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Anna Sofia RossholmUniversitetslektor, docent

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Docent och ställföreträdande prefekt vid Institutionen för mediestudier. 

Undervisning

Undervisning om genus, svensk filmkultur, kulturkritik och ekokritik, samt handledning på kandidat-, master- och doktorandnivå. 

Med anledning av uppdraget som ställföreträdande prefekt är undervisningsuppdraget för närvarande begränsat. 

Forskning

Nuvarande forskningsprojekt (VR) handlar om författare som skriver för filmen, särskilt med fokus på Astrid Lindgrens, Stina Bergmans och Ulla Isakssons arbete med film.

Forskningsämnen: filmmanus, adaptation/transmedialitet, barnfilm, filmturism, ekokritik, kvinnors agens i filmskapande, Astrid Lindgrens filmskapande, Ingmar Bergmans filmskapande, filmpedagogik, representation av HIV, konstnärlig forskning.

Senaste monografi: Ingmar Bergman och den lekfulla skriften: ur arkivets samlingar av anteckningar och utkast (Makadam, 2017). 

https://www.makadambok.se/produkt/ingmar-bergman-och-den-lekfulla-skriften-studier-av-anteckningar-utkast-och-filmideer-i-arkivets-samlingar/

Publikationer som listas på DIVA via den här webbsidan är sådant som publicerats som anställd vid SU 2018. 

Forskningsprojekt

Ingmar Bergman och filmturismen

Projektet undersöker arvet efter Ingmar Bergman på Fårö som filmturism. Med aktiviteter som "Bergmansafari" i spåren av inspelningsplatser utgör Bergmanturismen ett unikt exempel på hur europeisk auteurfilm kan fungera som turistattraktion.

Forskning

Publikationer

I urval från Stockholms universitets publikationsdatabas

  • Women’s literary writing as a gateway to filmmaking: adaptation, screenwriting and gender in Swedish classical cinema

    2025. Anna Sofia Rossholm. Adaptation 18 (2), 1-15

    Artikel

    This study examines women’s screenwriting in the Swedish film industry in the period from the 1930s to the early 1960s, focussing on adaptation practices and professional mobility between the film and literary sectors. By combining a data survey of feature film adaptations with regard to gender, origin, and date of the literary precursor with analyses of production records, the analysis sheds light on how the film industry integrated writers from the literary sphere in screenwriting practices. In doing so, the study answers the question of how the relationship between the film and literature spheres influenced the opportunities available to women in screenwriting and how it shaped their authorial agency and status as filmmakers. 

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  • Travelling to Ingmar Bergman Land: Cinematic Tourism and Memories of Modernist Landscapes

    2025. Anna Sofia Rossholm. A Companion to Ingmar Bergman, 230-241

    Kapitel

    The small Swedish island of Fårö in the Baltic Sea, where Ingmar Bergman lived for part of his life and shot several important films, has over the past decade become a place of cinematic tourism based around the heritage of the director. With Bergman tourism as a case in point, this chapter reflects on the memory of the famed auteur and art cinema history in a contemporary context of film-related tourism. By focusing on a particular, famous case of art house cinema tourism, the chapter adds to new and alternative perspectives not only on Bergman as auteur but also on cinematic tourism at large, a field mainly preoccupied with more overtly commercial, typically Hollywood-related, movie culture. Bergman's modernist nature and landscape aesthetics, far beyond classical touristic landscapes, is reflected in how his characters perceive the environment.

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  • Astrid Lindgren’s Early Filmmaking: Transmediations Across Radio, Books, and Moving Images

    2024. Anna Sofia Rossholm Rossholm. Swedish Children's Cinema, 215-236

    Kapitel

    Astrid Lindgren is primarily regarded as a literary author, yet this overshadows the fact that her stories were – and continue to be – produced in continuous transformation between art and media forms. Her characters and stories migrate between radio, theater, comics, novels and picture books and in most cases Lindgren herself – in collaboration with illustrators, songwriters, film directors, etc. – is the main author of all these various adaptations. 

    This study discusses the movement across media in Lindgren’s work with a particular focus on the film medium. The point of departure are the early film productions from the mid-1950s, namely Rasmus and the Vagabond (Luffaren och Rasmus 1955), Rasmus, Pontus and Toker (Rasmus, Pontus och Toker 1956), and The Master Detective Lives Dangerously (Mästerdetektiven lever farligt 1957). These three films were initially made for radio, which provides an entry point into the relationship between film and audio media in Lindgren’s filmmaking and storytelling, a relationship that continues to define her work throughout her career. The material is approached from a perspective of transmedia storytelling in which the media versions of the story are regarded as an expansion of a larger fictional universe across multiple platforms without having an origin in any of them. In contrast to most adaptations and transmedia studies, the material of this analysis is not limited to the finished media products but also includes the drafts and notes of the early phases of the filmmaking process. 

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  • Ny blick på 1930-talsförfattarnas relation till film

    2024. Anna Sofia Rossholm. Filmrutan (3)

    Artikel

    Ingress: Karin Boye lika mycket på utbildningsfilmernas inverkan på folkhemmet som på fascismens framväxt när hon skrev Kallocain? Anna Sofia Rossholm har läst Johan Klingborgs Verkar film: 1930-talslitteraturen i det svenska filmnätverket, en avhandling som ger en ny bild av hur filmen präglade den tidens litterära sfär. 

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  • Screenwriting, authorship and gender in Swedish cinema of the 1940s: Dagmar Edqvist’s ‘The Ingegerd Bremssen case’

    2022. Anna Sofia Rossholm. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 12 (2), 179-186

    Artikel

    Through a case study analysis, this article suggests that women’s screen-writing in Sweden in the 1940s eluci-dates important aspects of cinematic authorship in relation to cultural hierarchies and gender. The analysis consists of a contextualized reading of the 1942 film Fallet Ingegerd Bremssen (‘The Ingegerd Bremssen case’), based on Dagmar Edqvist’s psychological novel about a rape and its after-effects, with a screenplay writ-ten by the author herself. A textual adaptation analysis – focusing on the screenwriting style and how the woman’s perspective and experience in the novel is transformed in the adaptation – is contextualized against the historical backdrop of the changes in screenwriting practices during this period as well as of the critical reception of the film. 

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  • Naturfilm

    2021. .

    Naturfilm består av tre kortare bildessäer som reflekterar över relationen mellan människa och natur i klassisk svensk naturdokumentärfilm. I arbetet belyses också hur distinktionen mellan natur och kultur förhandlas inom moderniteten. Essäerna omfattar reflektioner över landskapet, naturen som resurs, art- och genusrelationer, ursprungskulturer och mediets materialitet. I bildessäerna kombineras tecknade bilder med en berättarröst; teckningar av frysta filmbilder från dokumentärfilmer visas parallellt med berättarröstens fragmentariska reflektioner över bilden som representation och materiell inskription. Essäerna är mediala transformationer av svenska dokumentärfilmer från den klassiska erans höjdpunkt, mellan sent 1930-tal och det tidigt 1950-tal. Denna period sammanfaller med ’den stora accelerationen’, då exploateringen av naturens resurser ökar explosionsartat samtidigt som avståndet mellan människa och natur ökar.

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  • Bilden utanför boken: Appropriering av Pippi Långstrump i appar, spel och lek

    2019. Anna Sofia Rossholm, Elisa Rossholm. Astrid Lindgrens bildvärldar, 174-189

    Kapitel
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  • Moving Mountains: Cinema, Deep Time and Climate Change in Hanna Ljungh's I am Mountain, to Measure Impermanence

    2018. Anna Sofia Rossholm. Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment, 39-48

    Kapitel
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  • Witnessing AIDS in the Archive

    2018. Anna Sofia Rossholm, Beate Schirrmacher. A Visual History of HIV/AIDS

    Kapitel

    This article examines the Face of AIDS film archive from the perspective of witnessing, asking how different narratives both testify and bear witness to different experiences and changing perspectives. This approach has the potential to convey new insights into HIV and AIDS that go beyond the established facts and mainstream narratives.

    The article uses the case study of the 1988 interview with Lyle Taylor, a dying AIDS patient in Sydney, and its remediation within the archive. This was the filmmaker Staffan Hildebrand’s first interview with a person dying from AIDS. The analysis focuses on how witnessing relates the spoken word to its context. In exploring the remediation of this interview via edited material, the analysis shows how the same verbal testimony is changed by its context. In exploring the raw footage of the interview, different narratives that express and defend subjectivity bear witness to the experience of HIV and AIDS.

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