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Bjørn Sørenssen

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Bjørn Sørenssen

Professor emeritus

bjorn.sorenssen@ntnu.no
+4790611784 Bygg 8, 8341, Dragvoll, Edvard Bulls veg 1
About Publications

About

Bjørn Sørenssen

POSITION: Professor emeritus

FIELD OF STUDY: Film studies, media studies, new media technology
SEKSJON: Seksjon for film og bildemedier

Bjørn Sørenssen i bibsys

Bjørn Sørenssen i frida

PROJECTS:

Digital Eye - Documentary and Realism in the Age of Audiovisual Convergence. New Modes of Articulation and Social Participation. Prosjekt finansiert gjennom NFRs program KIM (Kommunikasjon, informasjonsteknologi og medier).

Cinema and Emerging European Nations (CEEN) International network for research on national film history and the construction of the national.

Local film - global medium. Film production in Trondheim 1906 - 1955.

COST Action A30 - East of West - Setting a New Central and Eastern Eurpean Media Research Agenda

Moving Testimonies: New Documentary Assemblages. International book projects under the leadership of Janet Walker og Bhaskar Sarkar, University of California at Santa Barbara

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Film history, documentary, new media technology, digital media

 

Publications

  • Chronological
  • By category
  • All publications registered in NVA

2021

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2021) Verfremdung/entfremdung and modernism: ‘pseudo-language’ in la vis. Short Film Studies
    Academic article
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn; Werenskjold, Rolf; Hochscherf, Tobias. (2021) Dissent and dissidents in central and eastern european film. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
    Academic article

2020

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2020) Arnljot Berg og "Bobbys krig".
    Academic chapter

2019

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2019) Olav Dalgard - Politics, Film, Theatre and the Avant-Garde in Norway in the Interwar Years.
    Academic chapter

2018

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2018) Orions Belte: The Birth of the Norwegian “High-Concept” Movie in the Shadow of the Second Cold War.
    Academic chapter

2017

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2017) Thor Iversen and Arctic Expedition Film on the Geographical and Documentary Fringe in the 1930s.
    Academic chapter

2016

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2016) Lindsay Anderson:The Polish Connection.
    Academic chapter

2015

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2015) The restraints and opportunities of film school productions: Urzad in context. Short Film Studies
    Academic article
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2015) Frozen Kisses. Cinematographical Reflections on Norway´s role in the Cold War.
    Academic chapter

2014

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2014) Digital Diffusion of Delusions: A World Wide Web of Conspiracy Documentaries.
    Academic chapter

2013

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2013) The Forgotten Cinematographer of Mount Suribachi: Bill Genaust´s Eight-Second Iwo Jima Footage and the Historical Facsimile.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2013) Eating Out and Norwegian "dirty realism". Short Film Studies
    Academic article

2012

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2012) The Polish Black Series Documentary and the British Free Cinema Movement.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn; Salmi, Hannu; Kau, Edvin Vestergaard; Olsson, Jan. (2012) World War II and Scandinavian Cinema: An Overview. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
    Academic article
  • Winkel, Roel Vande; Jönsson, Mats; Sørensen, Lars-Martin; Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2012) German film distribution in Scandinavia during World War II. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
    Academic article
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2012) From Playground to Frozen Hell. Winter Landscape and Masculinity as a Theme in Some Norwegian Films.
    Academic chapter

2011

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2011) From Will to Reality - Norwegian Film During the Nazi Occupation, 1940 - 1945.
    Academic chapter

2010

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2010) A Fly on the Wall. On Dom kallar oss mods and the Mods Trilogy.
    Academic chapter

2009

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2009) Breaking the Age Barrier in the Internet Age:The Story of Geriatric1927.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2009) Dokumentarfilmens "Basic Story" og "Standard Version" - noen historiografiske overlegninger.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2009) From "Super Babies" and "Nazi Bastards" to Victims Finding a Voice. The Memory Trajectory of the Norwegian Lebensborn Children.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2009) A Modern Medium for a Modern Message.Norsk Jernverk 1947-1974,Through the Camera Lens.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2009) The “Socially Useful” in Public Broadcasting: Between Idealism and Utilitarianism – the Griersonian Element in a Tradition. Medijska Istrazivanja
    Academic article

2008

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2008) Digital Video and Alexandre Astruc´s "caméra stylo": the new avant-garde in documentary realized?. Studies in Documentary Film
    Academic article

2005

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2005) Heftig og begeistret/Cool and Crazy.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2005) Hrafn Gunnlaugsson�The Viking Who Came in from the Cold?.
    Academic chapter

2003

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2003) Meeting MAN OF MARBLE In Nowa Huta: �Visual Eloquence� and Documentary Form.
    Academic chapter

2001

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2001) Radical Romanticism in Scandinavian Documentary: The Norwegian Nature Meme in "For harde livet". Film History. An International Journal
    Academic article
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2001) Å fange virkeligheten. Dokumentarfilmens århundre. Universitetsforlaget
    Academic monograph

2000

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2000) The Truman Show - Film,Television and the Convergence of Private and Public Space.
    Academic chapter

1996

  • Dahl, Hans Fredrik; Gripsrud, Jostein; Iversen, Gunnar; Skretting, Kathrine; Sørenssen, Bjørn. (1996) Kinoens mørke, og fjernsynets lys : film og fjernsyn i Norge gjennom hundre år. Gyldendal Litteratur
    Non-fiction monograph

1994

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (1994) "I Have a Plan!" The Olsen Gang Captures Denmark and Norway: Negotiating the Popular Culture Gap. The Velvet Light Trap
    Academic article
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (1994) Kyberkultur i hverdagen. Tendens (Kultursociologisk Forening)
    Academic article

1992

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (1992) Från Foxjournal til CNN - Om informationens fiktionalisering som nyhetsformat. Filmhäftet
    Academic article

1991

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (1991) The Voice of Reconstruction: the Norwegian Post-war Newsreel as History of a Mentality.
    Academic chapter

1989

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (1989) Forfattere ved samlebåndet: Screenwriter-profesjonen i Hollywoods gullalder. Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning
    Academic article

1986

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (1986) The Documentary Aesthetics of Humphrey Jennings.
    Academic chapter

1983

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (1983) Fra Joseph Conrads "Heart of Darkness" over T.S.Eliot til Francis Coppolas "Apocalypse Now". En filmklassiker fra 1979 og dens litterære bakgrunn. Vinduet
    Popular science article

1982

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (1982) Arbeiderfilmen i Norge 1928 - 1940. Tidsskrift for arbeiderbevegelsens historie
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn; Salmi, Hannu; Kau, Edvin Vestergaard; Olsson, Jan. (2012) World War II and Scandinavian Cinema: An Overview. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
    Academic article
  • Winkel, Roel Vande; Jönsson, Mats; Sørensen, Lars-Martin; Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2012) German film distribution in Scandinavia during World War II. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
    Academic article
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (1983) Fra Joseph Conrads "Heart of Darkness" over T.S.Eliot til Francis Coppolas "Apocalypse Now". En filmklassiker fra 1979 og dens litterære bakgrunn. Vinduet
    Popular science article
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2001) Radical Romanticism in Scandinavian Documentary: The Norwegian Nature Meme in "For harde livet". Film History. An International Journal
    Academic article
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2021) Verfremdung/entfremdung and modernism: ‘pseudo-language’ in la vis. Short Film Studies
    Academic article
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2015) The restraints and opportunities of film school productions: Urzad in context. Short Film Studies
    Academic article
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2009) The “Socially Useful” in Public Broadcasting: Between Idealism and Utilitarianism – the Griersonian Element in a Tradition. Medijska Istrazivanja
    Academic article
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2013) Eating Out and Norwegian "dirty realism". Short Film Studies
    Academic article
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn; Werenskjold, Rolf; Hochscherf, Tobias. (2021) Dissent and dissidents in central and eastern european film. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
    Academic article
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (1989) Forfattere ved samlebåndet: Screenwriter-profesjonen i Hollywoods gullalder. Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning
    Academic article
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (1994) "I Have a Plan!" The Olsen Gang Captures Denmark and Norway: Negotiating the Popular Culture Gap. The Velvet Light Trap
    Academic article
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (1992) Från Foxjournal til CNN - Om informationens fiktionalisering som nyhetsformat. Filmhäftet
    Academic article
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (1982) Arbeiderfilmen i Norge 1928 - 1940. Tidsskrift for arbeiderbevegelsens historie
    Academic article
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (1994) Kyberkultur i hverdagen. Tendens (Kultursociologisk Forening)
    Academic article
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2008) Digital Video and Alexandre Astruc´s "caméra stylo": the new avant-garde in documentary realized?. Studies in Documentary Film
    Academic article

Books

  • Dahl, Hans Fredrik; Gripsrud, Jostein; Iversen, Gunnar; Skretting, Kathrine; Sørenssen, Bjørn. (1996) Kinoens mørke, og fjernsynets lys : film og fjernsyn i Norge gjennom hundre år. Gyldendal Litteratur
    Non-fiction monograph
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2001) Å fange virkeligheten. Dokumentarfilmens århundre. Universitetsforlaget
    Academic monograph

Part of book/report

  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2009) Breaking the Age Barrier in the Internet Age:The Story of Geriatric1927.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2012) The Polish Black Series Documentary and the British Free Cinema Movement.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2009) Dokumentarfilmens "Basic Story" og "Standard Version" - noen historiografiske overlegninger.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2018) Orions Belte: The Birth of the Norwegian “High-Concept” Movie in the Shadow of the Second Cold War.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2020) Arnljot Berg og "Bobbys krig".
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2003) Meeting MAN OF MARBLE In Nowa Huta: �Visual Eloquence� and Documentary Form.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2009) From "Super Babies" and "Nazi Bastards" to Victims Finding a Voice. The Memory Trajectory of the Norwegian Lebensborn Children.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2016) Lindsay Anderson:The Polish Connection.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2011) From Will to Reality - Norwegian Film During the Nazi Occupation, 1940 - 1945.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2009) A Modern Medium for a Modern Message.Norsk Jernverk 1947-1974,Through the Camera Lens.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2005) Heftig og begeistret/Cool and Crazy.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2019) Olav Dalgard - Politics, Film, Theatre and the Avant-Garde in Norway in the Interwar Years.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2017) Thor Iversen and Arctic Expedition Film on the Geographical and Documentary Fringe in the 1930s.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2010) A Fly on the Wall. On Dom kallar oss mods and the Mods Trilogy.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2013) The Forgotten Cinematographer of Mount Suribachi: Bill Genaust´s Eight-Second Iwo Jima Footage and the Historical Facsimile.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2012) From Playground to Frozen Hell. Winter Landscape and Masculinity as a Theme in Some Norwegian Films.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2005) Hrafn Gunnlaugsson�The Viking Who Came in from the Cold?.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2015) Frozen Kisses. Cinematographical Reflections on Norway´s role in the Cold War.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2000) The Truman Show - Film,Television and the Convergence of Private and Public Space.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (1986) The Documentary Aesthetics of Humphrey Jennings.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (2014) Digital Diffusion of Delusions: A World Wide Web of Conspiracy Documentaries.
    Academic chapter
  • Sørenssen, Bjørn. (1991) The Voice of Reconstruction: the Norwegian Post-war Newsreel as History of a Mentality.
    Academic chapter

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