Editorial Board
Founding Members: Laura Rascaroli, Gwenda Young, Marian Hurley, Abigail Keating, Deborah Mellamphy, Jill Moriarty, Jill Murphy, Aidan Power, Stefano Odorico
Current Editorial Board
Laura Rascaroli (Journal Director and General Editor) is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at University College Cork. She is the author, in collaboration with Ewa Mazierska, of From Moscow to Madrid: European Cities, Postmodern Cinema (2003), The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries (2004), and Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie (2006). Her monograph, The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film, was published by Wallflower Press in 2009. Most recently, she has co-edited the volumes The Cause of Cosmopolitanism: Dispositions, Models, Transformations (Peter Lang, 2011) with Patrick O’Donovan, and Antonioni: Centenary Essays (BFI, 2011) with John David Rhodes. Research areas include modern and contemporary European cinema, filmic realism, communication, subjectivity, self-representation, authorship, spectatorship, and non-fiction film.
Gwenda Young (Journal Director) a lecturer in Film Studies in University College Cork. She has contributed articles to a range of US and European journals and to the recent collections, American Cinema of the 1920s: Themes and Variations ed. Lucy Fischer (2009) and Screening Irish America ed. Ruth Barton (2009). Her monograph on American director Clarence Brown will be published in 2012. She has also co-edited a collection (with Eibhear Walshe) on the Anglo-Irish writer, Molly Keane (2005). Her research interests include: American silent cinema (especially 1920s); the Jazz Age in film; ethnicity in film; Irish American cinema; classical Hollywood cinema; American cinema post 1960; and selected directors such as Maurice Tourneur, Jacques Tourneur, Marshall Neilan, Clarence Brown, and David Cronenberg.
Pierluigi Ercole is an IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Cork working on the project entitled Projecting the Nation: Italian Cinema, Propaganda and Little Fascist Italies in Britain and Ireland. Pierluigi has taught at the University of East Anglia and at the University of Sussex, and he has published a number of essays on US and Italian documentary filmmakers. His research on Italian diaspora, film culture and the circulation of Italian films during the silent period has been written up for a number of publications including M. Boria and L. Risso, Laboratorio di nuova ricerca: Investigating Gender, Translation and Culture in Italian Studies (2007), R. Maltby et al, Cinema, Audiences and Modernity: European Perspectives on Film Cultures and Cinema Going (2011) and G. Bertellini, Silent Italian Cinema: A Reader (forthcoming). Research areas include: early cinema, audiences and reception studies, race and ethnicity, Italian cinema, documentary, cinephilia and digital media.
Marian Hurley completed her PhD at University College Cork, and her thesis investigated the representation of the anti-Fascist Resistance in Italian film from the points of view of national identity and its dialogue with culture, and national film history. She has published on depictions of gender and national identity in Italian film, and her research interests include neorealism, political film, memory and identity in film, and urban and rural spaces in Italian cinema. Current research projects include a study of the representation of the city in 1960s popular Italian film and an appraisal of filmic and literary citation in recent cinematic representations of political violence in Italy.
Abigail Keating (Web Designer and Content Editor) is a PhD candidate in Film Studies at University College Cork, with a thesis entitled Locating the Transnational: Representations and Aesthetics of the City in Contemporary European Cinema. Her publications include articles on transnational film, cinematic Dublin, Italian documentary, Irish-language media, interactive home movies, and Web 2.0, as well as contributions to Intellect’s Directory of World Cinema series. She has worked as a video editor on a number of non-commercial projects, as a research assistant and video editor on the nationally funded Capturing the Nation: Irish Home Movies, 1930-1970, and teaches on the MA in Film Studies at UCC. Her research interests include: European cinema(s); space, place and the city in film; digital media; non-fiction; "dotcomumentary"; and Web 2.0.
Deborah Mellamphy completed her PhD at University College Cork in 2010. Her thesis is entitled Hollyweird: Gender Transgression in the Collaborations of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Film Studies at UCC, and has published journal articles in Widescreen and Film and Film Culture, as well as a book chapter in Dexter and Philosophy. She has written chapters in forthcoming publications on Mamma Mia!, on the links between video games and cinema, and on the cultural study of video games around the world. Her research interests include stardom and performance in Hollywood cinema, television studies, and video game studies.
Ian Murphy is a PhD in Film Studies candidate at University College Cork, where he teaches poetry, fiction and film at the School of English. He holds a BA in English and Philosophy and an MA in Film Studies, and his writing has featured in Scope, Bright Lights Film Journal and The Weary Blues Journal of Art and Literature. His research interests include sound, spectatorship, performance and continental philosophy.
Jill Murphy (Secretary of the Board) is a doctoral candidate at University College Cork and tutors on the MA programme in Film Studies at the college. Her research focuses on the intersection between art and film, particularly as regards Passion iconography. Forthcoming publications include articles in the Journal of Screenwriting and Artefact: Journal of the Irish Association of Art Historians. She has also contributed a chapter on Pier Paolo Pasolini for Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema Volume II (Cambridge Scholars Press, Forthcoming 2011).
Aidan Power is a final year PhD candidate in Film Studies at University College Cork. His thesis, under the supervision of Dott. Laura Rascaroli, is entitled: Continental Shifts: Travel and Transition in Contemporary European Cinema. His research interests include, amongst others: travel cinema, national cinema, transnationalism, Westerns, science fiction and Classical Hollywood. In addition to presenting his work at conferences across Ireland, Britain and mainland Europe, he has published on science fiction cinema and the cinema of Michael Haneke.
Stefano Odorico is a doctor in film studies and a documentary film director. He has published a number of articles in international journals and anthologies about film and media theory, film practice, cinema technology, documentary studies, urban spaces in film, new media and interactive productions.
Jessica Shine is currently pursuing a PhD in University College Cork’s School of Music (under the supervision of Dr. Christopher Morris) on the topic of music, noise and isolation in the films of Gus Van Sant. Prior to this, she completed a BA in History and English, and an MA in Film Studies at UCC, with a dissertation topic on music and race in Disney cartoons. She has presented her work on Van Sant at the Society for Musicology in Ireland, York St. John University UK, and at the College of Arts and Film Studies postgraduate conferences at UCC. She is currently working on a side project that focuses on music and murder in the television series Dexter. Her research interests include: music and race in film musicals; music, trauma and isolation in film and television; and animation and music.