Publications
The members of the research group for Visual Studies aim for a high dissemination frequency. Although most of our production is in Norwegian, we also enjoy international reach, with monographs as well as edited anthologies, papers and articles. We here present some of the recent international publications by our researchers.
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Coverscaping: Discovering Album AestheticsSmall images:
Postdoctoral fellow Øyvind Vågnes and professor Asbjørn Grønstad's book Coverscaping: Discovering Album Aesthetics focuses on the semiotics, poetics, and rhetoric of album covers. The book is based on research undertaken wihtin the Nomadikon project, and concerns how record sleeves may represent a visual genre in its own right.
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Screening the UnwatchableSmall images:
Professor Asbjørn Grønstad's book Screening the Unwatchable traces the rise of extreme art cinema across a range of films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Caché. Screening the Unwatchable is published by Palgrave.
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Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American CinemaSmall images:
Asbjørn Grønstad's new publication Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema explores our cultural obsession with film violence and brings it into a renewed dialogue with contemporary theory. The book alters both our methodology of reading violence in films and the meanings we assign to them.
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Film MusicSmall images:
In Film Music Peter Larsen traces the history of music in film and discusses central theoretical questions concerning its narrative and psychological functions. The book serves as an important text for students of film, music and cultural disciplines, as well as the general reader with an interest in film and popular music.