- E-mailleif.larsen@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 41 16+47 411 06 538
- Visitor AddressFosswinckels gate 6Lauritz Meltzers hus5007 BergenRoom511
- Postal AddressPostboks 78025020 Bergen
Media history; popular comedy and humor; journalism / cultural journalism; media industry and innovation; media and cultural policy; public sphere theory and history.
A major topic of my research is the history of popular culture. I have published several articles in academic journals and anthologies on Norwegian comedy and comedians in film and television, but have also published on Hollywood cinema, genre analyses and theory, and reception history. My most recent project in this area is the history of the major Norwegian film studio of the 20th century, Norsk Film A/S, published in the book Norsk Film A/S. En kulturhistorie (Norwegian Film Studios Ltd. A Cultural History) (2020), in which I contributed with two chapters on the company in the 1950s.
A second topic is cultural journalism and criticism. In 2008 I co-edited (with Karl Knapskog) the book Cultural Journalism. The Press and the Cultural Public Sphere (in Norwegian only). I was co-leader of the NFR-funded research project Journalistic Reorientations: The Online Challenge to Journalistic Ontology (2010-2014), and more recently I participated in a comparative project on Nordic cultural journalism. The result of the project is published in the anthology Cultural Journalism in the Nordic Countries (2017), in which I co-published two articles on cultural journalism in the Norwegian press and on public service broadcasting in the Nordics.
A third area of research interest is the history and functions of the public sphere. This includes study of copyright in the field of documentary production, and an ambitious study of the history of the Norwegian public sphere. Together with colleagues from my Department in Bergen, the comprehensive study was published in Allmennningen. Historien om norsk offentlighet (The Public Space. The history of the public sphere in Norway) (Jostein Gripsrud, ed. 2017). I am the sole author of a chapter on the public spehere during the second world war, but also contributing to several other chapters.
While serving as head of department for ten years (2012-2021) and being a partner in the Bergen Media Cluster, the field of innovation and the recent changes of the media industry has sparked my interest. Currently (2022) I am undertaking a comparative study of European media clusters, with particular regard to the role of the universities / academic partners.
- (2007). Metodebok for mediefag. 3. utgave. Fagbokforlaget.
- (2004). Metodbok för medievetenskap. Liber.
- (2002). Metodebok for mediefag. Fagbokforlaget.
- (2010). Documentary in a culture of clearance : a study of knowledge of and attitudes toward copyright and fair use among Norwegian documentary makers. Popular Communication - The International Journal of Media and Culture. 46-60.
- (2006). Underholdningens gunst: Leif Juster og filmkomedien. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. 33-41.
- (2005). Metodebok for mediefag. Nordicom Information. 8-9.
- (2004). Du store alpakka! Komiske lærere i norsk film. Historie. 62-73.
- (2003). Kunnskapens gjerder. Intellektuell eiendom og akademia. Norsk Medietidsskrift. 105-120.
- (2002). Filmmoro på norsk: Historien om et smertensbarn? Z filmtidsskrift. 5-15.
- (2001). Respektløs moro? Satire og parodi i 1960-årenes tv-komedie. Norsk Medietidsskrift. 5-24.
- (1996). Situasjonskomedien : humor på samlebånd. Norsk Medietidsskrift. 62-70.
- (2015). Mediating the welfare state: journalistic representations of institutional dysfunction.
- (2012). Migrant Cinema and Cultural Identity - A Public Sphere Perspective.
- (2012). A National Laughter: The Popular Film Comedy.
- (2010). Fotografiet og Justers stjernebilde.
- (2010). Comic Encounters: Cultural Identity in Popular Film and Television Comedy.
- (2009). Is Copyright a problem for Norwegian Filmmakers?
- (2009). Fair Use in a Culture of Clearance: A Study of Knowledge of and Attitudes Towards Copyright and Fair Use among Norwegian Documentary Makers.
- (2009). Copyright and Fair Use in a Culture of Clearance.
- (2008). The Unruly Body: Leif Juster and Popular Norwegian Film Comedy.
- (2008). Fair Use in a Culture of Clearance: A Study of Knowledge and Attitudes towards Copyright and Fair Use among Norwegian Documentary Makers.
- (2008). Entertaining the Nation: Leif Juster and a Century of popular Comedy.
- (2008). A Funny Icon: Leif Juster as Star/Comedian.
- (2007). Ikkje med mine skattepengar! Om kulturpolitikkens normative grunngjeving.
- (2007). Film in Norwegian History Writing.
- (2006). Kulturjournalistikk.
- (2006). Film in National History Writing.
- (2005). Leif Juster og filmen.
- (2005). Filmkomedien og den norske filmkanon.
- (2004). Kjønnsløse bokormer: Komiske lærere i norsk film.
- (2003). The Comedien as Star: Cultural Populism and the Changing Image of a Clown.
- (2003). Terningens ubehag.
- (2003). En tvilsom coctail: Filmkomedien, revyscenen og moderne moro omkring 1930.
- (2002). The Archive and the Researcher.
- (2002). Respektløs moro? Satire og parodi i 1960-årenes tv-komedie.
- (2002). Norsk filmhistorie: Status og utfordringer.
- (2002). Moro i husmorparadiset: Norske filmkomedier og husmorsamfunnets modernisering.
- (2001). I den gode saks tjeneste. Kultur i Dagbladet i 1960 og 2001.
- (1992). Lessons in the art of marriage: remarks on the most popular Norwegian film comedies of the 1950s.
- (2016). The Journalistic Institution Re-examined. Digital Challenges and Professional Reorientations. University of Chicago Press.
- (2016). Journalism Re-examined. Digital Challenges and Professional Reorientations. Lessons from Northern Europe. Intellect Ltd..
- (2012). Nytt på nett og brett. Journalistikk i forandring. Universitetsforlaget.
- (2008). Kulturjournalistikk. Pressen og den kulturelle offentligheten. Scandinavian Academic Press.
- (2008). Kulturjournalistikk. Pressen og den kulturelle offentligheten. Spartacus.
- (2004). Søkelys på kulturjournalistikk. Institutt for informasjons- og medievitenskap.
- (2012). Kampf um Norwegen: Filmatiske virkemidler og propagandahistorisk kontekst. Nordiki.no. 16 pages.
- (2006). Kampf um Norwegen. Cinemateket USF program. 10-11.
- (2003). Bygdetullinger, underbukser og annen billig moro - Norke folkekomedier under lupen. Cinemateket - Bergen Filmklubb. 76-79.
- (2014). Delineating boundaries between 'us' and 'them'.
- (1999). Moderniseringsmoro : romantiske komedier i norsk film 1950-1965 : sjangeren, publikum, sosialhistorien. 42.
- (2009). Samtale om kulturjournalistikk i norsk presse.
- (2007). Og nå: Reklame! (om mat).
- (2007). Og nå: Reklame! (om hygiene).
- (2007). Og nå: Reklame! (om husmoren i reklamefilm).
- (2006). Filmfront om den romantisk komedien.
- (2002). Om den amerikanske situasjonskomedien Cosby-show spesielt og svarte komikere i USA generelt.
- (2020). Prestisjeprosjektet som nesten veltet Norsk Fim A/S. En produksjonsstudie av "Hans Nielsen Hauge". 10 pages.
- (2020). Et vaklende kulturpolitisk instrument . 36 pages.
- (2017). What Is Cultural News Good For? Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish cultural journalism in public service organisations. 23 pages.
- (2017). Liberalisering og differensiering. 66 pages.
- (2017). Journalistiske virkelighetsbilder av velferdsstaten: fremstillingen av det offentlige omsorgsapparatet i «Jannes historie». 21 pages.
- (2017). Cultural rebels, popular journalism and niche journalism in Norway.
- (2017). 1940-1945: Erfaringer med det totalitære. 32 pages.
- (2016). The Future of Interpretative Journalism. 18 pages.
- (2015). New Voices, New Stories: Migrant Cinema and Television in Norway. 23 pages.
- (2012). Nytt, brett, nett. Journalsitikk i forandring. 11 pages.
- (2012). Kunnskapens apostler: Bilder av læreren i norsk film. 19 pages.
- (2012). Kultur på nett og brett. 9 pages.
- (2009). Lystige spor: Leif Juster som biografisk utfordring. 17 pages.
- (2009). En kulturjournalistikkens renessanse? Om kulturdekning i papir- og nettaviser. 18 pages.
- (2009). Avant-garde Comedy and Populism: The Star Image of Comedian Rolv Wesenlund. 10 pages.
- (2008). Jentemoro fra Hollywood: 'The Sweetest Thing' og den romantiske komediens konvensjoner. 15 pages.
- (2008). Hva er sjangeranalyse? 7 pages.
- (2008). Forskyvninger: Kulturdekningen i norske dagsaviser 1964-2005. 55 pages.
- (2008). Film og kino - institusjoner og historie. 24 pages.
- (2007). Tekstanalyse. 39 pages.
- (2007). Medieforskning, forskningskvalitet og forskningsetikk. 26 pages.
- (2007). Generalisering. 28 pages.
- (2007). Forskningsdesign og forskningsrapportering. 19 pages.
- (2006). Pinlig moro. Kjønn, kjærlighet og humor i romantisk komedie. 18 pages.
- (2004). Textanalys. 37 pages.
- (2004). Generalisering. 26 pages.
- (2004). Forskningsdesign. 12 pages.
- (2003). Muntre perspektiv: Fjernsynskomediens estetikk. 22 pages.
- (2002). Tekstanalyse. 37 pages.
- (2002). Generalisering. 26 pages.
- (2002). Forskningsdesign. 12 pages.
- (2001). Kulturjournalistikk og offentlighet. 40 pages.
- (1999). Film og kino : institusjoner og historie. 20 pages.
- (1997). Kompaniskap og kjønnskamp. Ekteskapskomedier i norsk film 1951-1964. 26 pages.
- (1994). Let's Stay Married: Notes on Norwegian Romantic Comedies of the 1950's.
- (1993). Let's stay Married : Notes on Norwegian Romantic Comedies of the 1950' s.
- (1993). Husmoren vaskes ut : støv på hjernen og 50-tallets familieideal. 16 pages.
- (1993). Egons planer og Olsenbanden som komedie : et notat om planens bidrag til Olsenbandens narrative struktur. 13 pages.
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