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Papers by Bjorn Sorenssen
A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950, 2019
This essay will deal with the often troubled relationship between the political workers’ movement... more This essay will deal with the often troubled relationship between the political workers’ movement (the Socialist and Communist parties) and the avant-garde movement in Europe during the interwar years, using the Norwegian workers’ movement as an ex- ample. Centre-stage in this conflict we find the film and theatre pioneer Olav Dalgard, caught between enthusiasm for the ideas of avant-garde film and theatre and the mundane realities of everyday political struggle for the Norwegian working class.
Norsk medietidsskrift, Apr 11, 2005
about media culture, and on the nature of the theoretical and methodological roots upon which we ... more about media culture, and on the nature of the theoretical and methodological roots upon which we base our work. This is an impressive work that should come to be appreciated for its creative and ambitious approach to emerging issues in media and culture.
Medijska istraživanja : znanstveno-stručni časopis za novinarstvo i medije, Dec 2, 2009
Norsk medietidsskrift, Oct 1, 2000
Kristin Braa, Per Hetland, Gunnar Liestøl (red.) (1999) netts@mfunn. Oslo: Tano Aschehoug.
Fabelaktig. En feiring av professor Ove Solum, 2023
In the period between 1865 and 1920 870,000 Norwegians emigrated from Norway to the United States... more In the period between 1865 and 1920 870,000 Norwegians emigrated from Norway to the United States at a time when the total population of Norway was around 2,6 million. These emigrants constiuted significant ethnic settlements both in urban (Chicago, Brooklyn) and rural (Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas) settings. This chapter discusses how Norwegian film makers, in this case represented by Rasmus Breistein used this audience to promote and show popular Norwegian films with a strong national romantic character in the 1920s and early 1930s.
While Joe Rosenthal´s photo of the U.S. marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima brought him instant ... more While Joe Rosenthal´s photo of the U.S. marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima brought him instant fame, Bill Genaust, the man who stood at his side capturing the moment on movie film, is forgotten, having been killed on he island a couple of days later. This article deals with Genaust´s 8-second shot of the flag raising and how it was and has been used in various documentary films, television series an, ultimately in fiction film, as in Clint Eastwood´s "Flags of Our Fathers".
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jun 1, 1994
Google, Inc. (search), Subscribe (Full Service), Register (Limited Service, Free), Login. Search:... more Google, Inc. (search), Subscribe (Full Service), Register (Limited Service, Free), Login. Search: The ACM Digital Library The Guide. ...
Norsk medietidsskrift, Oct 1, 1999
Gunnar Sand og Knut Helland (1998) Bak TV-nyhetene. Produksjon og presentasjon i NRK og TV2. Berg... more Gunnar Sand og Knut Helland (1998) Bak TV-nyhetene. Produksjon og presentasjon i NRK og TV2. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget
Norsk medietidsskrift, Oct 1, 1998
Planutvalget for programsatsingen 'Kommunikasjon, IKT, medier' (KIM) la den 6 mai. 2002 frem sin ... more Planutvalget for programsatsingen 'Kommunikasjon, IKT, medier' (KIM) la den 6 mai. 2002 frem sin innstilling. Forslaget er utformet med sikte på å anlegge perspektiver og temaområder som skal kunne vaere åpne for ulike konkretiseringer innenfor IKT-og mediefeltet fra søkeres side. Både IKT-og medieforskningen er brede felt. Utvalget har derfor, i samsvar med mandatet, forsøkt å formulere problemstillinger som er felles for de to områdene. Dette innebaerer at det er store deler av IKT-og medieforskningen som ikke favnes av dette programforslaget, og som det derfor bør finnes andre muligheter for i Forskningsrådet. Utvalget har hatt en stor oppgave på kort tid. Arbeidet ble påbegynt midt i mars 2002 og ble gjennomført med fire møter i løpet av seks arbeidsuker. Prosess og mandat Planutvalget for forskningssatsingen KIM ble oppnevnt for perioden 4. mars til 22. mai 2002 av Området for Kultur og samfunn i Forskningsrådet.
Short film studies, Oct 1, 2013
At the 1997 Cannes Festival’s Semaine de la critique, Pål Sletaune’s Junk Mail/Budbringeren (1997... more At the 1997 Cannes Festival’s Semaine de la critique, Pål Sletaune’s Junk Mail/Budbringeren (1997) attracted international attention and was seen as the harbinger of a new and exciting phase in Norwegian cinema. In this article, Sletaune’s short film Eating Out is placed in context and discussed as a thematic and stylistic forerunner to his acclaimed feature film.
MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, Sep 3, 1997
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2014
The hatching and diffusion of conspiracy theories is a permanent and sometimes disturbing fact of... more The hatching and diffusion of conspiracy theories is a permanent and sometimes disturbing fact of contemporary culture. Norwegians became painfully aware of this in the summer of 2011 with the bomb explosion in Oslo and the mass killings at a Labour Party Youth camp at Ut0ya where 77 lives were lost. The perpetrator Anders Behring Breivik’s rambling ‘manifesto’ is a chilling reminder of the connection between theory and action in this case, as in numerous other cases. Breivik’s defense for his actions was, as he stated in his ‘manifesto’, that Europe was the victim of the Eurabia agreement, a sinister plot to ‘Arabise’ the continent. The centerpiece of Breivik’s ‘manifesto’is an essay written by his countryman Fjordman (alias for Peder Jensen) titled EU’s Eurabia Project (The Eurabia Code) — Documenting EU’s deliberate strategy to Islamise Europe. This essay is a presentation and discussion of the ideas presented by the French author Bat Ye’or (pseudonym for Gisele Litman), who maintains that following a meeting between European Union (EU) officials and representatives of Arab states in the wake of the oil crisis in 1974 an agreement was made allowing for greater Arab and Muslim influence in Europe (Ye’or 2005). This agreement has again resulted in a profound demographic change in the European countries, resulting in what has also been called ‘Islamisation’. For Breivik, taking this as a cue, European culture was under attack from Islamists and their unwitting allies, the ‘cultural marxists and mulitculturalists’, and he claimed his actions were justifiable as pre-emptive attacks in a civil war.
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2011
Norway was invaded by Nazi Germany on 9 April 1940.2 The Norwegian National-Socialist Vidkun Quis... more Norway was invaded by Nazi Germany on 9 April 1940.2 The Norwegian National-Socialist Vidkun Quisling, leader of the small Nasjonal Samling party, immediately attempted a coup d’etat by forming a ‘government of national unity’. He was briefly recognised by Hitler as Norway’s legitimate new ruler. Lack of Norwegian support for Quisling made Hitler change his mind and the country would, until the end of the occupation (May 1945), be governed by Reich Commissioner Josef Terboven. Final attempts were made to establish Quisling as a national figure with a semblance of independence. On 1 February 1942, Quisling was appointed Minister President. The real power remained, however, in German hands.
Film History: An International Journal, Mar 1, 2001
... The film's rhetorical position was largely an expression of disappointment in what w... more ... The film's rhetorical position was largely an expression of disappointment in what was believed to be a betrayal of the traditions of social democracy Bjorn Sorenssen is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Trondheim-NTNU, Norway. ...
Studies in Documentary Film, Mar 28, 2008
Page 1. Studies in Documentary Film Volume 2 Number 1 © 2008 Intellect Ltd Article. English langu... more Page 1. Studies in Documentary Film Volume 2 Number 1 © 2008 Intellect Ltd Article. English language. doi: 10.1386/sdf.2.1.47/1 Digital video and Alexandre Astruc's caméra-stylo: the new avant-garde in documentary realized? ...
Short film studies, Apr 1, 2015
Viewing Urząd as a film school production, this article focuses on Kieslowski's ingenious use of ... more Viewing Urząd as a film school production, this article focuses on Kieslowski's ingenious use of meagre resources to create a critical view of Polish bureaucracy, despite his inability to shoot synchronous sound when making this film. Urząd/The Office was made by Krzystof Kies´lowski in 1966 while he was a student in his second year at the Polish State Film School in Łódz. . This school was at the time highly respected internationally and among its teachers, alumni and students it could count names like Wanda Jakubowska, Kazimierz Karabasz, Andzej Wajda, Roman Polański and Jerzy Skolomowski. Among Kies´lowski´s contemporaries at the school were the later renowned directors Krzysztof Zanussi and Grzegorsz Królikiewicz, but just as important was the fact that he was at school with a new generation of Polish documentarists, such as Krzystof Wojciechowski, Marek Piwowski and, a few years later, Marcel Łozinski. This was a group of students who, according to Marek Haltof, 'developed and shaped documentary film in Poland in the years to come' (2004: 6). Kies´lowski clearly made documentary his first choice in cinematographic expression, both by writing his thesis on documentary film and in his choice of graduation film, Z miasta Łodzi/From the City of Łodz, which also was his first official film production, from 1969.
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Mar 25, 1994
Columbia University Press eBooks, Jun 25, 2013
While Joe Rosenthal´s photo of the U.S. marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima brought him instant ... more While Joe Rosenthal´s photo of the U.S. marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima brought him instant fame, Bill Genaust, the man who stood at his side capturing the moment on movie film, is forgotten, having been killed on he island a couple of days later. This article deals with Genaust´s 8-second shot of the flag raising and how it was and has been used in various documentary films, television series an, ultimately in fiction film, as in Clint Eastwood´s "Flags of Our Fathers".
Short film studies, 2021
This article deals with the role artificial language (pseudo-language) plays in this short film a... more This article deals with the role artificial language (pseudo-language) plays in this short film and draws parallels to other examples where pseudo-language has been used to achieve comic effect, from Chaplin’s Modern Times to contemporary use of the effect while emphasizing the concept of alienation in twentieth-century modernism.
A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950, 2019
This essay will deal with the often troubled relationship between the political workers’ movement... more This essay will deal with the often troubled relationship between the political workers’ movement (the Socialist and Communist parties) and the avant-garde movement in Europe during the interwar years, using the Norwegian workers’ movement as an ex- ample. Centre-stage in this conflict we find the film and theatre pioneer Olav Dalgard, caught between enthusiasm for the ideas of avant-garde film and theatre and the mundane realities of everyday political struggle for the Norwegian working class.
Norsk medietidsskrift, Apr 11, 2005
about media culture, and on the nature of the theoretical and methodological roots upon which we ... more about media culture, and on the nature of the theoretical and methodological roots upon which we base our work. This is an impressive work that should come to be appreciated for its creative and ambitious approach to emerging issues in media and culture.
Medijska istraživanja : znanstveno-stručni časopis za novinarstvo i medije, Dec 2, 2009
Norsk medietidsskrift, Oct 1, 2000
Kristin Braa, Per Hetland, Gunnar Liestøl (red.) (1999) netts@mfunn. Oslo: Tano Aschehoug.
Fabelaktig. En feiring av professor Ove Solum, 2023
In the period between 1865 and 1920 870,000 Norwegians emigrated from Norway to the United States... more In the period between 1865 and 1920 870,000 Norwegians emigrated from Norway to the United States at a time when the total population of Norway was around 2,6 million. These emigrants constiuted significant ethnic settlements both in urban (Chicago, Brooklyn) and rural (Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas) settings. This chapter discusses how Norwegian film makers, in this case represented by Rasmus Breistein used this audience to promote and show popular Norwegian films with a strong national romantic character in the 1920s and early 1930s.
While Joe Rosenthal´s photo of the U.S. marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima brought him instant ... more While Joe Rosenthal´s photo of the U.S. marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima brought him instant fame, Bill Genaust, the man who stood at his side capturing the moment on movie film, is forgotten, having been killed on he island a couple of days later. This article deals with Genaust´s 8-second shot of the flag raising and how it was and has been used in various documentary films, television series an, ultimately in fiction film, as in Clint Eastwood´s "Flags of Our Fathers".
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jun 1, 1994
Google, Inc. (search), Subscribe (Full Service), Register (Limited Service, Free), Login. Search:... more Google, Inc. (search), Subscribe (Full Service), Register (Limited Service, Free), Login. Search: The ACM Digital Library The Guide. ...
Norsk medietidsskrift, Oct 1, 1999
Gunnar Sand og Knut Helland (1998) Bak TV-nyhetene. Produksjon og presentasjon i NRK og TV2. Berg... more Gunnar Sand og Knut Helland (1998) Bak TV-nyhetene. Produksjon og presentasjon i NRK og TV2. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget
Norsk medietidsskrift, Oct 1, 1998
Planutvalget for programsatsingen 'Kommunikasjon, IKT, medier' (KIM) la den 6 mai. 2002 frem sin ... more Planutvalget for programsatsingen 'Kommunikasjon, IKT, medier' (KIM) la den 6 mai. 2002 frem sin innstilling. Forslaget er utformet med sikte på å anlegge perspektiver og temaområder som skal kunne vaere åpne for ulike konkretiseringer innenfor IKT-og mediefeltet fra søkeres side. Både IKT-og medieforskningen er brede felt. Utvalget har derfor, i samsvar med mandatet, forsøkt å formulere problemstillinger som er felles for de to områdene. Dette innebaerer at det er store deler av IKT-og medieforskningen som ikke favnes av dette programforslaget, og som det derfor bør finnes andre muligheter for i Forskningsrådet. Utvalget har hatt en stor oppgave på kort tid. Arbeidet ble påbegynt midt i mars 2002 og ble gjennomført med fire møter i løpet av seks arbeidsuker. Prosess og mandat Planutvalget for forskningssatsingen KIM ble oppnevnt for perioden 4. mars til 22. mai 2002 av Området for Kultur og samfunn i Forskningsrådet.
Short film studies, Oct 1, 2013
At the 1997 Cannes Festival’s Semaine de la critique, Pål Sletaune’s Junk Mail/Budbringeren (1997... more At the 1997 Cannes Festival’s Semaine de la critique, Pål Sletaune’s Junk Mail/Budbringeren (1997) attracted international attention and was seen as the harbinger of a new and exciting phase in Norwegian cinema. In this article, Sletaune’s short film Eating Out is placed in context and discussed as a thematic and stylistic forerunner to his acclaimed feature film.
MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, Sep 3, 1997
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2014
The hatching and diffusion of conspiracy theories is a permanent and sometimes disturbing fact of... more The hatching and diffusion of conspiracy theories is a permanent and sometimes disturbing fact of contemporary culture. Norwegians became painfully aware of this in the summer of 2011 with the bomb explosion in Oslo and the mass killings at a Labour Party Youth camp at Ut0ya where 77 lives were lost. The perpetrator Anders Behring Breivik’s rambling ‘manifesto’ is a chilling reminder of the connection between theory and action in this case, as in numerous other cases. Breivik’s defense for his actions was, as he stated in his ‘manifesto’, that Europe was the victim of the Eurabia agreement, a sinister plot to ‘Arabise’ the continent. The centerpiece of Breivik’s ‘manifesto’is an essay written by his countryman Fjordman (alias for Peder Jensen) titled EU’s Eurabia Project (The Eurabia Code) — Documenting EU’s deliberate strategy to Islamise Europe. This essay is a presentation and discussion of the ideas presented by the French author Bat Ye’or (pseudonym for Gisele Litman), who maintains that following a meeting between European Union (EU) officials and representatives of Arab states in the wake of the oil crisis in 1974 an agreement was made allowing for greater Arab and Muslim influence in Europe (Ye’or 2005). This agreement has again resulted in a profound demographic change in the European countries, resulting in what has also been called ‘Islamisation’. For Breivik, taking this as a cue, European culture was under attack from Islamists and their unwitting allies, the ‘cultural marxists and mulitculturalists’, and he claimed his actions were justifiable as pre-emptive attacks in a civil war.
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2011
Norway was invaded by Nazi Germany on 9 April 1940.2 The Norwegian National-Socialist Vidkun Quis... more Norway was invaded by Nazi Germany on 9 April 1940.2 The Norwegian National-Socialist Vidkun Quisling, leader of the small Nasjonal Samling party, immediately attempted a coup d’etat by forming a ‘government of national unity’. He was briefly recognised by Hitler as Norway’s legitimate new ruler. Lack of Norwegian support for Quisling made Hitler change his mind and the country would, until the end of the occupation (May 1945), be governed by Reich Commissioner Josef Terboven. Final attempts were made to establish Quisling as a national figure with a semblance of independence. On 1 February 1942, Quisling was appointed Minister President. The real power remained, however, in German hands.
Film History: An International Journal, Mar 1, 2001
... The film's rhetorical position was largely an expression of disappointment in what w... more ... The film's rhetorical position was largely an expression of disappointment in what was believed to be a betrayal of the traditions of social democracy Bjorn Sorenssen is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Trondheim-NTNU, Norway. ...
Studies in Documentary Film, Mar 28, 2008
Page 1. Studies in Documentary Film Volume 2 Number 1 © 2008 Intellect Ltd Article. English langu... more Page 1. Studies in Documentary Film Volume 2 Number 1 © 2008 Intellect Ltd Article. English language. doi: 10.1386/sdf.2.1.47/1 Digital video and Alexandre Astruc's caméra-stylo: the new avant-garde in documentary realized? ...
Short film studies, Apr 1, 2015
Viewing Urząd as a film school production, this article focuses on Kieslowski's ingenious use of ... more Viewing Urząd as a film school production, this article focuses on Kieslowski's ingenious use of meagre resources to create a critical view of Polish bureaucracy, despite his inability to shoot synchronous sound when making this film. Urząd/The Office was made by Krzystof Kies´lowski in 1966 while he was a student in his second year at the Polish State Film School in Łódz. . This school was at the time highly respected internationally and among its teachers, alumni and students it could count names like Wanda Jakubowska, Kazimierz Karabasz, Andzej Wajda, Roman Polański and Jerzy Skolomowski. Among Kies´lowski´s contemporaries at the school were the later renowned directors Krzysztof Zanussi and Grzegorsz Królikiewicz, but just as important was the fact that he was at school with a new generation of Polish documentarists, such as Krzystof Wojciechowski, Marek Piwowski and, a few years later, Marcel Łozinski. This was a group of students who, according to Marek Haltof, 'developed and shaped documentary film in Poland in the years to come' (2004: 6). Kies´lowski clearly made documentary his first choice in cinematographic expression, both by writing his thesis on documentary film and in his choice of graduation film, Z miasta Łodzi/From the City of Łodz, which also was his first official film production, from 1969.
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Mar 25, 1994
Columbia University Press eBooks, Jun 25, 2013
While Joe Rosenthal´s photo of the U.S. marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima brought him instant ... more While Joe Rosenthal´s photo of the U.S. marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima brought him instant fame, Bill Genaust, the man who stood at his side capturing the moment on movie film, is forgotten, having been killed on he island a couple of days later. This article deals with Genaust´s 8-second shot of the flag raising and how it was and has been used in various documentary films, television series an, ultimately in fiction film, as in Clint Eastwood´s "Flags of Our Fathers".
Short film studies, 2021
This article deals with the role artificial language (pseudo-language) plays in this short film a... more This article deals with the role artificial language (pseudo-language) plays in this short film and draws parallels to other examples where pseudo-language has been used to achieve comic effect, from Chaplin’s Modern Times to contemporary use of the effect while emphasizing the concept of alienation in twentieth-century modernism.
The Nordic Media and the Cold War, 2015
The Cold War inevitably left its mark on the fledgling Norwegian film industry. This article draw... more The Cold War inevitably left its mark on the fledgling Norwegian film industry. This article draws special attention to renowned documentary film maker Knut Erik Jensen´s two fiction films "Brent av frost" (1997) and "Iskyss" (2008), both based on actual stories and dealing with Norwegians who became directly involved in the Cold War as servants to the Soviet intelligence service.