Cinema Studies
Themes and approaches in cinema studies vary over time. Nonetheless, the focus is always on the ability to analyse moving images and to place film in context.
Stockholm University has one of the foremost research centres for cinema studies in Europe, with contributions from many international scholars. Research into early cinema, creators and auteurs (including Ingmar Bergman) are some of the key areas, as well as gender and postcolonial perspectives on film. Recent technological developments, which have led to many new ways to produce, distribute and show films, have also created new fields of research.
Cinema studies research borders several other disciplines, such as history, journalism, art and fashion, and philosophy. For example, some of the current projects are concerned with the view on physicality in the television series CSI, the conditions for producing films at different time periods, how contemporary Swedish cinema affects the image of Sweden internationally, as well as research on intermediality and the role of cinema in contemporary art.
Film archives have a central role for most researchers, for example, the television archive, the Swedish Film Institute archive and the Department of Audiovisual Material at the National Library of Sweden. The recent digitisation of archives has provided researchers with new opportunities, such as studying early television. The research in cinema studies is funded by the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish Central Bank's Jubilee Fund.
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Paul Parker
Last updated:
November 23, 2011
Source: Communications Office
