Professor Catherine O'Rawe
B.A.(Oxon.), M.A.(Tor.), Ph.D.(Cantab.)
Current positions
Professor of Italian Film and Culture
Department of Italian
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Research interests
Her principal research interest lies in Italian cinema. She is the author of The Non-Professional Actor. Italian Neorealist Cinema and Beyond (Bloomsbury, 2023), and Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). She is co-author of Italian Cinema Audiences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), and (with Jacqueline Reich) of Divi: la mascolinita' nel cinema italiano (Donzelli, 2015), and of articles and chapters on contemporary and post-war Italian cinema.
She is currently Co-Investigator on the European Research Council-funded project Studiotec: Film Studios: Infrastructure, Culture, Innovation in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, 1930-60 https://studiotec.info/
She was previously Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded research project, 'In Search of Italian Cinema Audiences'. http://italiancinemaaudiences.org/.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Rework of Stardom and Performance in Italian Neorealist Cinema, 1945-53.
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of ItalianDates
01/09/2017 to 30/11/2018
In Search of Italian Cinema
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of ItalianDates
01/09/2013 to 31/12/2016
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
03/01/2023The Non-professional Child Actor in Neorealism
Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies
Elsa de’ Giorgi: Storia, discorsi e memorie del cinema, Mariapia Comand (2022)
Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies
The Many Meanings of Mina
Modern Italy
The Many Meanings of Mina: Popular Music Stardom in Post-war Italy by Rachel Haworth, Bristol, Intellect Press, 2022, xix + 240 pp., £80.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-789-38560-1
Modern Italy
The Non-Professional Actor. Italian Neorealist Cinema and Beyond
The Non-Professional Actor. Italian Neorealist Cinema and Beyond