Peter Larsen
Professor
Phone: +47 55589118
Email: Peter.Larsen@infomedia.uib.no
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Peter Larsen is a member of the DigiCult core group. His has a theoretical background in semiotics, rhetoric, and textual theory. His main research areas are media history and textual analyses with special reference to visual media.
Larsen was a member of the “Changing Media – Changing Europe” project (2000-04), funded by the European Science Foundation. From 2003 to 2007, he was Director of the national research project "Photography in Culture" funded by the Norwegian Research Council. His research project «Music and Classical Hollywood» (2003-04) was funded by the Meltzer Foundation, University of Bergen. Among his recent publication are the following books: Film Music, London 2007 (a translation of his Filmmusikk. Historie, analyse, teori, Oslo 2005); Norsk fotohistorie. Frå daguerreotypi til digitalisering (a history of Norwegian photography, co-authored with Sigrid Lien), Oslo 2007; and Album. Fotografiske motiver (a collection of essays on photo theory), Oslo and Copenhagen 2004. Larsen is also editor of the textbook series Medievitenskap 1-4, Bergen 1999.