Richard Raskin

Richard Raskin
Født 1941. Ph.D. og Dr. Phil. lektor emeritus ved Afdeling for Medievidenskab og Journalistik, Aarhus Universitet. Blandt hans bøger: The Functional Analysis of Art (1982), Alain Resnais’s Nuit etBrouillard (1987), Life is Like a Glass of Tea: Studies of Classic Jewish Jokes (1992), Kortfilmen som fortælling (2001), The Art of the Short Fiction Film: A Shot-by-Shot Study of Nine Modern Classics (2002) og A Child at Gunpoint: A Case Study in the Life of a Photo (2004), Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto og With Raised Hands – En filmbog og DVD (2013), Life is Like a Glass of Tea. Studies of Classic Jewish Jokes. New expanded edition (2015), Making Things Happen: On Casablanca and Other World War II Icons (2017), Seashell Beauty and the Concept of Nature at Play (2021), The Yin and Yang of Short Film Storytelling (2022). Hans artikler er blevet udgivet i en række internationale tidsskrifter såsom Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Film History, Folklore, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Journal of Media Practice og Minerva: An Internet Journal of Philosophy. Han har været jurypræsident ved internationale kortfilmsfestivaler i bl.a. Frankrig, Belgien, Holland, Indien og Danmark, holder tit foredrag ved filmskoler og festivaler, og er grundlægger og redaktør af p.o.v. – A Danish Journal of Film Studies og Short Film Studies (Intellect Press). Richard Raskins website (in English): www.raskin.dk

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Richard Raskin
  • Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory: The tavern scene viewed in a yin/yang perspective

    Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory: The tavern scene viewed in a yin/yang perspective

    Richard Raskin
    Richard Raskin

    FEATURE. Paths of Glory (1957) is one of the best anti-war films ever made as well as Stanley Kubrick’s first masterpiece. It also contains one of the most highly praised film endings. Drawing on a particular form of complementarity, non-doing/doing, Richard Raskin sheds new light on this classic ending.

  • Five types of voice-over in feature film storytelling

    Five types of voice-over in feature film storytelling

    Richard Raskin
    Richard Raskin

    IN ENGLISH. This article is for anyone who would like to have a better grasp of the five types of voice-over found in such classics as Wings of Desire, Rashomon, and The Third Man. Richard Raskin presents an original model in plain, jargon-free language with plenty of stills, full transcription of thoughts and spoken lines, and no filler or mystification.

  • Identification: a Four-phase Model

    Identification: a Four-phase Model

    Richard Raskin
    Richard Raskin

    FEATURE. Few film scholars cherish and practice brevity like Richard Raskin. In 1983, he wrote a hitherto little-known text on identification in the cinema. Raskin condensed his thoughts into a single table that various students of his have encountered in the form of a handout. Here – finally – Raskin presents his thoughts on the matter in the form of an article.

  • The Original Function of Groucho Marx’s Resignation Joke

    The Original Function of Groucho Marx’s Resignation Joke

    Richard Raskin
    Richard Raskin

    FEATURE. Certain comic one-liners have become so legendary that they have been absorped into the collective pool of references that we tap into on a daily basis. Many will know the famous “Resignation Joke” attributed to Groucho Marx: “I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.”? Some will also remember that Woody Allen revived the joke in the opening scene of Annie Hall (1977). Yet what was the original context and function of the joke? Richard Raskin fills us in.