Erlend Lavik

Hjemmeside: http://www.erlendlavik.blogspot.com/

Stilling: postdoktor

Telefon: 55 58 91 46

E-post: Erlend.Lavik@infomedia.uib.no

Besøksadresse: Fosswinckelsgt. 6

Romnummer: 528

Filmhistorie/historiografi, tekstteori, fjernsynsfiksjon, estetisk filosofi, kulturkritikk.

English
Research field: Film history/historiography, textual theory, television fiction, aesthetic philosophy, cultural criticism.

Lavik disputerte våren 2008 på en avhandling om amerikansk filmhistorie, og er for tiden ansatt som førsteamanuensis ved institutt for informasjons- og medievitenskap. Han arbeider særlig med spørsmål knyttet til mediehistorie, estetikk, narrativ teori og kulturkritikk.

English
In the spring of 2008 Lavik defended his doctoral thesis on American film history, and he is currently associate professor at the Department of information science and media studies. His work focuses especially on issues related to media history, narrative theory, and cultural criticism.

Publikasjoner i Cristin

Publications

2010: "'Not the Obstacle but the Means': Film History and the Postmodern Challenge", in Rethinking History, 14:2.

2008: "The Strange Case of The Wire". Paper at the Norwegian Media Conference, Lillehammer, October 30-31.

2008: "Filmkritikk i den digitale tidsalderen" ["Film Criticism in the Digital Era"], i Kulturjournalistikkens Offentlighet, (red. Karl Knapskog og Leif Ove Larsen). Spartacus Forlag.

2008: Changing Narratives. Five Essays on Hollywood History. Doctoral dissertation.

2008: "The Battle for the Blockbuster: Discourses of Spectacle and Excess", in New Review of Film and Television Studies, 6:2.

Earlier versions of the article were presented at the following conferences:

NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) conference, Vienna, Austria, June 21.-23. 2007.
The Norwegian Media Conference, Bergen, Norway, October 19.-20. 2006, as "Spectacle and Excess in the Blockbuster"

2008: "Film audiences", co-authored with Jostein Gripsrud, in Handbook of Film Studies, edited by James Donald and Michael Renov, to be published by Sage.

2007: "Komikk og Romantikk i Hollywood" ("Comedy and Romance in Hollywood"), in 16:9, no. 20, February 2007.

2006: "Narrative Structure in The Sixth Sense: A New Twist in 'Twist Movies'?", in The Velvet Light Trap, no. 58. Full text (subscription required)

Earlier versions of the article were presented at the following conferences:
"Text/context", NorFa conference August 18.-22. 2003, as "A New Twist in 'Twist Movies'"?
"Kritisk analyse i kunst- og kulturvitenskapene", by forskerskolen "Tekst, Bilde, Lyd, Rom", August 29.-Septmeber 1. 2005, as "Narration in The Sixth Sense".

2006: "On the Prospects of a Postmodern Film Historiography", theory of science paper.

2006: "'The Way Bordwell Tells It': Om Klassisk og post-klassisk Hollywoodfilm", in The Norwegian Journal of Media Studies, no. 3. Full text

2006: "'The Way Bordwell Tells It': On classical and post-classical Hollywood cinema", in The Norwegian Journal of Media Studies. Full text

2006: "Spectacle and Excess in the Blockbuster". Paper at the Norwegian Media Conference in Bergen, Norway, October 19.-20.

2006: "Spectacle and Excess in the Blockbuster". Paper at the Style and Story Design PhD seminar in Ebeltoft, Denmark, June 8.-10.

2005: "The Concept of Classical Hollywood Cinema". Paper at the Nordic Media Conference in Aalborg, Denmark, August 11.-14.

2004: "Pressen og teatrene. En case-studie fra Bergen" ["The press and the theaters.  A case study from Bergen", in Søkelys på kulturjournalistikk. Bergen: Department of Information Science and Media Studies. ISBN 82-8033-023-2

2001: Kjærlighet i seriemonogamiets tidsalder. Romantiske komedier i Hollywood [Love in the Age of Serial Monogamy. Romantic Comedies in Hollywood]. Bergen: Department of media studies