Malin Wahlberg
About me
Malin Wahlberg, Professor in Cinema Studies at IMS/SU
Since 2012, I am teaching classes on all levels at the Unit for Cinema Studies, courses include undergraduate classes on contemporary media cultures; documentary Cinema; Gender and Moving Images; Master class in Film and Media Theory, ”Film Experience: Theories and Approaches”. Publications in peer review journals, themed volumes, as well as reflection pieces and short essays for cultural journals and online venues result from my longstanding research interest in cinema and philosophy, in cinema as a temporal artform and as a ”technology of memory”, in film and historiography. I am fascinated with the cultural, social and ideological implications of cinema and film cultures; with the formative role of moving images in the production and re-production of cultural memory, including the creative approaches and critical inquiries by filmmakers and visual artists that result in thought-provoking allegories of cinema, or re-framings of visual practices and screen cultures.
In recent years, my research has included archive-based inquiries into documentary production in the context of early Swedish television. My theoretical work has also been inspired by contemporary gallery film and installations, in the productive overlap between documentary cinema and experimental film and video.
Books and Special Issues
Wahlberg, M., Documentary Time. Film and Phenomenology. Visible Evidence series, Volume 21, Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Jansson, Tobias och Wahlberg, M. red., TV-pionjärer och fria filmare (Stockholm: Mediehistoriskt arkiv, även tillgänglig som e-bok, 2008), https://mediehistorisktarkiv.se/bocker/tv-pionjarer-och-fria-filmare-en-bok-om-lennart-ehrenborg/
Hongisto, Ilona och Wahlberg, M., Special Issue: Scandinavian Documentary Cinema. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, Vol 6, no 2, 2016: 73-200.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
Wahlberg, M., ‘”Pensive Images” and Sounding Silence in the Films of Susana de Sousa Dias’, in Joshua Malitsky ed., The Documentary Moment (Forthcoming volume)
Peer review Articles
Wahlberg, M., ’Vietnam in transmission: Documentary film and solidarity programming in Swedish broadcasting culture (1967-72)’, in Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, vol 7, no 1, 2017: 43-64.
Hongisto, Ilona och Wahlberg, Malin., ’Contemporary Scandinavian Documentary Cinema’, in Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, vol 6, no 2, 2016: 77-80.
Wahlberg, M., ‘Artfilm in prime time. Educational programming, cultural heritage and experimental images in early Swedish television’, in Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, vol 5, no 3, 2016: 241-258.
Wahlberg, Malin., ‘Archives of the present − memory work in the making: ”Transmission from the Liberated Zones” (Filipa César, 2015)’, in ’Exhibition review section’, NECSUS, Amsterdam University Press, Spring 2017: https://necsus-ejms.org/archives-of-the-present-%e2%88%92-memory-work-in-the-making-transmission-from-the-liberated-zones-filipa-cesar-2015/
Wahlberg, M., ‘The Documentary Film Book’, in ‘Book review’ section, NECSUS, Amsterdam University Press, Summer 2015
Wahlberg, M., ‘Leviathan: From sensory ethnography to gallery film’, in ’Exhibition review section’, NECSUS, Amsterdam University Press, Fall 2014.
Other Articles and Research Papers
Wahlberg, M., ”I närkontakt med naturen”, Om naturfilm och Sucksdorffs kortfilm *Trut!* för Svensk filmdatabas 2023: https://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/sv/i-narkontakt-med-naturen/
Wahlberg, M., ”Greta/I am Greta”, FLM Weekend 18 nov, 2020: https://flm.nu/author/malin-wahlberg/
Wahlberg, M., ”Dokumentära spår i Filmforms samling” i Anna-Karin Larsson red., Filmform 1950-2020. Stockholm: Stiftelsen Filmform, 2020, 17-20.
Wahlberg, M., ”Passageraren, eller hur jag tycker det är att resa. Representationskritik och filosofisk folkbildning på bästa sändningstid”, i Andreas Holmström, Apropå Eric M. En antologi om Eric M. Nilssons filmer. Stockholm: Trolltrumma förlag, 2019
Wahlberg, M., ”Agnès Varda gav egna svar på dokumentärfilmens frågor”, i FLN, 2019:
https://flm.nu/2019/03/agnes-varda-gav-egna-svar-pa-dokumentargenrens-fragor/
Wahlberg, M., ”Screaming Silences and Stitches for Life: Aesthetics of Resistance From Within Sápmi”, paper presented at Visible Evidence XXX Conference: Decentering Documentary: New Visions and Perspectives, Melbourne, Dec 17-20, 2024
Wahlberg, M., ”3:2 Artifice and Authenticity. Reflections on Documentary Enactment” Preconstituted panel at Visible Evidence XIV, USC, Los Angeles, July 23, 2019
Wahlberg, M., ”Documentary Mise-en-Scène: Collaborate Gestures of Enactment and Voice” paper at panel (above), VE XIV, USC, LA, July 23, 2019
Wahlberg, M., “Documenteur. A Film by Agnès Varda. (An Emotion Picture) (1981), In memory of Agnès Varda”. Keynote presentation at VE XIV, USC, LA, July 25, 2019.
Wahlberg, M., ’”Det var då i TV2”: Vietnamkriget och det politiska sjuttiotalet’, in Ord&Bild 3-4 2016: Kulturarv
Wahlberg, M., ‘Vittnesmålet och den hörbara tystnaden i 48’, in Walden. Tidskrift för filmkritik, Nr. 3-4, höst/vinter 2016: 81-87.
Andersson, Axel och Wahlberg, Malin., ’In the Wake of a Postwar Adventure: Myths and Media Technologies in the Making of Kon-Tiki’, in Eirik Frisvold Hanssen ed., Small Countries, Long Journeys. (Oslo: Nota Bene 10, National Library of Norway, 2017), 178-211.
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