School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Film Studies

Dr Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli (Senior Lecturer)

MA& PhD (University of California, Los Angeles)

Email: k.ravetto@ed.ac.uk

Research interests:

• Film philosophy, and theories of the digital
• Digital art and experimental cinema
• The politics of representing fascism and “The Final Solution” in visual culture
• Representations and theorizations of sexual violence in film and mainstream media
• The aesthetics of surveillance
• The relation of image to gesture and experience in film and digital media theory

Main research interests: A cluster of related questions has informed my readings of film, installation art, and the new media. I am deeply interested in the problem of representing and theorizing the violence produced by nation building, ethnocentrism, and sexism in a manner that does not play into a vicious cycle where moralism, media images, and language produce their own forms of violence. This research has resulted in my current book project, “Mythopoetic Cinema on the Margins of Europe.” My interest in the “digital uncanny” and the culture of surveillance has inspired “Recoded” -- the large international conference on the politics and landscapes of new media that I have co-organized at the University of Aberdeen in April 2008 (www.abdn.ac.uk/modernthought/recoded/).

I welcome postgraduate applications relating to my research interests in all forms of cinema, video and digital media.

Selected Publications:

Book

• The Unmaking of Fascist Aesthetics, (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2001), ISBN: 13: 978-0-8166-3743-0

Articles & Book Chapters:

• "The Visual Grammar of Suffering: Pia Lindman Performing The New York Times," Performance Arts Journal, V. 28, n. 84, September 2006, pp. 77-92.
• "Russian Ark: Floating on Europe’s Borders," Film Quarterly, Vol. 59, no. 1, Fall, 2005, pp. 18-26.
• "Reframing Europe’s Double Border" Aniko Irme ed., East European Cinemas (New York: Routledge, 2005) pp. 274-295.
• "The Circus of the Self: Fellini’s 8 1/2," Film Analysis: The New Norton Anthology, Jeff Geiger and Randy Rutsky eds. (New York: Norton, 2005), pp. 582-601.
• "Laughing into the Abyss: Representing Balkanization in Post-Soviet Cinema," Screen, vol. 44, no. 4, Winter 2003. pp. 445-464.
• "Heretical Marxism: Pasolini’s Cinema Impopolare" From Marx to Madonna, Randy Rutsky and Brad McDonald eds., (New York: SUNY Press, 2003), pp. 225-248.
• "Frenchifying Film Studies: Projecting Lacan onto the Feminist Scene," French Theory in America, Sande Cohen and Sylvère Lotringer, eds. (New York: Routledge, 2000), pp. 237-257.
• "Shaking Down LA Cool: Hopping Up Neo-noir," Emergences, vol. 9, no. 2, 1999, pp. 207-227.
• "Cinema, Spectacle and the Unmaking of Sadomasochist Aesthetics," Annali d'italianistica, vol. 16, 1998, pp. 261-281.
• "Mytho-poetic Cinema," Third Text, no. 43, Summer 1998, pp. 43-57.

Forthcoming Publications:

• "Everything You Wanted to Know About David Lynch, but Should Be Afraid to Ask Slavoj Zizek," Freud and Fundamentalism, Stathis Gourgouris, ed. (forthcoming, Fordham University Press).

Works in Progress:

• Mytho-poetic Cinema on the Margins of Europe (Book manuscript).
• Spectres of the Digital: Landscapes and Politics of New Media (Edited Volume manuscript).
• "Shadowed by Images: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and the Art of Surveillance " (article).
• "Vertigo and the Vertiginous History of Film Theory" (article)

Current Teaching Interests

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