, Noise, and the City Essay Film.’'. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 21 (3):527-543 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2022) | 'Unfolding Borders: For a Semiotics of Essayistic Border Images' Rascaroli, Laura (2022) 'Unfolding Borders: For a Semiotics of Essayistic Border Images'. Comparative Cinema, 10 (18):32-52 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2022) | ''On Film & Territory: Treading Ground with Sacro GRA '' Rascaroli, Laura (2022) ''On Film & Territory: Treading Ground with Sacro GRA ''. Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 10 (3):475-491 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2019) | 'Correspondence: Lee Ming-Yu/Laura Rascaroli' Lee, Ming-Yu, and Laura Rascaroli (2019) 'Correspondence: Lee Ming-Yu/Laura Rascaroli'. La Valle dell’Eden, 35 :123-131 [Details] | |
| (2015) | '‘Still Drifting? Expanded Situationism and Filmic Dérive’' Rascaroli, Laura (2015) '‘Still Drifting? Expanded Situationism and Filmic Dérive’'. Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image, 2 (1) [Details] | |
| (2013) | 'Becoming-Minor in a Sustainable Europe: The Contemporary European Art Film and Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre' Rascaroli, Laura (2013) 'Becoming-Minor in a Sustainable Europe: The Contemporary European Art Film and Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre'. Screen, 54 (3):323-340 [Details] | |
| (2013) | 'A Common European Home? Filming the Urban Thirdspace in Marc Isaacs’s Lift (2001)' Rascaroli, Laura (2013) 'A Common European Home? Filming the Urban Thirdspace in Marc Isaacs’s Lift (2001)'. Studies In Documentary Film, 7 (1):3-15 [Details] | |
| (2012) | 'Autoetnography: Essaying the I' Rascaroli, Laura (2012) 'Autoetnography: Essaying the I'. Comunicazioni Sociali, (3):397-403 [Details] | |
| (2011) | 'Burning Passions, Flammable Decade: Cinema, Avant-Garde, Self and Society in 'The Fire in the Water' (1977)' Rascaroli, Laura; (2011) 'Burning Passions, Flammable Decade: Cinema, Avant-Garde, Self and Society in 'The Fire in the Water' (1977)'. Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, 15 (1+2):654-666 [Details] | |
| (2011) | 'Sonic interstices: essayistic voiceover and spectatorial space in Robert Cambrinus's 'Commentary' (2009)' Rascaroli, Laura; (2011) 'Sonic interstices: essayistic voiceover and spectatorial space in Robert Cambrinus's 'Commentary' (2009)'. Media Fields Journal, 1 (3):1-10 [Details] | |
| (2010) | 'Remapping the Neorealist Nation: Il cammino della speranza and the Rhetorics of the Road to Realism' Rascaroli, L (2010) 'Remapping the Neorealist Nation: Il cammino della speranza and the Rhetorics of the Road to Realism'. Italian Studies, 65 :345-360 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2010) | 'Remapping the Neorealist Nation: 'Il cammino della speranza' and the Rhetorics of the Road to Realism' Rascaroli, Laura; (2010) 'Remapping the Neorealist Nation: 'Il cammino della speranza' and the Rhetorics of the Road to Realism'. Italian Studies, 65 (3):345-360 [Details] | |
| (2009) | 'Turyści, podróżnicy i współczesne europejskie kino transnarodowe (Tourist, Travellers and Contemporary European Transnational Cinema)' Mazierka, Ewa; Rascaroli, Laura; (2009) 'Turyści, podróżnicy i współczesne europejskie kino transnarodowe (Tourist, Travellers and Contemporary European Transnational Cinema)'. Panoptikum, 15 (8):126-145 [Details] | |
| (2009) | 'Performance in and of the Essay film: Jean-Luc Godard plays Jean-Luc Godard in Notre musique (2004)' Rascaroli, Laura (2009) 'Performance in and of the Essay film: Jean-Luc Godard plays Jean-Luc Godard in Notre musique (2004)'. Studies In French Cinema, 9 :49-61 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2008) | 'The essay film: problems, definitions, textual commitments' Rascaroli, Laura; (2008) 'The essay film: problems, definitions, textual commitments'. Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, 49 (2):24-47 [Details] | |
| (2008) | 'Antonioni and the place of Modernity: a Tribute' Rascaroli, Laura and John David Rhodes; (2008) 'Antonioni and the place of Modernity: a Tribute'. Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, 49 (1):42-47 [Details] | |
| (2006) | 'The place of the heart: scaling spaces in Robert Guédiguian's cinema' Rascaroli, Laura; (2006) 'The place of the heart: scaling spaces in Robert Guédiguian's cinema'. Studies In French Cinema, 6 (2):95-105 [Details] | |
| (2005) | 'Home and Away: Nanni Moretti's 'The Last Customer' and the ground zero of transnational identities'' Rascaroli, Laura; (2005) 'Home and Away: Nanni Moretti's 'The Last Customer' and the ground zero of transnational identities''. New Cinemas, 3 (3):187-200 [Details] | |
| (2004) | 'The Reflecting Screen. On metaphors of cinema and spectatorship and their articulation in Bigelow's Strange Days' Rascaroli, Laura; (2004) 'The Reflecting Screen. On metaphors of cinema and spectatorship and their articulation in Bigelow's Strange Days'. Projections, 50 (16:2):10-24 [Details] | |
| (2003) | 'New voyages to Italy: Postmodern travellers and the Italian road film' Rascaroli, Laura (2003) 'New voyages to Italy: Postmodern travellers and the Italian road film'. Screen, 44 :71-91 [Details] | |
| (2002) | 'Like a dream. A Critical History of the Oneiric Metaphor in Film Theory' Rascaroli, Laura; (2002) 'Like a dream. A Critical History of the Oneiric Metaphor in Film Theory'. KINEMA, * (18):5-22 [Details] | |
| (2002) | 'The Space of a Return. A Topographic Study of Alain Resnais's 'Providence'' Rascaroli, Laura; (2002) 'The Space of a Return. A Topographic Study of Alain Resnais's 'Providence''. Studies in French Cinema, II (1):50-58 [Details] | |
| (2001) | 'Back to the Present. Scopic Drive, Time Travel and Film Spectatorship in Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys and Bigelow's Strange Days' Rascaroli, Laura; (2001) 'Back to the Present. Scopic Drive, Time Travel and Film Spectatorship in Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys and Bigelow's Strange Days'. Kinema, * (15):29-41 [Details] | |
| (2000) | 'Trapped in the Present. Time in the Films of Wong Kar-Wai' Mazierska, Ewa and Rascaroli, Laura; (2000) 'Trapped in the Present. Time in the Films of Wong Kar-Wai'. Film Criticism, XXV (2):2-20 [Details] | |
| (1998) | 'Strange Visions: Kathryn Bigelow's Metafiction' Rascaroli, Laura; (1998) 'Strange Visions: Kathryn Bigelow's Metafiction'. ENCULTURATION, 2 (1):*-* [Details] | |
| (1997) | 'Steel in the gaze: On POV and the discourse of vision in Kathryn Bigelow's cinema' Rascaroli, L (1997) 'Steel in the gaze: On POV and the discourse of vision in Kathryn Bigelow's cinema'. Screen, 38 :232-246 [Details] |
Book Chapters
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2024) | 'History otherwise: On Penny Siopsis's experimental film' Rascaroli, Laura (2024) 'History otherwise: On Penny Siopsis's experimental film' In: Katerina Gregos (eds). Penny Siopis: For Dear Life. A Retrospective. Athens: ΕΜΣΤ - National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens. [Details] | |
| (2024) | 'Can You Write a History?' Rascaroli, Laura (2024) 'Can You Write a History?' In: Sarah Nuttall (eds). Your History with Me: The Films of Penny Siopis. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2020) | 'James Baldwin’s embodied absence: I Am Not Your Negro and filmic corporeality' Rascaroli, Laura (2020) 'James Baldwin’s embodied absence: I Am Not Your Negro and filmic corporeality' In: Baron, Jaimie; Fuhs, Kristen (eds). I Am Not Your Negro: A Docalogue. New York: Routledge. [DOI] [Full Text] [Details] | |
| (2020) | 'No | Home | Movie' Rascaroli, Laura (2020) 'No | Home | Movie' In: Baschiera, Stefano, and Miriam De Rosa (eds). Film and Domestic Space: Architectures, Representations, Dispositif. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Details] | |
| (2020) | 'Time/Frame: On Cinematic Duration' Rascaroli, Laura (2020) 'Time/Frame: On Cinematic Duration' In: Murphy, Jill, and Laura Rascaroli (eds). Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [Details] | |
| (2020) | 'Introduction: On Cinema Expanding' Murphy, Jill, and Laura Rascaroli (2020) 'Introduction: On Cinema Expanding' In: Murphy, Jill, and Laura Rascaroli (eds). Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [Details] | |
| (2020) | 'On the Eve of the Journey: The New European Road Movie' Rascaroli, Laura (2020) 'On the Eve of the Journey: The New European Road Movie' In: European Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Discourses, Directions and Genres. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details] | |
| (2020) | 'Compounding the Lyric Essay Film: Towards a Theory of Poetic Counter-Narrative' Rascaroli, Laura (2020) 'Compounding the Lyric Essay Film: Towards a Theory of Poetic Counter-Narrative' In: Vassilieva, Julia, and Deane Williams (eds). Beyond the Essay Film: Subjectivity, Textuality and Technology. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [Details] | |
| (2019) | 'Cinewriting the Self: The Letter-Film as Self-Portrait' Rascaroli, Laura (2019) 'Cinewriting the Self: The Letter-Film as Self-Portrait' In: Muriel Tinel-Temple, Laura Busetta, and Marlène Monteiro (eds). From Self-Portrait to Selfie: Representing the Self in the Moving Image. Bern: Peter Lang. [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2019) | 'Unfolding Borders. EU-Grenzen in Zeiten der Globalisierung' Rascaroli, Laura (2019) 'Unfolding Borders. EU-Grenzen in Zeiten der Globalisierung' In: Delia González de Reufels, Winfried Pauleit, and Angela Rabing (eds). Grenzüberschreitendes Kino. Geoästhetik, Arbeitsmigration und transnationale Identitätsbildung. Berlin: Bertz+Fischer. [Details] | |
| (2019) | 'The Essay Film and its Global Contexts: Conversations on Forms and Practices' Rascaroli, Laura, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Bo Wang, and Susana Barriga (2019) 'The Essay Film and its Global Contexts: Conversations on Forms and Practices' In: Brenda Hollweg, Igor Krstic (eds). World Cinema and the Essay Film: Transnational Perspectives on a Global Practice. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Details] | |
| (2017) | 'A Feather' Rascaroli, Laura (2017) 'A Feather' In: Ruggero Eugeni, Mariagrazia Fanchi (eds). La galassia Casetti. Lettere di stima, di amicizia, di stima e di provocazione. Milan: Vita e Pensiero. [Details] | |
| (2017) | 'Correspondence: Lee Ming-Yu/Laura Rascaroli' Rascaroli, Laura (2017) 'Correspondence: Lee Ming-Yu/Laura Rascaroli' In: Lee Ming-Yu (eds). The Diary Film and Subjectivity of the Self: Taiwan, New York, Paris. Kangchien, Taiwan: Le Ganges Edition. [Details] | |
| (2017) | 'The Essay Film: Problems, Definitions, Textual Commitments' Rascaroli, Laura (2017) 'The Essay Film: Problems, Definitions, Textual Commitments' In: Essays on the Essay Film. New York: Columbia UP. [Details] | |
| (2017) | ''Thinking Cinema: The Essay Film Tradition in Italy’' Rascaroli, Laura (2017) ''Thinking Cinema: The Essay Film Tradition in Italy’' In: Burke, Frank (eds). The Blackwell Companion to Italian Cinema. London: Blackwell. [Details] | |
| (2016) | 'Order, Chaos, and the Sublime: On the figure of Christ in Il vangelo secondo Matteo' Rascaroli, Laura (2016) 'Order, Chaos, and the Sublime: On the figure of Christ in Il vangelo secondo Matteo' In: Roberto Cavallini (eds). Requiem for a Nation: Religion and Politics in Post-war Italian Cinema, 1945-1975. UK: Mimesis International. [Details] | |
| (2016) | '‘Afterword: The Idea of Essay Film’' Rascaroli, Laura (2016) '‘Afterword: The Idea of Essay Film’' In: Elizabeth Papazian and Caroline Eades (eds). The Essay Film: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia. London: Wallflower Press/Columbia UP. [Details] | |
| (2015) | 'The Musealisation of Experience: Chris Marker’s Digital Subject Between Archive, Museum and Database' Rascaroli, Laura (2015) 'The Musealisation of Experience: Chris Marker’s Digital Subject Between Archive, Museum and Database' In: Teresa M. Flores, Joana Cunha Leal, Margarida Medeiros (eds). Photography and Cinema: 50 Years of Chris Marker's La Jetee. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars. [Details] | |
| (2015) | ''La sostenibilità del cinema d’autore: a proposito di Blow Up e Lo zio Boonmee che si ricorda le vite precedenti’' Rascaroli, Laura (2015) ''La sostenibilità del cinema d’autore: a proposito di Blow Up e Lo zio Boonmee che si ricorda le vite precedenti’' In: Alberto Boschi, Francesco Di Chiara (eds). Antonioni: prospettive, culture, politiche, spazi. Il Castoro: Milan. [Details] | |
| (2014) | ''Italian Cinema in the Post-national Age’' Rsacaroli, Laura (2014) ''Italian Cinema in the Post-national Age’' In: The Italian Cinema Book. London: BFI/Palgrave MacMillan. [Details] | |
| (2014) | 'The Exploding Girl (2009): The Everyday and the Occluded Gaze' Rascaroli, Laura (2014) 'The Exploding Girl (2009): The Everyday and the Occluded Gaze' In: Claire Perkins & Constantine Verevis (eds). U.S. Independent Filmmaking After 1989: Possible Films. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Details] | |
| (2014) | '‘Introduction. Amateur Filmmaking: New Developments and Directions’' Rascaroli, Laura (2014) '‘Introduction. Amateur Filmmaking: New Developments and Directions’' In: Rascaroli, Laura, Gwenda Young, with Barry Monahan (eds). Amateur Filmmaking: The Home Movie, the Archive, the Web. New York/London: Bloomsbury Academic. [Details] | |
| (2014) | '‘Working at Home: Tarnation, Amateur Authorship, and Self-Inscription in the Digital Age’' Rascaroli, Laura (2014) '‘Working at Home: Tarnation, Amateur Authorship, and Self-Inscription in the Digital Age’' In: Rascaroli, Laura, Gwenda Young, with Barry Monahan (eds). Amateur Filmmaking: The Home Movie, the Archive, the Web. New York/London: Bloomsbury Academic. [Details] | |
| (2013) | 'On the Eve of the Journey: Tangier, Tbilisi, Calais' Rascaroli, Laura (2013) 'On the Eve of the Journey: Tangier, Tbilisi, Calais' In: Transnationalism, Mobility and New Migrations in the Contemporary French-Language Road Movie. London: Intellect. [Details] | |
| (2013) | '‘Transits: Essayistic Thinking at the Junctures of Images in Harun Farocki's Respite and Arnaud des Pallières's Drancy Avenir’' Rascaroli, Laura (2013) '‘Transits: Essayistic Thinking at the Junctures of Images in Harun Farocki's Respite and Arnaud des Pallières's Drancy Avenir’' In: Holocaust Intersections: Genocide and Visual Culture at the New Millennium. Oxford: Legenda. [Details] | |
| (2013) | '‘Solid Borders, Fluid Nation: On Pietro Germi’s Il cammino della speranza’' Rascaroli, Laura (2013) '‘Solid Borders, Fluid Nation: On Pietro Germi’s Il cammino della speranza’' In: The Cinemas of Italian Migration: European and Transatlantic Narratives. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. [Details] | |
| (2012) | ''Michelangelo's Last Gaze'' Rascaroli, Laura; (2012) ''Michelangelo's Last Gaze'' In: The Cinema of Me: The Self and Subjectivity in First Person Documentary Film. London: Wallflower Press. [Details] | |
| (2012) | ''Corpo estraneo. La letteratura critica anglofona'' Rascaroli, Laura (2012) ''Corpo estraneo. La letteratura critica anglofona'' In: Nanni Moretti. Lo sguardo morale. Venezia: Marsilio. [Details] | |
| (2011) | 'Modernity, Put into Form: 'Blow-Up', Objectuality, 1960s Antonioni' Rascaroli, Laura; (2011) 'Modernity, Put into Form: 'Blow-Up', Objectuality, 1960s Antonioni' In: Antonioni: Centenary Essays. London: BFI/Palgrave. [Details] | |
| (2011) | 'Interstitial, Pretentious, Alienated, Dead: Antonioni at 100' Rascaroli, Laura, Rhodes, John David ; (2011) 'Interstitial, Pretentious, Alienated, Dead: Antonioni at 100' In: Antonioni: Centenary Essays. London: BFI/Palgrave. [Details] | |
| (2010) | 'Introduction: The Cosmopolitan between Spaces and Practices' O'Donovan, Patrick and Rascaroli, Laura; (2010) 'Introduction: The Cosmopolitan between Spaces and Practices' In: The Cause of Cosmopolitanism: Dispositions, Models, Transformations. Oxford: Peter Lang. [Details] | |
| (2010) | 'Home and Away: Nanni Moretti's The Last Customer and the Ground Zero of Transnational Identities' Rascaroli, Laura; (2010) 'Home and Away: Nanni Moretti's The Last Customer and the Ground Zero of Transnational Identities' In: The Cause of Cosmopolitanism: Dispositions, Models, Transformations. Oxford: Peter Lang. [Details] | |
| (2010) | 'The Essay Film as Sublime Theoretical Paradox' Rascaroli, Laura; (2010) 'The Essay Film as Sublime Theoretical Paradox' In: Dall'inizio, alla fine: Teorie del cinema in prospettiva. Udine: Forum Editrice. [Details] | |
| (2009) | 'On Fog and Snow: Thought as Movement, or the Journey of the Essay Film' Rascaroli, Laura; (2009) 'On Fog and Snow: Thought as Movement, or the Journey of the Essay Film' In: Telling Stories: Countering Narrative in Art, Theory and Film. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press. [Details] | |
| (2009) | 'Ein Albtraum von sich selbst: Filmische Selbstportrats zwischen Dokument und Traum (One's Nightmare of One's Self: Self-Portraiture between Document and Dream)' Rascaroli, Laura; (2009) 'Ein Albtraum von sich selbst: Filmische Selbstportrats zwischen Dokument und Traum (One's Nightmare of One's Self: Self-Portraiture between Document and Dream)' In: Das Kino Träumt: Projektion. Imagination. Vision (Cinema Dreams. Projection. Imagination. Vision). Berlin: Bertz+Fischer. [Details] | |
| (2009) | '‘Strade di confine: Italia e Europa orientale nel cinema italiano degli anni Novanta’' Rascaroli, Laura (2009) '‘Strade di confine: Italia e Europa orientale nel cinema italiano degli anni Novanta’' In: Da Rif, Bianca Maria (eds). Civiltà italiana e geografie d’Europa. Trieste: EUT. [Details] | |
| (2006) | 'L'annee derniere a Marienbad/Last Year in Marienbad' Rascaroli, Laura; (2006) 'L'annee derniere a Marienbad/Last Year in Marienbad' In: The Cinema of France. London: Wallflower Press. [Details] | |
| (2005) | 'Nanni Moretti' Rascaroli, Laura; (2005) 'Nanni Moretti' In: Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. [Details] | |
| (2005) | 'Ricciotto Canudo' Rascaroli, Laura; (2005) 'Ricciotto Canudo' In: Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. [Details] | |
| (2005) | 'Manchester/Liverpool/Glasgow' Rascaroli, Laura and Baschiera, Stefano; (2005) 'Manchester/Liverpool/Glasgow' In: La ville au cinéma. [Details] | |
| (2005) | 'Dublin' Rascaroli, Laura; (2005) 'Dublin' In: La ville au cinéma. [Details] | |
| (2004) | 'Mazzacurati, Soldini & Amelio: Highways, Side Roads and Borderlines - the New Italian Road Movie' Rascaroli, Laura; (2004) 'Mazzacurati, Soldini & Amelio: Highways, Side Roads and Borderlines - the New Italian Road Movie' In: Italian Cinema-New Directions. [Details] | |
| (2004) | 'Caro diario/Dear Diary' Rascaroli, Laura; (2004) 'Caro diario/Dear Diary' In: The Cinema of Italy. [Details] | |
| (2003) | 'Time Travel and Film Spectatorship in Twelve Monkeys and Strange Days' Rascaroli, Laura; (2003) 'Time Travel and Film Spectatorship in Twelve Monkeys and Strange Days' In: The Science Fiction Film Reader. [Details] |
Journal Volume Edited
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2018) | Il documentario italiano: modelli, poetiche, esiti. Formenti, Cristina, Laura Rascaroli (2018) Il documentario italiano: modelli, poetiche, esiti. Milan: Journal Volume Edited [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2017) | Issue 14: For a Cosmopolitan Cinema. Mulvey, James, Laura Rascaroli, and Humberto Saldanha (2017) Issue 14: For a Cosmopolitan Cinema. Journal Volume Edited [Details] | |
| (2015) | Issue 8: Animation at the Cutting Edge. Chen, Yuanyuan, and Laura Rascaroli (2015) Issue 8: Animation at the Cutting Edge. Journal Volume Edited [Details] |
Book Reviews
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2013) | Review of Karl Schoonover, Brutal Vision: the Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema. Rascaroli, Laura (2013) Review of Karl Schoonover, Brutal Vision: the Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema. Book Reviews [Details] | |
| (2011) | Review of Dimitris Eleftheriotis, Cinematic Journeys: Film and Movement. Edinburgh: Edinburg University Press, 2010. Rascaroli, Laura; (2011) Review of Dimitris Eleftheriotis, Cinematic Journeys: Film and Movement. Edinburgh: Edinburg University Press, 2010. Book Reviews [Details] | |
| (2006) | Review of Grace Bullaro (ed), Beyond 'Life is Beautifu'l: Comedy and Tragedy in the Cinema of Roberto Benigni. Rascaroli, Laura; (2006) Review of Grace Bullaro (ed), Beyond 'Life is Beautifu'l: Comedy and Tragedy in the Cinema of Roberto Benigni. Book Reviews [Details] |
Blog
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2017) | What Makes the Fastnet Film Festival Green?. Rascaroli, Laura (2017) What Makes the Fastnet Film Festival Green?. Schull, West Cork: Blog [Details] |
Other Journals
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2019) | ''Thinking in Pictures'' Rascaroli, Laura (2019) ''Thinking in Pictures'' Sight and Sound, 29 (4) :12-13. [Details] | |
| (2019) | 'The Diachronic Flâneur' Rascaroli, Laura (2019) 'The Diachronic Flâneur' Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Cultures, 3 (4) . [Details] | |
| (2018) | 'Reframing the City of Cinema' Rascaroli, Laura (2018) 'Reframing the City of Cinema' Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Cultures, 3 (4) . [Details] | |
| (2015) | 'Animation at the Cutting Edge: Editorial' Chen, Yuanyuan, and Laura Rascaroli (2015) 'Animation at the Cutting Edge: Editorial' Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, (8) . [Details] | |
| (2011) | 'Back to the Future: The European Film Studies Agenda Today' Rascaroli, Laura; (2011) 'Back to the Future: The European Film Studies Agenda Today' Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 1 (1) :1-4. [Full Text] [Details] | |
| (2013) | 'Ancora alla deriva? Su alcune pratiche filmiche e locative postsituazioniste’' Rascaroli, Laura (2013) 'Ancora alla deriva? Su alcune pratiche filmiche e locative postsituazioniste’' Alfabeta2, (September--October) :30-30. [Details] | |
| (2012) | 'The Essay Film, part 2' Rascaroli, Laura (2012) 'The Essay Film, part 2' Vamostanad, . [Details] | |
| (2012) | 'The Essay Film, part 1' Rascaroli, Laura (2012) 'The Essay Film, part 1' Vamostanad, . [Details] | |
| (2009) | 'Capturing the Nation: Irish Home Movies, 1930-1970' Rascaroli, Laura, Gwenda Young, Barry Monahan; (2009) 'Capturing the Nation: Irish Home Movies, 1930-1970' Film Ireland, (130) :46-46. [Details] | |
| (2009) | 'Capturing the Nation: Irish Home Movies, 1930-1970' Rascaroli, Laura ; (2009) 'Capturing the Nation: Irish Home Movies, 1930-1970' Society of Archivists of Ireland Newsletter, :14-17. [Details] | |
| (2008) | 'Girando la nuova Europa (Interview)' Rascaroli, Laura; Luca Balduzzi; (2008) 'Girando la nuova Europa (Interview)' ImolaOggi, . [Details] |
Catalog
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2017) | ‘Out of Screen, Out of Time: The Temporality of Exhibited Cinema’. Rascaroli, Laura (2017) ‘Out of Screen, Out of Time: The Temporality of Exhibited Cinema’. London: Catalog [Details] |
DVD
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2011) | Capturing the Nation: Irish Home Movies, 1930-1970. Monahan, Barry; Rascaroli, Laura; Gwenda Young (2011) Capturing the Nation: Irish Home Movies, 1930-1970. Cork: DVD [Details] |
Review Articles
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2003) | Silvio Soldini's 'Un'anima divisa in due'. Some Things Are More Important Than Happiness. Rascaroli, Laura; (2003) Silvio Soldini's 'Un'anima divisa in due'. Some Things Are More Important Than Happiness. Review Articles [Details] |
Professional Activities
Honours and Awards
| Year | Title | Awarding Body | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | CACSSS Research Achievement Award | ||
| 2002 | President's Award for Excellence in Teaching | University College Cork | |
| 2002 | Government of Ireland Research Fellowship |
Professional Associations
| Association | Function | From / To | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ECREA: European Communication Research and Education Association | Vice-Chair, Film Studies Section | 28-OCT-12 / | |
| NECS - European Network for Film and Media Studies | Member | 06-JAN-07 / | |
| British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) | Member | 01-SEP-14 / |
Conference Contributions
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2024) | BAFTSS Essay Film Special Interest Group Seminar, Rascaroli, Laura (2024) Sonic Modernities: Capitalism, Noise, and the City Essay Film. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], BAFTSS Essay Film Special Interest Group Seminar, Online , 11-OCT-24 - 11-OCT-24. [Details] | |
| (2024) | Wenner-Gren Workshop: Aesthetic Communication: The Role of Senses in Social Interaction, Across and Beyond the Human, Rascaroli, Laura (2024) The Affective Cine-Writing of Penny Siopis: Between Grammar and Viscerality. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], Wenner-Gren Workshop: Aesthetic Communication: The Role of Senses in Social Interaction, Across and Beyond the Human, University College Cork , 11-JUN-24 - 14-JUN-24. [Details] | |
| (2024) | Home+Movies: Workshop on Domesticity and Cinema, Rascaroli, Laura (2024) Barbicania: Essay Film, Architecture as Framing, and the Non-House. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Home+Movies: Workshop on Domesticity and Cinema, University of Navarra, Spain , 08-MAY-24 - 09-MAY-24. [Details] | |
| (2023) | Reimagining the ‘City’: Legacies, Challenges, Possibilities. Cultures, Communication, Communities Conference, Rascaroli, Laura (2023) Sonic Modernities: Capitalism, Noise, and the City Essay Film. [Keynote Speaker], Reimagining the ‘City’: Legacies, Challenges, Possibilities. Cultures, Communication, Communities Conference, University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand , 30-NOV-23 - 02-DEC-23. [Details] | |
| (2023) | Reimagining the ‘City’: Legacies, Challenges, Possibilities. Cultures, Communication, Communities Conference,, Rascaroli, Laura (2023) The City Essay Film. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], Reimagining the ‘City’: Legacies, Challenges, Possibilities. Cultures, Communication, Communities Conference,, University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand , 04-DEC-23 - 04-DEC-23. [Details] | |
| (2023) | aemi Artist In Focus: Kevin Jerome Everson, Rascaroli, Laura (2023) Post-screening discussion. [Other], aemi Artist In Focus: Kevin Jerome Everson, Cork International Film Festival , 19-NOV-23 - 19-NOV-23. [Details] | |
| (2023) | Affective Intermediality, International Conference,, Rascaroli, Laura (2023) Penny Siopis’s intermedial cine-writing as post-medium film-thought. [Keynote Speaker], Affective Intermediality, International Conference,, Sapientia University of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Romania , 20-OCT-23 - 21-OCT-23. [Details] | |
| (2023) | Vilnius Documentary Film Festival, Rascaroli, Laura (2023) Presentation of Penny Siopis short film programme. [Invited Oral Presentation], Vilnius Documentary Film Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania , 22-SEP-23 - 23-SEP-23. [Details] | |
| (2023) | Personal Perspective and Essayistic Form in Nonfiction Film and Art, Rascaroli, Laura (2023) Penny Siopis’s Stylo-caméra, or the Unspeakable Subject of Cine-writing. [Keynote Speaker], Personal Perspective and Essayistic Form in Nonfiction Film and Art, Vilnius Academy of Arts – Lithuanian Culture Research Institut – Vilnius International Documentary Film Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania , 20-SEP-23 - 23-SEP-23. [Details] | |
| (2023) | Visible Evidence XXIX, Rascaroli, Laura (2023) Crossing the Line: Pietro Marcello’s Hybrid Cinema. [Keynote Speaker], Visible Evidence XXIX, University of Udine, Italy , 06-SEP-23 - 09-SEP-23. [Details] | |
| (2022) | Future Humanities Institute Inaugural Lecture Series, Rascaroli, Laura (2022) “Penny Siopis’s stylo-caméra, or the unspeakable subject of cine-writing.”. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Future Humanities Institute Inaugural Lecture Series, University College Cork , 09-NOV-22 - 09-NOV-22. [Details] | |
| (2022) | Research Seminar Series, Department of Film & Television Studies, University of Warwick, Rascaroli, Laura (2022) Penny Siopis’s stylo-caméra and the subject of cine-writing. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Research Seminar Series, Department of Film & Television Studies, University of Warwick, University of Warwick , 18-OCT-22 - 18-OCT-22. [Details] | |
| (2022) | 2022 Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Rascaroli, Laura and Paolo Saporito (2022) Bella e perduta or the (Environmental) Ethics of the Lyric Essay Film. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], 2022 Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies Conference, American University, Rome , 16-JUN-22 - 18-JUN-22. [Details] | |
| (2022) | 2022 Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Rascaroli, Laura, and Paolo Saporito (2022) Bella e perduta or the (Environmental) Ethics of the Lyric Essay Film. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], 2022 Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies Conference, American University, Rome , 16-JUN-22 - 18-JUN-22. [Details] | |
| (2022) | International Social Housing Festival, Sborgi, Anna Viola and Laura Rascaroli (2022) Mediating Housing Precarity. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], International Social Housing Festival, Aalto University, Helsinki , 14-JUN-22 - 14-JUN-22. [Details] | |
| (2022) | The Essay Film as Critical Thinking, Rascaroli, Laura (2022) Penny Siopis’s Stylo-caméra and the Subject of Cine-Writing. [Plenary Lecture], The Essay Film as Critical Thinking, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France , 09-JUN-22 - 10-JUN-22. [Details] | |
| (2022) | 17th Irish Screen Studies Seminar, Rascaroli, Laura (2022) For a semiotics of film-essayistic border images. [Keynote Speaker], 17th Irish Screen Studies Seminar, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland , 05-MAY-22 - 06-MAY-22. [Details] | |
| (2022) | The Archive on Screen: Art and Cinema Towards Visual Cultures. Doctoral Seminar Series, Rascaroli, Laura (2022) Circulation: Found footage and self-representation. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], The Archive on Screen: Art and Cinema Towards Visual Cultures. Doctoral Seminar Series, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy , 28-APR-22 - 28-APR-22. [Details] | |
| (2022) | George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture and Art History, Research Seminar Series, Rascaroli, Laura (2022) “Can you write a history?” Penny Siopis’s stylo-caméra and the subject of cine-writing. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture and Art History, Research Seminar Series, University of Aberdeen, UK (online) , 27-APR-22 - 27-APR-22. [Details] | |
| (2022) | Mother Film Festival 2022 – Caochangdi Workstation, Rascaroli, Laura (2022) Autoethnography, auto/biography, and the incommensurable subject of the essay film. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], Mother Film Festival 2022 – Caochangdi Workstation, China (online) , 24-APR-22 - 24-APR-22. [Details] | |
| (2021) | Critical Perspectives on the Films of Adam Curtis, Rascaroli, Laura (2021) Hypertextualisation: Interrogating the Archive.’. [Keynote Speaker], Critical Perspectives on the Films of Adam Curtis, University of Nottingham, UK , 08-SEP-21 - 08-SEP-21. [Details] | |
| (2021) | Department of Anthropology Masterclasses, Rascaroli, Laura (2021) The Notebook Film. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Department of Anthropology Masterclasses, University College London (online) , 10-DEC-21 - 10-DEC-21. [Details] | |
| (2021) | The NECS 2021 Conference, Transitions: Moving Images and Bodies, Rascaroli, Laura (2021) Transgressing Borders: Filming the EU between Globalization and Localization. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], The NECS 2021 Conference, Transitions: Moving Images and Bodies, University of Palermo, Italy , 07-JUN-21 - 13-JUN-21. [Details] | |
| (2021) | VE21, Rascaroli, Laura (2021) Unfolding Borders: Limitrophic Strategies of the Essay Film. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], VE21, University of Frankfurt , 15-DEC-21 - 18-DEC-21. [Details] | |
| (2020) | 'The Language of the Essay Film', Rascaroli, Laura (2020) Host, Industry Panel, with Amel Alzakout and Khaled Abdulwahed, Kevin B. Lee and Chloé Galibert-Laîné, and Iva Radivojevic. [Other], 'The Language of the Essay Film', Open City Documentary Film Festival, London , 15-NOV-20 - 15-NOV-20. [Details] | |
| (2020) | Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Nottingham, Seminar Series, Rascaroli, Laura (2020) On Film &Territory: Treading Ground with Sacro GRA. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Nottingham, Seminar Series, University of Nottingham [online] , 11-NOV-20 - 11-NOV-20. [Details] | |
| (2020) | Ethnofest – 11th Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, Rascaroli, Laura (2020) ‘The Body Won’t Close.’ Panel discussion with Mattijs van de Port and Carly Machado. [Invited Oral Presentation], Ethnofest – 11th Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, Athens [online] , 29-NOV-20 - 29-NOV-20. [Details] | |
| (2020) | Master Class and Q&A, Rascaroli, Laura (2020) ‘The Essay Film and the Intermittent Spectator.’. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Master Class and Q&A, 14th Iran International Documentary Film Festival, Tehran [online] , 19-DEC-20 - 19-DEC-20. [Details] | |
| (2019) | AFECCAV (Association française des enseignants et chercheurs en cinéma et audiovisuel) Congrès 2018, Rascaroli, Laura (2019) Borders and Borderlands: Filming Europe in the Age of Dislocation. [Keynote Speaker], AFECCAV (Association française des enseignants et chercheurs en cinéma et audiovisuel) Congrès 2018, France , 05-JUL-18 - 07-JUL-18. [Details] | |
| (2019) | Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminars and Edinburgh Film Seminar, Rascaroli, Laura (2019) Between Affect and Scepticism: Nonverbal Lyricism and the Essay Film. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminars and Edinburgh Film Seminar, University of Edinburgh , 18-MAR-19 - 18-MAR-19. [Details] | |
| (2019) | City, Essay, Film: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Urban Essay Film, Rascaroli, Laura (2019) Modular Essays, Sonic Modernities. [Keynote Speaker], City, Essay, Film: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Urban Essay Film, University College London , 07-JUN-19 - 07-JUN-19. [Details] | |
| (2018) | AFECCAV (Association française des enseignants et chercheurs en cinéma et audiovisuel) Congrès 2018, Rascaroli, Laura (2018) Borders and Borderlands: Filming Europe in the Age of Dislocation. [Keynote Speaker], AFECCAV (Association française des enseignants et chercheurs en cinéma et audiovisuel) Congrès 2018, University of Strasbourg , 05-JUL-18 - 07-JUL-18. [Details] | |
| (2018) | ‘Cinema Crossing Borders’, 23rd International Bremen Film Conference, Rascaroli, Laura (2018) ‘Unfolding Borders: Filming the EU's Territory in the Age of Globalization’. [Keynote Speaker], ‘Cinema Crossing Borders’, 23rd International Bremen Film Conference, University of Bremen / CITY 46 Cinema , 25-APR-18 - 29-APR-18. [Details] | |
| (2018) | A Day on the Essay Film: Visual Erosions, Sprouting Words, Rascaroli, Laura (2018) • ‘Compounding the Lyric Essay Film: Towards a Theory of Poetic Counter-Narrative’. [Plenary Lecture], A Day on the Essay Film: Visual Erosions, Sprouting Words, Foundation Perdu, Amsterdam , 02-DEC-18 - 02-DEC-18. [Details] | |
| (2017) | Multivoicedness in European Cinema: Representation, Industry, Politics, Rascaroli, Laura (2017) ECREA Film Studies Section Conference. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Multivoicedness in European Cinema: Representation, Industry, Politics, University College Cork , 10-NOV-17 - 11-NOV-17. [Details] | |
| (2017) | Research Seminar Series, Rascaroli, Laura (2017) Lyricism as Argumentation in the Essay Film. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Research Seminar Series, Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University , 07-DEC-17 - 07-DEC-17. [Details] | |
| (2017) | Lands, Seas, Bodies: On the Cinema of Gianfranco Rosi, Rascaroli, Laura (2017) Territory. [Plenary Lecture], Lands, Seas, Bodies: On the Cinema of Gianfranco Rosi, University of Cambridge , 24-MAY-17 - 24-MAY-17. [Details] | |
| (2017) | Essay Film and Narrative Techniques: Screenwriting Non-fiction, Rascaroli, Laura (2017) 'Narration and Counter-Narration’. [Keynote Speaker], Essay Film and Narrative Techniques: Screenwriting Non-fiction, University of York , 18-NOV-17 - 19-NOV-17. [Details] | |
| (2017) | Multivoicedness in European Cinema: Representation, Industry, Politics, Rascaroli, Laura (2017) The Lyrical Voice of the Inaudible: Pietro Marcello’s Cinema and the Poetic Argument. [Oral Presentation], Multivoicedness in European Cinema: Representation, Industry, Politics, University College Cork , 10-NOV-17 - 11-NOV-17. [Details] | |
| (2017) | Centre for Documentary Research and Practice at Queen's Event, Rascaroli, Laura (2017) How the Essay Film Thinks: Book launch and talk. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Centre for Documentary Research and Practice at Queen's Event, Queen's University Belfast , 30-OCT-17 - 30-OCT-17. [Details] | |
| (2017) | Open City Documentary Festival, Rascaroli, Laura (2017) Artist Talk: Out of Time. Laura Rascaroli in conversation with director Marc Isaacs, Sound Designer and Musician, Matej Dimlic and Editor, David Briggs. [Chair Sessions at Symposia], Open City Documentary Festival, Bargehouse, London , 09-SEP-17 - 09-SEP-17. [Details] | |
| (2017) | Italian Documentary Between Historical and Contemporary Models: An International Conference, Rascaroli, Laura (2017) ‘The Essay Cinema of Pietro Marcello: Lyricism as Argumentation.’. [Keynote Speaker], Italian Documentary Between Historical and Contemporary Models: An International Conference, State University of Milan , 19-OCT-17 - 20-OCT-17. [Details] | |
| (2016) | DOKU.ARTS 2016: International Symposium Essaydox, Rascaroli, Laura (2016) Disjunctive Narration: The Essay Film’s Thinking and Epistolarity as Argumentation. [Plenary Lecture], DOKU.ARTS 2016: International Symposium Essaydox, Berlin , 07-OCT-16 - 07-OCT-16. [Details] | |
| (2016) | European Screens 2016: An international conference on film, TV drama and the audiovisual industries in Europe, Rascaroli, Laura (2016) ‘The Transnational Thickness of Filmic Place: Millennial Visions of Europe’. [Plenary Lecture], European Screens 2016: An international conference on film, TV drama and the audiovisual industries in Europe, York, UK , 05-SEP-16 - 07-SEP-16. [Details] | |
| (2016) | Inagural event, Centre for International Film Research (CIFR), Film Department, University of Southampton, Rascaroli, Laura (2016) Round Table: Border Crossings. [Invited Oral Presentation], Inagural event, Centre for International Film Research (CIFR), Film Department, University of Southampton, Cinema Museum, London , 02-JUL-16 - 02-JUL-16. [Details] | |
| (2016) | Architecture | Essay | Film Symposium, Rascaroli, Laura (2016) ‘Framing: Aesthetics, Argument and Affect in the Architectural Essay Film’. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Architecture | Essay | Film Symposium, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London , 19-APR-16 - 19-APR-16. [Details] | |
| (2016) | Second Annual Lecture in Film Studies, University of Liverpool, Rascaroli, Laura (2016) Decentering the European Gaze: Essay Film, the Speck of Irony, and the Ethnolandscape in Ruins. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Second Annual Lecture in Film Studies, University of Liverpool, Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Liverpool , 20-APR-16 - 20-APR-16. [Details] | |
| (2016) | Centre for Film and Screen Research Seminar, Rascaroli, Laura (2016) 'The Road Twice Taken: Essay Film, the Palimpsestic Road, Diachronic Thinking’. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Centre for Film and Screen Research Seminar, University of Cambridge , 27-JAN-16 - 27-JAN-16. [Details] | |
| (2015) | CACity–Cinema and Architecture in the City Research Group, Rascaroli, Laura (2015) 'A London Counter-reading: Filming the Urban Thirdspace in Marc Isaac’s Lift’. [Keynote Speaker], CACity–Cinema and Architecture in the City Research Group, Institute of Collaborative Research for the Humanities, Queen’s University Belfast , 14-JAN-15 - 14-JAN-15. [Details] | |
| (2015) | European Cinemas, Intercultural Meetings: Aesthetics, Politics, Industry, History, ECREA Film Studies Section Conference, Rascaroli, Laura (2015) ‘The Road Twice Taken: Diachronic Europe’. [Oral Presentation], European Cinemas, Intercultural Meetings: Aesthetics, Politics, Industry, History, ECREA Film Studies Section Conference, University of Copenhagen , 13-NOV-15 - 14-NOV-15. [Details] | |
| (2015) | Film Studies Research Seminar, Rascaroli, Laura (2015) ‘The Sound Interstice: Essay Film and the Dissonance of the Neutral. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Film Studies Research Seminar, Dublin City University , 21-APR-15 - 21-APR-15. [Details] | |
| (2015) | Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image's Essay Film Festival, Rascaroli, Laura (2015) Why the Essay Film Now? Forever Modern, Anachronistic. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image's Essay Film Festival, Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, London , 24-MAR-15 - 29-MAR-15. [Details] | |
| (2015) | ECREA Film Studies Section Conference, Rascaroli, Laura (2015) European Cinemas, Intercultural Meetings: Aesthetics, Politics, Industry, History. [Conference Organising Committee Member], ECREA Film Studies Section Conference, University of Copenhagen , 13-NOV-15 - 14-NOV-15. [Details] | |
| (2015) | School of Media, Film and Music Research Seminar, Rascaroli, Laura (2015) ‘Framing: The Essay Film as Theoretical Practice’. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], School of Media, Film and Music Research Seminar, University of Sussex , 09-DEC-15 - 09-DEC-15. [Details] | |
| (2015) | MeCETES–Mediating Cultural Encounters Through European Screens, Rascaroli, Laura (2015) ‘The European Film Market’. [Invited Oral Presentation], MeCETES–Mediating Cultural Encounters Through European Screens, University of Copenhagen , 08-SEP-15 - 08-SEP-15. [Details] | |
| (2015) | Irish Museum of Modern Art Public Lectures, Rascaroli, Laura (2015) ‘Stan Douglas’s Mise en Scène: Intermedial Temporality'. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Irish Museum of Modern Art Public Lectures, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin , 22-JUL-15 - 22-JUL-15. [Details] | |
| (2015) | PLASTIK International Festival of Artists’ Moving Image, Rascaroli, Laura (2015) Expanded cinema. [Invited Oral Presentation], PLASTIK International Festival of Artists’ Moving Image, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork , 14-FEB-15 - 14-FEB-15. [Details] | |
| (2015) | PLASTIK International Festival of Artists’ Moving Image, Rascaroli, Laura (2015) Harun Farocki and the Essay Film Form. [Plenary Lecture], PLASTIK International Festival of Artists’ Moving Image, An Taibhdhearc Theatre, Galway , 07-FEB-15 - 07-FEB-15. [Details] | |
| (2015) | 5th AIM (Association of Moving Image Researchers) Annual Meeting, Rascaroli, Laura (2015) Undoing the Ethnolandscape: Essay Film and the Irony Gap. [Keynote Speaker], 5th AIM (Association of Moving Image Researchers) Annual Meeting, ISCTE-IUL, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal , 21-MAY-15 - 23-MAY-15. [Details] | |
| (2015) | Film Studies Research Seminar, Rascaroli, Laura (2015) 'The Sound Interstice: Essay Film and the Dissonance of the Neutral'. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Film Studies Research Seminar, University of Kent , 25-FEB-15 - 25-FEB-15. [Details] | |
| (2014) | Screen Studies Conference: Landscape and Environment, Rascaroli, Laura (2014) ‘Land Without Meaning: The Production of the Ethnolandscape’. [Oral Presentation], Screen Studies Conference: Landscape and Environment, University of Glasgow , 27-JUL-14 - 29-JUL-14. [Details] | |
| (2014) | Animation at the Cutting Edge: An Alphaville Symposium, Rascaroli, Laura (2014) Conference organiser. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Animation at the Cutting Edge: An Alphaville Symposium, University College Cork , 15-FEB-14 - 15-FEB-14. [Details] | |
| (2014) | Public Lecture, Irlanda Italiana, Rascaroli, Laura (2014) ‘Italian Neorealism: Reinventing the Cinema’. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Public Lecture, Irlanda Italiana, Cork City Library , 28-MAY-14 - 28-MAY-14. [Details] | |
| (2014) | ECREA—European Communication Research and Education Association 2014 Conference, Rascaroli, Laura (2014) European Cinema, the Cosmopolitan Auteur and Transnational Cinephilia. [Oral Presentation], ECREA—European Communication Research and Education Association 2014 Conference, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon , 12-NOV-14 - 15-NOV-14. [Details] | |
| (2014) | Dante Alighieri Society, Rascaroli, Laura (2014) ‘Performing the Risorgimento: Filmic Representations of a National Epic’. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Dante Alighieri Society, Cork , 24-FEB-14 - 24-FEB-14. [Details] | |
| (2014) | NECS Milan Conference 2014: Creative Energies, Creative Industries, Rascaroli, Laura (2014) ‘Stalled Movement: The Post-Eurocentric Road Movie’. [Oral Presentation], NECS Milan Conference 2014: Creative Energies, Creative Industries, Universita Cattolica, Milan , 19-JUN-14 - 21-JUN-14. [Details] | |
| (2014) | Public Lecture, The Avant Festival, Rascaroli, Laura (2014) ‘The Essay Film, the Speck of Irony, and the Ethnolandscape in Ruins’. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Public Lecture, The Avant Festival, University College Cork , 15-JUL-14 - 15-JUL-14. [Details] | |
| (2014) | Crossing Borders: Pasolini and Marginality, Rascaroli, Laura (2014) Rage in the Margin: Sonic Interstices. [Plenary Lecture], Crossing Borders: Pasolini and Marginality, Italian Institute of Culture, London , 31-OCT-14 - 31-OCT-14. [Details] | |
| (2014) | Study Day: The Self Portrait in the Moving Image, Rascaroli, Laura (2014) ‘Liquid Europe, Fluid Cinema: on Alexandr Sokurov’s Elegy of a Voyage’. [Plenary Lecture], Study Day: The Self Portrait in the Moving Image, Birkbeck Institute For The Moving Image, London , 28-FEB-14 - 01-MAR-14. [Details] | |
| (2014) | NECS Milan Conference 2014: Creative Energies, Creative Industries, Rascaroli, Laura (2014) ‘On Journal Editors and Editing’, Workshop organised by the NECSUS Editorial Board. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], NECS Milan Conference 2014: Creative Energies, Creative Industries, Universita Cattolica, Milan , 19-JUN-14 - 21-JUN-14. [Details] | |
| (2013) | Environmental Citizenship: Trans-disciplinary conversations on transitions to sustainability, Rascaroli, Laura (2013) Ecofilm: Sustainable Cinema and the Schull Film Festival’. [Oral Presentation], Environmental Citizenship: Trans-disciplinary conversations on transitions to sustainability, University College Cork , 05-SEP-13 - 06-SEP-13. [Details] | |
| (2013) | European Film Cultures: An International Conference, Rascaroli, Laura (2013) ECREA Film Studies Section Interim Conference. [Conference Organising Committee Member], European Film Cultures: An International Conference, Lund University, Sweden , 08-NOV-13 - 09-NOV-13. [Details] | |
| (2013) | BFI Public Lecture / Sight and Sound Essay Film Season, Rascaroli, Laura (2013) Essaying the Subject. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], BFI Public Lecture / Sight and Sound Essay Film Season, London, UK , 28-AUG-13 - 28-AUG-13. [Details] | |
| (2013) | Cosmopolitan Screens: 23rd International Screen Studies Conference, Rascaroli, Laura (2013) Street View: European Routes, Cosmopolitan Takes. [Plenary Lecture], Cosmopolitan Screens: 23rd International Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow , 28-JUN-13 - 30-JUN-13. [Details] | |
| (2013) | Doubt & Visual Representation, Rascaroli, Laura (2013) Panel Discussion. [Invited Oral Presentation], Doubt & Visual Representation, University College Cork , 10-MAY-13 - 11-MAY-13. [Details] | |
| (2013) | BFI/Sight and Sound Essay Film Season, Rascaroli, Laura (2013) Round table. [Invited Oral Presentation], BFI/Sight and Sound Essay Film Season, BFI, London , 28-AUG-13 - 28-AUG-13. [Details] | |
| (2013) | Visible Evidence XX, Rascaroli, Laura (2013) Essaying Ethnography as a Minor Mode. [Plenary Lecture], Visible Evidence XX, Stockholm, Sweden , 15-AUG-13 - 18-AUG-13. [Details] | |
| (2013) | European Film Cultures, ECREA Interim Conference, Rascaroli, Laura (2013) ‘European Film Cultures Today: Concluding Remarks’. [Plenary Lecture], European Film Cultures, ECREA Interim Conference, Lund University, Sweden , 08-NOV-13 - 09-NOV-13. [Details] | |
| (2013) | I Situazionisti: Teoria, Arte e Politica, Rascaroli, Laura (2013) Ancora alla deriva? Note su alcune pratiche contemporanee filmiche e locative post-situazioniste. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], I Situazionisti: Teoria, Arte e Politica, Roma Tre (Italy) , 30-MAY-13 - 30-MAY-13. [Details] | |
| (2012) | London - City of Paradox, Laura Rascaroli (2012) Dwelling in London’s Spacetime: Marc Isaac’s Lift (2001). [Invited Lectures (Conference)], London - City of Paradox, University of East London , 03-APR-12 - 05-APR-12. [Details] | |
| (2012) | Antonioni and the Arts Symposium, Rascaroli, Laura (2012) 'Antonioni After the Cinema'. [Plenary Lecture], Antonioni and the Arts Symposium, Royal Holloway, University of London , 26-OCT-12 - 26-OCT-12. [Details] | |
| (2012) | Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman in the 21st Century, Rsacaroli, Laura (2012) ‘Prefiguration and mourning: Antonioni in the era of the post-film’. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman in the 21st Century, Filmhouse Cinema, Edinburgh , 27-APR-12 - 27-APR-12. [Details] | |
| (2012) | Being European - film, television, cultural policy and everyday life. European Science Foundation (ESF) Exploratory Workshop, Rsacaroli, Laura (2012) ‘On the Mobility of Films and the Foreignness of Europe’. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], Being European - film, television, cultural policy and everyday life. European Science Foundation (ESF) Exploratory Workshop, Copenhagen , 23-MAY-12 - 25-MAY-12. [Details] | |
| (2012) | Michelangelo Antonioni: Centenary Workshop, Rascaroli, Laura (2012) ‘Michelangelo’s Last Gaze’. [Oral Presentation], Michelangelo Antonioni: Centenary Workshop, University College Cork , 24-JAN-12 - 24-JAN-12. [Details] | |
| (2012) | New Cinemas, Changing Audiences, Rascaroli, Laura (2012) ‘Is Europe foreign? National film industry and international distribution’. [Oral Presentation], New Cinemas, Changing Audiences, University College Cork , 10-MAR-12 - 10-MAR-12. [Details] | |
| (2012) | Time Networks: Screen Media and Memory, The NECS 2012 Conference, Rascaroli, Laura (2012) ‘Memory in transit: the essay film and the flitting image of the past’. [Oral Presentation], Time Networks: Screen Media and Memory, The NECS 2012 Conference, University of Lisbon , 21-JUN-12 - 23-JUN-12. [Details] | |
| (2012) | New Cinemas, Changing Audiences, Rascaroli, Laura (2012) IRCHSS Workshop. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], New Cinemas, Changing Audiences, University College Cork , 10-MAR-12 - 10-MAR-12. [Details] | |
| (2012) | Michelangelo Antonioni Centenary Workshop, Rascaroli, Laura (2012) IRCHSS Workshop. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Michelangelo Antonioni Centenary Workshop, University College Cork , 24-JAN-12 - 24-JAN-12. [Details] | |
| (2012) | Negotiating the City: Literature, Culture and Theory, Masterclass with Ian Sinclair, Rascaroli, Laura (2012) ‘A London Counter-reading: Filming the Urban Thirdspace in Marc Isaac’s Lift (2001)’. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], Negotiating the City: Literature, Culture and Theory, Masterclass with Ian Sinclair, Graduate School, College of Art Celtic Studies and Social Science, UCC , 02-FEB-12 - 03-FEB-12. [Details] | |
| (2012) | Cronaca di un autore. Convegno di studi su Michelangelo Antonioni nel centenario della sua nascita, Rascaroli, Laura (2012) ‘La sostenibilità del cinema d’autore: a proposito di Blow Up e Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives’. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Cronaca di un autore. Convegno di studi su Michelangelo Antonioni nel centenario della sua nascita, University of Ferrara, Italy , 11-DEC-12 - 13-DEC-12. [Details] | |
| (2012) | Cinema in the Interstices: Alphaville Inaugural Conference, Rascaroli, Laura (2012) ‘Essayistic thinking at the junctures of images: Arnaud des Pallières’s Drancy Avenir’. [Oral Presentation], Cinema in the Interstices: Alphaville Inaugural Conference, University College Cork , 07-SEP-12 - 09-SEP-12. [Details] | |
| (2012) | World Cinema On-Demand: Film Distribution and Education in the Streaming Media Era, Rascaroli, Laura (2012) Italy in Europe: the mutating challenges of international distribution. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], World Cinema On-Demand: Film Distribution and Education in the Streaming Media Era, Queen's University Belfast , 15-JUN-12 - 16-JUN-12. [Details] | |
| (2011) | Figurations of Italian Migration in International Cinema, Rascaroli, Laura; (2011) Fluid nation, Solid Borders: On Piero Germi's 'Il cammino della speranza' (1950). [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Figurations of Italian Migration in International Cinema, Innsbruck , 31-MAR-11 - 02-APR-11. [Details] | |
| (2011) | Documentary Now! - A Conference on the Contemporary Contexts and Possibilities of the Documentary, Rascaroli, Laura; (2011) Sonic interstices: voice-over commentary and spectatorial space. [Oral Presentation], Documentary Now! - A Conference on the Contemporary Contexts and Possibilities of the Documentary, Westminster University, London , 28-JAN-11 - 30-JAN-11. [Details] | |
| (2011) | Littérature‐monde: Now? International Workshop, Rascaroli, Laura; (2011) The limits of control: language, subtitling and travelling films. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], Littérature‐monde: Now? International Workshop, University College Cork , 14-OCT-11 - 15-OCT-11. [Details] | |
| (2011) | 150 years of the Unity of Italy, Rascaroli, Laura; (2011) Performing the Risorgimento: Filmic Representations of a National Epic. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], 150 years of the Unity of Italy, Italian Institute of Culture, Dublin , 07-FEB-11 - 07-FEB-11. [Details] | |
| (2011) | NECS 2011 Conference - Sonic Futures: Soundscapes and the Languages of Screen Media, Rascaroli, Laura; (2011) Sonic interstices: essay film, voice-over, and spectatorial space in Robert Cambrinus's 'Commentary' (2009). [Oral Presentation], NECS 2011 Conference - Sonic Futures: Soundscapes and the Languages of Screen Media, Birkbeck and King¿s College, University of London , 23-JUN-11 - 26-JUN-11. [Details] | |
| (2011) | SIS Biennial Conference, Rascaroli, Laura; (2011) Modernity, Put into Form: 'Blow-Up', Objectuality, 1960s Antonioni. [Oral Presentation], SIS Biennial Conference, University of St Andrews , 06-JUL-11 - 09-JUL-11. [Details] | |
| (2011) | Interdisciplinary Workshop on 'Debating The Italian Nation: Historical and Cultural Perspectives', Rascaroli, Laura; (2011) 'A national-popular cinema? Landscape, territory, nation, 1946-1950'. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], Interdisciplinary Workshop on 'Debating The Italian Nation: Historical and Cultural Perspectives', NUI Galway , 27-MAY-11 - 27-MAY-11. [Details] | |
| (2011) | Department of Film, Television and Digital Media Seminar Series, Rascaroli, Laura; (2011) Ideas of Europe in Alexandr Sukurov's Elegy of a Voyage. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Department of Film, Television and Digital Media Seminar Series, Universidad de Navarra, Spain , 09-SEP-11 - 09-SEP-11. [Details] | |
| (2011) | Technologies of the Self: New Departures in Self-Inscription, Rascaroli, Laura; (2011) Conference Organising Committee Member. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Technologies of the Self: New Departures in Self-Inscription, UCC , 02-SEP-11 - 03-SEP-11. [Details] | |
| (2011) | Debating the Italian Nation: Historical and Cultural Perspectives. Interdisciplinary Workshop, Rascaroli, Laura; (2011) A national-popular cinema? Landscape, territory, nation, 1946-1950. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], Debating the Italian Nation: Historical and Cultural Perspectives. Interdisciplinary Workshop, NUI Galway , 27-MAY-11 - 27-MAY-11. [Details] | |
| (2010) | Transnational, Transcultural, Transmedial: European Cinema Today, Rascaroli, Laura; (2010) Thinking Motion, Medium, Europe: On Sukurov's 'Elegy of a Voyage' (2001). [Plenary Lecture], Transnational, Transcultural, Transmedial: European Cinema Today, University College Cork , 14-MAY-10 - 15-MAY-10. [Details] | |
| (2010) | Saving Private Reels. An International Conference on the Presentation, Appropriation and Re-contextualisation of the Amateur Moving Image, Dr Barry Monahan, Dr Laura Rascaroli, Dr Gwenda Young ; (2010) Conference Organising Committee Member. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Saving Private Reels. An International Conference on the Presentation, Appropriation and Re-contextualisation of the Amateur Moving Image, UCC , 17-SEP-10 - 19-SEP-10. [Details] | |
| (2010) | Invited Research Seminar, University of Central Lancashire, Rascaroli, Laura; (2010) Fashioning Modernity: Blow Up, Objectuality, 1960s Antonioni. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Invited Research Seminar, University of Central Lancashire, University of Central lancashire , 05-MAY-10 - 05-MAY-10. [Details] | |
| (2010) | Saving Private Reels: An International Conference on the Presentation, Appropriation and Re-contextualisation of the Amateur Moving Image, Young, G, Rascaroli, L, Monahan, Barry; (2010) International conference on amateur filmmaking, home movies, archives and independent cinema. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Saving Private Reels: An International Conference on the Presentation, Appropriation and Re-contextualisation of the Amateur Moving Image, University College Cork , 17-SEP-10 - 19-SEP-10. [Details] | |
| (2009) | IMAGEing Reality: Representing the Real in Film, Television and New Media, Rascaroli, Laura; (2009) Remapping the Neorealist Nation: The Rhetorics of the Road to Realism. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], IMAGEing Reality: Representing the Real in Film, Television and New Media, Universidad de Navarra, Spain , 22-OCT-09 - 24-OCT-09. [Details] | |
| (2009) | Cinema Italiano e Culture Europee, XV Convegno internazionale di Studi Cinematografici, Rascaroli, Laura; (2009) Cinema anno zero: incontri culturali e la messa in forma del moderno. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Cinema Italiano e Culture Europee, XV Convegno internazionale di Studi Cinematografici, University Roma Tre, Roma, Italy , 13-DEC-09 - 16-DEC-09. [Details] | |
| (2009) | XVI International Film Studies Conference, Permanent Seminar on History of Film Theories, In the Very Beginning, at the Very End, Rascaroli, Laura; (2009) The essay film as sublime theoretical paradox: birth and evolution of an idea. [Oral Presentation], XVI International Film Studies Conference, Permanent Seminar on History of Film Theories, In the Very Beginning, at the Very End, University of Udine, Italy , 24-MAR-09 - 26-MAR-09. [Details] | |
| (2008) | Italian Contemporary Cinema: Old and New Tendencies. An International Conference, Laura Rascaroli; (2008) Through a Glass Darkly: Spectacle and Performativity in Nanni Moretti's 'Il caimano'. [Plenary Lecture], Italian Contemporary Cinema: Old and New Tendencies. An International Conference, University of Manchester , 13-JUN-08 - 13-JUN-08. [Details] | |
| (2008) | Prises de rue ' Street Takes: Streets and Roads in European Cinemas 'Rues et routes dans les cinemas europeens International conference, Project on European Cinemas (PEC, Laura Rascaroli; (2008) Traversing frontiers: crossroads and limitations of contemporary European transnational cinema. [Plenary Lecture], Prises de rue ' Street Takes: Streets and Roads in European Cinemas 'Rues et routes dans les cinemas europeens International conference, Project on European Cinemas (PEC, Montreal, McGill University , 18-SEP-08 - 20-SEP-08. [Details] | |
| (2008) | Invited Research Seminar, Universidad de Navarra, Laura Rascaroli; (2008) Landscape Year Zero: Neorealist Ruins and the Reality Effect. [Invited Oral Presentation], Invited Research Seminar, Universidad de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, Spain , 28-NOV-08 - 28-NOV-08. [Details] | |
| (2008) | Visible Evidence XV, Rascaroli, Laura; (2008) Non-fictional image manipulation and self-fashioning in the digital age: Antonioni's 'The Gaze of Michelangelo'. [Oral Presentation], Visible Evidence XV, University of Lincoln , 04-AUG-08 - 08-AUG-08. [Details] | |
| (2008) | Italian Film Study Day, Laura Rascaroli; (2008) Pier Paolo Pasolini and the notebook as film that cannot be made: a self-portrait in lack and disorder. [Plenary Lecture], Italian Film Study Day, Queen Mary, London , 25-JAN-08 - 25-JAN-08. [Details] | |
| (2008) | Homage to Antonioni - A one-day symposium dedicated to the work of Michleangelo Antonioni, 1912-2007, Laura Rascaroli; (2008) The last gaze of Michelangelo: Antonioni's final self-portrait. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Homage to Antonioni - A one-day symposium dedicated to the work of Michleangelo Antonioni, 1912-2007, University of Sussex , 23-FEB-08 - 23-FEB-08. [Details] | |
| (2008) | 13th International Bremen Film Conference: Cinema Dreams: Imaginations, Arrangements, and Cultural Histories of Film, Laura Rascaroli; (2008) One's nightmare of one's self: filmic self-portraiture between document and dream. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], 13th International Bremen Film Conference: Cinema Dreams: Imaginations, Arrangements, and Cultural Histories of Film, Bremen , 17-JAN-08 - 20-JAN-08. [Details] | |
| (2007) | Postgraduate Film Studies Symposium: Image, Identity and Culture in Narrative and Documentary Cinema, Laura Rascaroli; (2007) Organiser. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Postgraduate Film Studies Symposium: Image, Identity and Culture in Narrative and Documentary Cinema, UCC , 30-MAR-07 - 31-MAR-07. [Details] | |
| (2007) | Telling Stories: The Cinematic Essay, Rascaroli, Laura; (2007) 'Farocki's images of the world: the inscription of subjectivity in the essay film'. [Oral Presentation], Telling Stories: The Cinematic Essay, Loughborough University School of Art and Design , 09-FEB-07 - 30-DEC-99. [Details] | |
| (2007) | Il lavoro sul film (iv). Analisi e storia culturale del cinema: nascita e morte dell'esperienza filmica. A cura di Francesco Casetti, Rascaroli, Laura; (2007) La trasformazione dell'esperienza museale: nuovo spettatore cinematografico, nuove tecnologie della memoria. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Il lavoro sul film (iv). Analisi e storia culturale del cinema: nascita e morte dell'esperienza filmica. A cura di Francesco Casetti, University of Turin, Italy , 05-JUN-07 - 05-JUN-07. [Details] | |
| (2007) | NECS - European Network for Film and Media Studies, Rascaroli, Laura; (2007) Chris Marker's Digital Subject: Museums, Databases, Computer Games. [Oral Presentation], NECS - European Network for Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna , 20-JUN-07 - 23-JUN-07. [Details] | |
| (2007) | Visible Evidence, 14th Edition, Rascaroli, Laura; (2007) Performance and negotiation: Jean-Luc Godard plays Jean-Luc Godard. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Visible Evidence, 14th Edition, Bochum, Germany , 18-DEC-07 - 20-DEC-07. [Details] | |
| (2006) | Cinemas, Identities and Beyond. St. Andrews-Glasgow Postgraduate Conference, Rascaroli, Laura; (2006) Invited Guest and Academic Convener. [Invited Oral Presentation], Cinemas, Identities and Beyond. St. Andrews-Glasgow Postgraduate Conference, Centre for Film Studies, University of St. Andrews , 10-NOV-06 - 10-NOV-06. [Details] | |
| (2006) | Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe, Rascaroli, Laura; (2006) Off-target journeys: the crisis of home in 'Code Unknown' and 'The Last Resort'. [Oral Presentation], Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe, Lincoln College, Oxford , 06-JUL-06 - 08-JUL-06. [Details] | |
| (2005) | The Cause of Cosmopolitanism in Europe and Beyond: Biennial conference of the National Committee for Modern Languages, Literary and Cultural Studies, Royal Irish Academy, Laura Rascaroli; (2005) Organiser. [Conference Organising Committee Member], The Cause of Cosmopolitanism in Europe and Beyond: Biennial conference of the National Committee for Modern Languages, Literary and Cultural Studies, Royal Irish Academy, University College Cork , 11-NOV-05 - 12-NOV-05. [Details] | |
| (2005) | The Cause of Cosmopolitanism in Europe and Beyond, Prof. Patrick O'Donovan, Dr Laura Rascaroli; (2005) Biennial conference of the National Committee for Modern Languages, Literary and Cultural Studies, Royal Irish Academy. [Conference Organising Committee Member], The Cause of Cosmopolitanism in Europe and Beyond, UCC , 11-NOV-05 - 11-DEC-05. [Details] | |
| (2005) | From the National to the Trans-National: European film and television in transition, Rascaroli, Laura; (2005) Scaling spaces: from local to global in Robert Guédiguian's cinema. [Invited Oral Presentation], From the National to the Trans-National: European film and television in transition, University of Warwick , 07-MAY-05 - 30-DEC-99. [Details] | |
| (2005) | The Cause of Cosmopolitanism in Europe and Beyond: Biennial conference of the National Committee for Modern Languages, Literary and Cultural Studies, Royal Irish Academy, Rascaroli, Laura; (2005) Nomadism of Neorealism: Cultural and Georgraphical Journeys. [Oral Presentation], The Cause of Cosmopolitanism in Europe and Beyond: Biennial conference of the National Committee for Modern Languages, Literary and Cultural Studies, Royal Irish Academy, UCC , 11-NOV-05 - 12-NOV-05. [Details] | |
| (2005) | Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2005 Conference, Rascaroli, Laura; (2005) Home and Away: the Ground Zero of transnational identities in Nanni Moretti's 'The Last Customer'. [Oral Presentation], Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2005 Conference, London , 31-MAR-05 - 03-APR-05. [Details] | |
| (2004) | Irish Film Institute Lectures, Rascaroli, Laura; (2004) Dear Diary. [Invited Oral Presentation], Irish Film Institute Lectures, Irish Film Institute, Dublin , 08-MAR-04 - 30-DEC-99. [Details] | |
| (2003) | Film Musicals: From the Classical Era to Postmodern Cinema, Morris, Christopher; Young, Gwenda; Rascaroli, Laura; (2003) Organiser. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Film Musicals: From the Classical Era to Postmodern Cinema, Cork , 19-SEP-03 - 20-SEP-03. [Details] | |
| (2003) | The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, UCC, Ross, Silvia; Chu, Mark and Rascaroli, Laura; (2003) 'The Development and Delivery of a Team Taught Course and the Portfolio Experience'. [Oral Presentation], The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, UCC, UCC , 23-MAY-03 - 24-MAY-03. [Details] | |
| (2003) | University of Salford research Seminar, Rascaroli, Laura; (2003) Dear Diary: The fictional autobiography of citizen Nanni Moretti. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], University of Salford research Seminar, University of Salford , 28-OCT-03 - 30-DEC-99. [Details] | |
| (2003) | Film Musicals: From the Classical Era to Postmodern Cinema, Dr Christopher Morris, Dr Laura Rascaroli, Dr Gwenda Young; (2003) International Conference organisation. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Film Musicals: From the Classical Era to Postmodern Cinema, UCC , 19-SEP-03 - 20-SEP-03. [Details] | |
| (2002) | Italian Cinema-New Directions, Rascaroli, Laura; (2002) Mazzacurati: Side Roads and Borderlines - the New Italian Road Movie. [Invited Oral Presentation], Italian Cinema-New Directions, Cornerhouse, Manchester , 08-JUN-02 - 30-DEC-99. [Details] | |
| (2002) | Re-imagining Communities, Rascaroli, Laura; (2002) We are the same! We are different!: Nanni Moretti's cinema and the leftwing community in contemporary Italy. [Oral Presentation], Re-imagining Communities, Lancaster University , 23-MAY-02 - 25-MAY-02. [Details] | |
| (2002) | Italian Department Research Seminar, NUIG, Rascaroli, Laura; (2002) On Nanni Moretti's Vespa: movement in 'Dear Diary'. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Italian Department Research Seminar, NUIG, Department of Italian, National University of Ireland, Galway , 30-OCT-02 - 30-DEC-99. [Details] | |
| (2002) | The Italian Public Lecture Series 2002/03, NUIG, Rascaroli, Laura; (2002) Border demarcations: Italy and Eastern Europe in recent Italian cinema. [Plenary Lecture], The Italian Public Lecture Series 2002/03, NUIG, National University of Ireland, Galway , 29-OCT-02 - 30-DEC-99. [Details] | |
| (2002) | AISLLI 2002 Annual Conference, Rascaroli, Laura; (2002) Strade di confine: Italia e Europa orientale nel cinema italiano degli anni novanta. [Oral Presentation], AISLLI 2002 Annual Conference, Università di Trieste , 29-NOV-02 - 30-NOV-02. [Details] | |
| (2001) | Screen Studies Conference, Rascaroli, Laura; (2001) Re-enchanting the city in ruins: postmodern Marseilles in Robert Guédiguian's 'Marius et Jeannette'. [Oral Presentation], Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow , 29-JUN-01 - 01-JUL-01. [Details] | |
| (2000) | Environmental Values, Rascaroli, Laura; (2000) Chaos and the city: postmodern London in Jasmin Dizdar's 'Beautiful People' and Michael Winterbottom's 'Wonderland'. [Oral Presentation], Environmental Values, UCC , 23-MAY-00 - 25-MAY-00. [Details] | |
| (2000) | City and Identity. The Italian City in the Industrial Era, Rascaroli, Laura; (2000) A present and a true city? Naples modern and postmodern in Mario Martone's cinema. [Oral Presentation], City and Identity. The Italian City in the Industrial Era, University College London , 24-NOV-00 - 25-NOV-00. [Details] | |
| (1999) | Frontiers of Memory, Rascaroli, Laura; (1999) Dreaming the past. Spaces of private and collective memory in Alain Resnais' 'Providence'. [Oral Presentation], Frontiers of Memory, Institute of Education, London , 17-SEP-99 - 18-SEP-99. [Details] | |
| (1998) | Screen Studies Conference, Rascaroli, Laura; (1998) Back to the Present. Cinema as Time Machine in 'Strange Days' and 'Twelve Monkeys'. [Oral Presentation], Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow , 03-JUL-98 - 05-JUL-98. [Details] | |
| (1998) | Cross-Currents in Literature and Film: 'Space', Rascaroli, Laura; (1998) Out there in the icy universe. Towards a Topography of 'Providence'. [Oral Presentation], Cross-Currents in Literature and Film: 'Space', UCC , 24-APR-98 - 26-APR-98. [Details] | |
| (1998) | Irish Film Institute, Rascaroli, Laura; (1998) Movement, Rhythm, Action (Films). [Invited Oral Presentation], Irish Film Institute, Irish Film Institute, Dublin , 08-DEC-98 - 30-DEC-99. [Details] | |
| (1997) | Cross-Currents in Literature: 'Metafiction', Rascaroli, Laura; (1997) Strange Visions: Kathryn Bigelow's Metafiction. [Oral Presentation], Cross-Currents in Literature: 'Metafiction', UCC , 25-MAR-97 - 26-MAR-97. [Details] | |
| (1997) | 1998 Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Rascaroli, Laura; (1997) Invisible Visions: POV, Perception and the Self in Kathryn Bigelow's Cinema. [Oral Presentation], 1998 Society for Cinema Studies Conference, San Diego, USA , 04-APR-97 - 07-APR-97. [Details] |
Committees
| Committee | Function | From / To | |
|---|---|---|---|
| School Executive Management Committee, School of Film, Music & Theatre | Chair | 2021 / 2023 | |
| College Executive Management Committee, CACSSS | Member | 2021 / 2023 | |
| University Lecturer Promotion and Establishment Board | Member | 2020 / 2021 | |
| Adjunct Appointments Committee, College of Science, Engineering and Food Science | Member | 2016 / 2021 | |
| Academic Council | Member | 2014 / | |
| Board of Film Studies, UCC | Co-Chair | 2003 / | |
| Royal Irish Academy National Committee for Modern Language, Literary and Cultural Studies | Member | 2004 / 2008 | |
| Granary Theatre Committee | Member | 1997 / 2000 | |
| IRCHSS Post-Graduate Government of Ireland Scholarship Renewals Committee | Member | 2009 / 2012 | |
| CACSSS Research Committee | Member representing the SLLC | 2012 / 2013 | |
| CACSSS College Executive Management Committee | Elected member | 2011 / 2015 | |
| CACSSS Research Leave Commitee | Elected member | 2011 / 2015 |
Employment
| Employer | Position | From / To | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dept. of Italian, University College Cork | Senior Lecturer | 02-OCT-06 / 31-AUG-13 | |
| University College Cork | Lecturer | 02-JAN-96 / 01-JAN-06 | |
| University College Cork | Foreign Demonstrator | 02-JAN-95 / 01-JAN-96 | |
| Università Cattolica, Milan | Cultore della materia (P/T) | 01-JAN-93 / 01-JAN-95 | |
| Film and Screen Media, University College Cork | Senior Lecuturer | 01-SEP-13 / |
Education
| Year | Institution | Qualification | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Universita' Cattolica | Laurea in Lettere Moderne | Humanities, specialising in Social Communications and Film Studies | |
| 2014 | NUI | DLitt | Higher Degree on Published Work |
Journal Activities
| Journal | Role | To / From | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studies In Documentary Film | Member of Advisory Board | 01-JAN-13 - 31-JAN-16 | |
| Studies In Documentary Film | Editor | 31-JAN-16 - | |
| Aniki: Portuguese Journal Of The Moving Image | Member of Advisory Board | 01-JAN-15 - | |
| Alphaville: Journal Of Film And Screen Media | Member of Editorial Board | 01-JAN-11 - | |
| Comunicazioni Sociali | Member of Editorial Board | 01-MAY-12 - | |
| Journal Of Italian Cinema And Media Studies | Member of Editorial Board | 01-OCT-11 - | |
| Italian Studies | Member of Editorial Board | 01-JAN-10 - 01-JAN-16 | |
| Screen | Member of Advisory Board | 01-JUN-14 - |
Other Activities
| Description | |
|---|---|
Member of Academic Advisory Board, 'Mediating Cultural Encounters Through European Screens', HERA-funded project, Prof. Andrew Higson, University of York (PI), 2013–16. | |
Member of Advisory Board, AIM: Associação de Investigadores da Imagem em Movimento, 2015– | |
Visiting Professorship, Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV (EICTV), San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba. Maestría Cine Ensayo, 60 hours teaching. 21 March – 1 April 2016. | |
Member of Scientific Committee, Research Project "Self Media Lab. Scritture, Performance, Tecnologie del Sé", Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università degli studi di Pavia (Italy). 26 March 2013– | |
External Examiner, Film Studies Single and Combined Honours, Oxford Brookes, 2008-2013. | |
Member of International Advisory Board, IMAGEing Reality: Representing the Real in Film, Television and New Media, Universidad de Navarra, Spain, 22-24 October 2009 | |
Visiting Professor, Università Cattolica, Milan (Italy), 2004/2005 | |
Member of the International Editorial Board of 24 Frames - Wallflower Critical Guides to National and Regional Cinemas | |
Reviewer of manuscripts and book proposals for presses including: Oxford University Press; Edinburgh University Press; Minnesota University Press; Wallflower Press; Berghan; University of Toronto Press; Continuum; St Andrews Film Studies; Bloomsbury Academic; Palgrave. | |
Reviewer for journals including: Screen; Cinema Journal; Studies in European Cinema; New Media and Society; Film-Philosophy; Studies in Documentary Film; Studies in Eastern European Cinema; Image [&] Narrative; Comunicación y Sociedad; Italian Studies; Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies; Comunicazioni Sociali; ARTMargins. |
Teaching Activities
Teaching Interests
Film Theory; European cinema (modern and contemporary); Documentary Cinema; Realism in Film; Cinema and Modernism; Postmodern Cinema; Visual Culture; Cinema, Identity and Society; Space and Movement in Film
Recent Postgraduates
| Graduation Year | Student Name | Institution | Degree Type | Thesis Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | John McLaughlin | University College Cork | PHD | Discourse formation in Architecture Exhibitions: An Oligoptical Approach. | |
| 2024 | James Mulvey | University College Cork | PHD | Essaying the portrait: encountering the other in the essay portrait film | |
| 2023 | Michael Holly | University College Cork | PHD | Performative Feedback Filmmaking: Participatory Documentary and Creative Self-Representation in the Community | |
| 2022 | Humberto Saldahna | UCC | PHD | The Cosmopolitan Aspect of Brazilian Cinema: Encountering the Other, Forging Vernacular Worlds | |
| 2016 | Chen Yuanyuan | University College Cork | PHD | Rethinking the Chinese School: Western Modernist Influences on Chinese Animation, 1980s–2000s | |
| 2014 | Abigail Keating | University College Cork | PHD | Locating the Transnational: Representations and Aesthetics of the Urban Periphery in Contemporary European Cinema | |
| 2013 | Jill Murphy | University College Cork | PHD | Hoc est enim corpus meum: Christian Art and Passion Iconography in the Work of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Jean-Luc Godard | |
| 2012 | Aidan Power | University College Cork | PHD | Continental Drifts: Travel and Transition in Post-National European Cinema | |
| 2010 | Stefano Odorico | University College Cork | PHD | Semiotics and (non)fiction. A semio-pragmatic analysis of documentary cinema | |
| 2009 | Marian Hurley | University College Cork | PHD | Reworking the Neorealist Myths: Resistance Identities in Italian Cinema | |
| 2009 | Stefano Baschiera | University College Cork | PHD | Pasolini, Bertolucci, Bellocchio: Reframing Space in Italian New Wave Cinema |
Contact details
- Professor
- l.rascaroli@ucc.ie
- Film and Screen Media
University College Cork
Cork, Ireland - +353(21)4902471