Film studies and creative media industries

The Section of Film studies and creative media industries brings together scholars, teachers and students with an interest in film studies from the silent film era to the current film and media landscape. The focus is on film, TV and visual digital storytelling as art and cultural practice. The section also works with production, distribution, exhibition and promotion in the creative media industries in a time marked by cross-media formats and new platforms.

The Section of Film Studies and Creative Media Industries brings together scholars, teachers and students with an interest in film studies from the silent film era to the current film and media landscape. The focus is on film, TV and visual digital storytelling as art and cultural practice, based on theories about e.g. narration, aesthetics and cognition.

The section also works with production, distribution, exhibition and promotion in the creative media industries and at specific cultural institutions, from idea development, innovation strategies and strategic communication related to new productions and projects to their circulation, target groups and reception in a time marked by cross-media formats and new platforms. The section has a close collaboration with the Nordic film and media industries as well as a number of public and private partners.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A common film culture? - Denmark and Germany in the silent film era, 1910-1930COMMON FILM CULTURE? – DENMARK AND GERMANY IN THE SILENT FILM ERA, 1910-1930
Principal investigator at KU: Casper Tybjerg

The three-year research project (2019-2021) maps Danish-German interrelationships and entanglements in the silent period, at both individual, artistic, and film industry levels. It is part of the Danish Film Institute’s big silent film project, financed by three private foundations, which will lead to all Danish silent films being digitized and made available online.

Read more about the project "A common film culture".

Reaching young audiences: Serial fiction and cross-media storyworlds for children and young audiences (RYA)

Funding: Independent Research Fund Denmark
Principal investigator: Eva Novrup Redvall
Research team: Christa Lykke Christensen, KU, Pia Majbritt Jensen, AAU, Petar Mitric and several others

Read more about the RYA-project.

Screening Europe - The State of Polycrisis in the European Audiovisual Industry

The new research group Screening Europe “is screening” how the state of global polycrisis has impacted the European film and television industries. It focusses on challenges associated with digitization, globalization, the environmental crisis and political paradigm shifts in Europe, just as it investigates the new role of film scholars in discussing, formulating and evaluating the policy solutions to the screen industry crisis. The research group is funded by the Center for Modern European Studies (CEMES) for the period of three years (2024-2027) and gathers scholars across the Oresund region.
Research group director: Petar Mitric

Read more about the project "Screening Europe".

Streaming for Talents: The Impact of Mass Media on Professional Images

Funding: The Graduate School Living.Diversity at Münster University.
Principal investigator: Dr. Jochen Kinast

Read more about the project "Streaming for Talents".

The New Nordic Cinema. A film studies project collaboration between the University of Copenhagen and Lund University

Funded by Einar Hansens Forskningsfond.
Project period: January 2022-December 2023.
Project leaders: Associate Professor Eva Novrup Redvall, KU, and Professor Lars Gustaf Andersson, Lund University.

The purpose of the project is to create strong long-term collaborations between the film studies scholars at the University of Copenhagen and Lund, in relation to both educational programmes in the Øresund region and future research applications, publications and projects.

For more information, please contact Eva Novrup Redvall, eva@hum.ku.dk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Members of section

Name Title Phone E-mail
Bondebjerg, Ib Professor Emeritus +4560241164 E-mail
Breindahl, Charlie Part-time Lecturer +4535328100 E-mail
Grodal, Torben Kragh Associate Professor Emeritus +4535328100 E-mail
Hartvigson, Niels Henrik Part-time Lecturer +4535333172 E-mail
Jørholt, Eva Associate Professor +4535328112 E-mail
Langkjær, Birger Associate Professor +4535328124 E-mail
Mitric, Petar Assistant Professor - Tenure Track +4535322489 E-mail
Pedersen, Oscar Waage Elbæk PhD Fellow +4535330818 E-mail
Petersen, Kristoffer Rosbjerg Part-time Lecturer E-mail
Redvall, Eva Novrup Associate Professor - Promotion Programme +4535329437 E-mail
Riis, Johannes Associate Professor +4535329180 E-mail
Schepelern, Peter Associate Professor Emeritus +4526118106 E-mail
Tybjerg, Casper Associate Professor +4535328130 E-mail

Contact

Head of Section: Associate Professor Eva Novrup Redvall

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Film Section Meetings

All meetings are in room 14-4-32.

  • Monday 19 August 16:00 – Section meeting and tour of the new ’film roof’ of The Danish Film Institute

  • Tuesday 17 September 10:00-12 – Section meeting

  • Monday 7 October 13:00-15 – Section meeting and presentation by Madeleine Schlawitz from The Royal Library

  • Tuesday 29 October 10:00-11 – Section meeting before the department meeting

  • Tuesday 19 November 10:00-12 – Section meeting with presentations

  • Tuesday 17/12 10:00-11 – Section meeting before the department meeting