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.
- Film, TV and media history
- Narration, storytelling and screenwriting
- Visual aesthetics, sound, music and acting
- Cognition and reception studies
- Genre studies, in fiction, factual and hybrid forms
- Film and media production
- Distribution, exhibition and new digital platforms
- Cross-media strategies and storyworlds
- The creative media industries/cultural industries
- Curation, programming and scheduling
- Film and cultural policy
- Idea development and innovation strategies
- Visual strategic communication and project management
- Film and media marketing
- Representation and diversity in the media industries
- Labour studies and issues of sustainability
Projects
Reaching young audiences: Serial fiction and cross-media storyworlds for children and young audiences (RYA)
Funding: Independent Research Fund Denmark
Project period: 2019 - 2024
PI: Eva Novrup Redvall
Streaming for Talents: The Impact of Mass Media on Professional Images
Funding: The Graduate School Living.Diversity at Münster University.
Project period: 2023 - 2027
PI: Dr. Jochen Kinast
The New Nordic Cinema. A film studies project collaboration between the University of Copenhagen and Lund University
Funding: Einar Hansens Forskningsfond.
Project period: January 2022 - December 2023.
Project leaders: Associate Professor Eva Novrup Redvall, KU, and Professor Lars Gustaf Andersson, Lund University.
Research groups
Screening Europe - The State of Polycrisis in the European Audiovisual Industry
Research group director: Petar Mitric
A common film culture - Denmark and Germany in the silent movie era 1910-1930
Project period: 2019-2021
PI: Casper Tybjerg
Members of section
| Name | Title | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bondebjerg, Ib | Professor Emeritus | +4560241164 | |
| Breindahl, Charlie | Part-time Lecturer | +4535328100 | |
| Grodal, Torben Kragh | Associate Professor Emeritus | +4535328100 | |
| Hartvigson, Niels Henrik | Part-time Lecturer | +4535333172 | |
| Langkjær, Birger | Associate Professor | +4535328124 | |
| Mitric, Petar | Assistant Professor - Tenure Track | +4535322489 | |
| Pedersen, Oscar Waage Elbæk | PhD Fellow | +4535330818 | |
| Petersen, Kristoffer Rosbjerg | Part-time Lecturer | ||
| Redvall, Eva Novrup | Associate Professor - Promotion Programme | +4535329437 | |
| Riis, Johannes | Associate Professor | +4535329180 | |
| Schepelern, Peter | Associate Professor Emeritus | +4526118106 | |
| Tybjerg, Casper | Associate Professor | +4535328130 |
Contact
Head of Section: Associate Professor Eva Novrup Redvall
Other activities
Thursday 30/1 9:00-12:30
Joint TEACH workshop for the film section in room 14-4-32
Monday 3/2
Welcome to visiting PhD researcher Atalya De Cock from Ghent University
Tuesday 4/2 9:15 in the Cinematheque
The spring UCPH film screenings on Tuesdays at 9:15 start with a screening of Agnes Varda’s Sans toit, ni loi with an introduction by Casper Tybjerg
Friday 7/2 16:00
Research tour to the opening of the new Lars von Trier exhibition Breaking Darkness at Nikolaj Kirke
Tuesday 11/2 10:00-12:00
Section meeting in room 14-4-65-A with a presentation by visiting PhD researcher Atalya de Cock
Wednesday 5/3 9:00-11:00 in room 14-4-32
Section meeting in room 14-4-32 with research presentations
Wednesday 26/3 9:00-11:00
Section meeting in room 14-4-32 with research presentations
Tuesday 29/4 10:00-12:00
Section meeting in room 14-4-32 with research presentations
Tuesday 3/6
Section meeting in room 14-4-32 with research presentations