Laura Rascaroli

Laura Rascaroli

Laura Rascaroli is Professor of Film and Screen Media at University College Cork, Ireland. She is the author and editor of a number of volumes including The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film (2009), Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie (2006), co-written with Ewa Mazierska, and Antonioni: Centenary Essays (2011), co-edited with John David Rhodes. Her latest book, How the Essay Film Thinks, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. She is general editor of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media. Twitter: @larasca19

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3

Re/framing the City of Cinema

Laura Rascaroli on how the essay film's metahistorical nature, combined with the characteristics of post-modern space/time, produce a distinct treatment of the city as palimpsest.
no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3

The Diachronic Flâneur

Is the critical gaze on the city always a wandering gaze? Laura Rascaroli works through questions of usage and explores how the essay film thinks through its practices.