Casper Tybjerg

Casper Tybjerg

Associate Professor

I am a film historian and particularly concerned with silent cinema and the films of Carl Theodor Dreyer. I have helped restore Dreyer’s films Once Upon a Time and Love One Another. I have recorded audio commentaries for DVD editions of La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, Michael, and Day of Wrath as well as for Benjamin Christensen's Häxan and Victor Sjöström's The Phantom Carriage. I am a former member of the board of the Society for the Cognitive Study of the Moving Image.

I contributed to Sight and Sound's 2012 and 2022 Greatest Films poll. Se my vote here.

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Primary fields of research

Carl Th. Dreyer, film history, film ecdotics

Current research

  • The rhetoric of film historiography
  • Historical films and cultural memory
  • Dreyer's La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc
  • Benjamin Christensen and his films
 

Teaching

Film History, Film Aesthetics, Film Analysis, Film Theory, Media History, Methodology of Film Studies

Selected publications

  1. Published

    Danish and German Silent Cinema: Towards a Common Film Culture

    Sørensen, L. (ed.) & Tybjerg, Casper (ed.), 2023, Edinburgh University Press. 256 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologypeer-review

  2. Published

    Lost Love on a Hot Summer Day: The Absorptive Experience of the First Film Show in Denmark

    Tybjerg, Casper, 2022, New Perspectives on Early Cinema History: Concepts, Approaches, Audiences. Slugan, M. & Biltereyst, D. (eds.). Bloomsbury Academic, p. 83-100 18 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    The Woman’s Point of View: Thora van Deken (1920)

    Tybjerg, Casper, 29 Sep 2017, In: Kosmorama. 269

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Devil-nets of clues: True Detective and the search for meaning

    Tybjerg, Casper, 1 Sep 2016, In: Nordic Journal of Media Studies. 14, p. 103-121 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Seeing through Spirits: Superimposition, Cognition, and The Phantom Carriage

    Tybjerg, Casper, 1 Aug 2016, In: Film History. 28, 2, p. 114–141 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Refusing the Reality Pill: A Film Studies Perspective on Prosthetic Memory

    Tybjerg, Casper, 10 Mar 2016, In: Kosmorama. 262

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Searching for Art’s Promised Land: Nordic Silent Cinema and the Swedish Example

    Tybjerg, Casper, 2016, A Companion to Nordic Cinema. Hjort, M. & Lindqvist, U. (eds.). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 271-290 20 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    ‘The Sown and the Waste’ – or, the Psychedelic Writing of Film History

    Tybjerg, Casper, 8 Nov 2013, In: NECSUS. 2, 2, p. 509-525 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Forms of the Intangible: Carl Th. Dreyer and the Concept of 'Transcendental Style'

    Tybjerg, Casper, 2008, In: Nordic Journal of Media Studies. 6, 1, p. 59-73 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Waking Life: Dreyer's Vampyr

    Tybjerg, Casper, 2008, In: Sight and Sound. 18, 9, p. 33-36 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

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