The project ”Advertising and the Transformation of Screen Cultures” studies moving image advertisements from different angles and in this way develops new historical, methodological, and theoretical perspectives.

The project sets out to depict the Swedish history of the legendary documentary Finally Got the News (1970), a collaboration between Newsreel and The League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit.

Project about Swedish literary authors working for the film industry in the classical period (1930s-1950s). Case studies on Astrid Lindgren and Stina Bergman are in process, and will be followed by studies on Ulla Isaksson, Vilhelm Moberg, Per Anders Fogelström and Ivar Lo-Johansson.

The research project focuses on the experience of the cinematic image as a social situation, studying curatorial processes in contemporary moving image art.

This project investigates the intersection of surrealism and documentary across media and art forms. It argues that documentary strategies are central for international surrealism, including both historic and contemporary practice.

With the Ingmar Bergman tourism on the island Fårö as case in point, this project examines the memory of arthouse or auteur cinema as an experience of a place in a contemporary context of cinematic tourism.

This project analyzes how films, in their respective social and cultural contexts, have enacted a form of micropolitics that worked towards the goal of naturalizing the consumption of oil.

The PhD research project 'Navigating audiovisual legitimacy: Films and television commissioned by Norwegian and Swedish mining companies and their useful networks 1945-75' is led by Ole Johnny Fossås, PhD candidate, Department of Media Studies. Supervisors: professor Marina Dahlquist and professor Bo Florin, Department of Media Studies.

This project offers a critical consideration of the thought of prominent psychologist, theorist, and critic Rudolf Arnheim in relation to the fields of cinema and media studies today.

The project is an interdisciplinary study of Swedish nature documentaries from the 1940’s and 1950’s, combining theoretical perspectives from eco-critical and childhood studies within a cinema studies framing.

The main purpose of the project 'The Histories of the New American Cinema Expositions in Europe, 1964 and 1967-1968: The Emergence and Diversity of European Experimental Film Cultures' is to write the histories of the New American Cinema (NAC) Expositions in Europe during the years 1964 and 1967-68.

Saki Kobayashi's dissertation 'They called me 'hot-blooded': Exploring Viveca Lindfors' transnational stardom and Swedish film star culture in the 1940's', analyses Viveca Lindfors' career in the 1940's to answer several questions about film stars role and meaning in society from sociopolitical and industrial perspective.

Interdisciplinary project studying the conditions for women working in the Swedish film industry, funded by Riksbankens jubileumsfond.

This dissertation «"I want to be a lesbian icon": Constructing and (re-)negotiating queer female stardom in the age of visibility» explores the phenomenon of the lesbian icon and her contradictory position - simultaneously relying on and denying queer female visibility - in the contemporary mainstream media landscape.