Asbjørn Grønstad

Hjemmeside: http://www.nomadikon.net/

Stilling: forsker

Telefon: 55 58 31 64

E-post: Asbjorn.Gronstad@infomedia.uib.no

Besøksadresse: Fosswinckelsgt. 6

Romnummer: 616

Filmvitenskap, Visuell Kultur, American Studies.

Professor

Publikasjoner i Cristin

 

 

 

TEKSTER

 

2008

 

 

 

"'No one goes to the Movies anymore:' Cinema and Visual Studies in the Digital Era." In Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media. No. 30. Fall 2008.

 

"Døden på lerretet." Interview in Hubro. Vol. 15. No. 4.

 

"Tact and Tactility: On Jane Campion's In the Cut." In American, British and Canadian Studies. 10.

 

Transfiguations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American

Cinema. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

 

"Downcast Eyes: Michael Haneke and the Cinema of Intrusion." In Nordicom Review. 29.1.

 

"Filosofen for en Komparativ Estetikk." Review of Form og Teknikk, by Ernst Cassirer, introduction by Aud Sissel Hoel. In Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift. 43.3.

 

"Portrett av eit Augeblikk." In Klassekampen. October 4.

 

"Doktorutdanning utan Forskingsfridom?" In På Høyden. June 10.

 

"Jean-Luc Godard." In The Literary Encyclopedia.

 

"New American Cinema." In The Literary Encyclopedia.

 

"Teljekantar og Teljefantar: Om Forsking, Formidling og den Tospråklege Fordringa." In Syn & Segn. 115.1.

 

"Eit forsøk på å oppsummere den evigvarande tellekantdebatten." In Prosa. 14.1.

 

 

 

2007

 

"Intervju med Martin Jay." With Øyvind Vågnes. In

Agora: Journal for Metafysisk Spekulasjon. 25.4.       

 

"Disiplin og Purisme: Eit Essay om Transmedial Kultur." In Norsk Medietidsskrift. 14.3.

 

"Isaac Julien’s Looking For Langston and the Limits of the Visible World." In Transcultural Identities and Masks. Eds. Anne Holden Rønning & Lene Johannessen. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

 

"Mot ein ny Biletvitskap? Intervju med W.J.T. Mitchell." With Øyvind Vågnes. In Norsk Medietidsskrift. 14.1.

 

"Historia om ei Kunstutstilling: Boteros' Abu Ghraib." In Klassekampen. June 9.

 

 

 

2006 

 

"Abject Desire: L’anatomie de l’enfer and the Unwatchable." In Studies in French Cinema. 6.2.

 

"Narrative’s Scar: Violence and Subjectivity in Fight Club." In America in the Course of Human Events. Eds. Josef Jarab, Marcel Arbeit & Jenel Virden. Amsterdam: VU Press.

 

"An Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell." With Øyvind Vågnes. In Image & Narrative. 15.

 

"Denis Johnson’s Postmodern Lazarus: Transforming Faith in Resuscitation of a Hanged Man." In American Studies in Scandinavia. 37.2.

 

"Straw Dogs and the Aesthetics of Violence, part 2." In American, British, and Canadian Studies. 9.

 

 

 

2005

 

To Become the Self One is: A Critical Companion to A Saloonkeeper’s Daughter.

Eds. Asbjørn Grønstad & Lene Johannessen. Oslo: Novus.

 

"Looking in: William Carlos Williams and the Image-Text." In Estragon. 2.

 

"Godards Eloge de l’amour: Om Minnet, Historia, Gløymsla." In Replikk. 20.

 

"Coppola’s Exhausted Eschatology: Apocalypse Now Reconsidered." In Nordic Journal of English Studies. 4.1.

 

"The Wonders of the Invisible World: The Handsome Family and the Gothic Sublime."

In Chapter & Verse. 2.1.

 

"Straw Dogs and the Aesthetics of Violence, part 1." In American, British, and Canadian Studies. 6.

 

"Filmmaktens Fysiognomi?" Review of Kyssing & Slåssing, by Eivind Røssaak & Christian Refsum. In Norsk Medietidsskrift. 12.4.

 

"Tiresijin pogled: Joyce, Rossellini iikonologija mrtvih." In Ljetopis: Croatian Film Journal. 42.

 

 

 

2004

 

"Murnau og Soloppgangen." In Bergens Tidende. November 18.

 

"Anatomy of a Murder: Bazin, Barthes, Blow-Up." In The Film Journal. 9.

 

"Textual Theory and Blind Spots in Media Studies." Translation of article authored by Liv Hausken. In Narrative Across Media: The Languages of Storytelling. Ed. Marie Laure-Ryan.  Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.

 

"Grønstad ga seg filmen i vold." Interview in Bergens Tidende. February 4.

 

 

 

2003

 

Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema. Doctoral Dissertation. Department of English, University of Bergen.

 

"As I Lay Dying: Violence and Subjectivity in Reservoir Dogs." In Modi Operandi: Perspektiver på Kriminallitteratur. Eds. Eva Lambertsson Björk, Karen Parick Knutsen, Elin Nesje Vestli. Halden: Høgskolen i Østfold.

 

"One-Dimensional Men: Fight Club and the Poetics of the Body." In Film Criticism. 28.1.

 

"Mean Streets: Death and Disfiguration in Hawks’s Scarface." In Nordic Journal of English Studies. 2.2.

 

"The Lying Game: Historical Films and the Re-Invention of the Past." In Film and History.

 

" Gathering at the River: Ford, Peckinpah and the Failure of the Communal." In American Studies in Scandinavia. 35.1.

 

 

 

2002

 

"Re-Viewing Bonnie and Clyde: Context, Reception and Aesthetic Framework."

In New Approaches to American Studies. Ed. Christa Buschendorf. Frankfurt am Main: Zentrum für Nordamerika-Forschung.

 

"The Gaze of Tiresias: Joyce, Rossellini and the Iconology of the Dead." In Nordic Journal of English Studies. 1.2.

 

"Back to Bazin? Filmicity in the Age of the Digital Image." In Popular Culture Review. 13.2.

 

"The Appropriational Fallacy: Grand Theories and the Neglect of Film Form."

In Film-Philosophy. 6.23.

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"Filmfortolkningens Hegemoni." In Z Filmtidsskrift. 78.

 

 

2001

 

"Peckinpah’s Walden: The Violent Indictment of ‘Civilization’ in The Wild Bunch."

In From Virgin Land to Disney World: Nature and its Discontents in the USA of Yesterday and Today. Ed. Bernd Herzogenrath. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi.

 

"Topographies of Defeat: Masculinity and Desolation in Fat City and Junior Bonner."

In Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media. 16.

 

"Violence as Form and Rhetoric: Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch." In American, British, and Canadian Studies. 4.

 

"Straitjacketing the Image: Illocutionary Writing and the Obstruction of Cine-Semiosis in Hawks’s Scarface." In Redoubt. 29.

 

"To Fail Better: The Production and Rhetoric of Curtiz’ and Richardson’s Light Brigades."

In Dialoguing on Genres. Eds. Ulf Lie & Anne Holden Rønning. Oslo: Novus.

 

 

 

1999

 

"Tid, Bevegelse og Narrasjon: Bordwells Neoformalisme i Lys av Deleuzes Cinesofi."

In Replikk: Tidsskrift for Human-og Samfunnsvitenskap. 5.8.

 

 

1997

 

The Subjective Chasing the Subjective: Narrativization in Film—Notes on a Cognitive Theory of Reception. M.A. Thesis, Department of English, University of Bergen.

 

 

 

 

FOREDRAG

 

 

 

2009

 

"The Ethical Life of Images." Guest Lecture, Transformations in Screen Culture. The Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Stockholm. Stockholm, March 19.

 

 

 

"The Death of Cinema and the Rise of Visual Culture Studies." Guest lecture, Transformations in Screen Culture. The Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Stockholm. Stockholm, March 18.

 

 

 

2008

 

"Ekphrastic Migrations: Showing Seeing in Siri Hustvedt’s What I Loved."

The 4th Text-Action-Space (TAS) Workshop. Paris, November 3-5.

 

"Nighthawks at the Diner: Wong Kar Wai’s My Blueberry Nights."

ASANOR conference. Bergen, October 31 – November 2.

 

"Performing Landscape in Recent Art Cinema." The 3rd Text-Action-Space (TAS) Workshop.

 Bergen, June 23-25.

 

"Theorizing Disciplinarity: The Case of Cinema Studies and its Vanishing Objects."

Engaging Objects Conference, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. Amsterdam, March 26-28.

 

"Cinema and its Place in the Digital Era: The New Architectue of Image Studies."

Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Philadelphia, March 6-9.

 

 

 

2007

 

"Chinatown i Kontekst." Lecture given at Sauda Videregående Skole. September 24.

 

"Last Year at the Ambassador: Pastness in the Decay of Fiction." Screen Studies Conference. Glasgow, July 6-8.

 

"The Place of Cinema in the Era of Visual Studies." NECS Conference. Vienna, June 20-23.

 

 

2006

 

Introduction to "Philosophy in the Bedroom: A Workshop Linda Williams." Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, June 19.

 

"Abject Desire: L’anatomie de l’enfer and the Unwatchable." Between Three: The 30th International Association of Philosophy and Literature conference. Freiburg, June 5-10.

 

 

2005

 

"Forbudte Bilder." Lecture given at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies' seminar. Solstrand, December 19.

 

"Wonders of the Invisible World: The Music of the Handsome Family." International Association for the Study of Popular Music. 13th Biennial Conference. Rome, July 25-30.

 

"Last Year at the Ambassador: The Decay of Fiction and the Poetics of Pastness."

Society for Cinema and Media Studies. London, March 3 – April 3.

 

"Kiarostami, Nancy og det Etiske Blikket." Lecture given at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. April 11.

 

"Tid og Erindring i Theo Angelopoulos' Evigheten og en Dag." Lecture given at Bjørgvin Kirkeakademi. Bergen, March 10.

 

 

2004

 

"Denis Johnson’s Postmodern Lazarus: Transforming Faith in Resuscitation of a Hanged Man." The U.S. Today: The American Studies Association of Norway, 29th Annual Conference. Oslo, September 24-26.

 

"Vår Tids Redsel For Alvor: Nokre Refleksjonar Rundt Roy Anderssons Sanger Fra Andre Etasje." Lecture given at Bjørgvin Kirkeakademi. Bergen, September 23.

 

"Narrative’s Scar." European Association of American Studies Conference. Prague, April 2-5.

 

"Anatomy of a Murder: Bazin, Barthes, Blow-Up." The Photograph: An International, Interdisciplinary Conference. Winnipeg, March 11-13.

 

"Intervju om filmvold." Studentradioen i Bergen. January 19.

 

 

 

2003

 

"Isaac Julien’s Looking For Langston and the Limits of the Visible World."

Transcultural Identities and Masks. Bergen, October 10-12.

 

Chair/moderator of the panel "American Literature 1."

Transcultural Identities and Masks Conference. Bergen, October 10-12.   

 

"Rossellini and the Transtextual." International Association of Philosophy and literature. Leeds, May 26-31.

 

 

 

2002

 

"Love Among the Ruins: Memory and Iconology in Rossellini’s Viaggio in Italia."

Cultural Encounters. Dubrovnik, October 2-5. oktober.

 

"Bazin’s Ghost: CGI and the Photographic Image." International Association of Philosophy and Literature. Rotterdam, June 4-8.

 

"Film and the Nature of the Fictional." Society For Cinema Studies. Denver, May 23-26.

 

"The Gaze of Tiresias: Joyce, Rossellini and the Iconology of the Dead."

The Nordic Irish Studies Network’s Conference. Bergen, May 15-16.

 

"Voyeurist Culture: Perspectives on The Truman Show." Lecture given at the University of Bergen. February 4.

 

 

 

2001

 

"The Lying Game?: Historical Fiction and the Re-Invention of the Past."

The Nordic Association of American Studies Conference. Copenhagen, August 8-11.

 

"Film Beyond Photography: The Politics of Artificiality." The French Association of American Studies Conference. Orleans, May 26-27.

 

"Re-Viewing Bonnie and Clyde: Context, Reception, and Aesthetic Framework."

East-West American Studies Conference. Frankfurt, May 10-13.

 

"André Bazin and the Substance of Filmicity." American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association. Philadelphia, April 11-14.

 

 

2000

 

"Abject Topographies: Images of Male Desolation in Fat City and Junior Bonner."

American Studies Association of Norway, “The Country and the City.” Bø, September 22-24.

 

"Peckinpah’s Walden: The Violent Indictment of ‘Civilization’ in The Wild Bunch."

 American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association. New Orleans, April 19-22.

 

 

1999

 

"Violence as Form and Rhetoric: On Reading The Wild Bunch as a Narrative of Regeneration." Grand, Medium and Small Film Theories—Nordic Film Theory at the Turn of the Millennium. Copenhagen, December 10-12.

 

 

 

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