Contributors

Contributors

aNgela Dalle vacche is Professor Emerita at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her areas of inquiry are the historiography of classical film theory, history in film, cinema and painting, colour in film, the museum film, film and science, and early cinema and women. She has published numerous articles and written several books, including The Body in The Mirror: Shapes of History in Italian Cinema (1992); Cinema and Painting: How Art is Used in Film (1996); Diva: Defiance and Passion: Italian Women and Early Cinema (2008). Her latest book is Andre Bazin’s Film Theory: Art, Science, Religion (2020).

bo FloriN is Professor of Cinema Studies at the Department for Media Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden. Publications include: Moderna motiv, Mauritz Stiller i retrospektiv (ed, 2001); Regi: Victor Sjöström/Directed by Victor Seastrom (2003); Transition and Transformation: Victor Sjöström in Hollywood 1924-1930 (2013) and (together with Patrick Vonderau) A Tale from Constantinople. The History of a Film that Never Was (2019). eirik FriSvolD haNSSeN is a research librarian in the Department of Collections and Research at the National Library of Norway. He has a PhD in Cinema Studies from Stockholm University (2006) and is the co-editor of Adaptation Studies: New Challenges, New Directions (2013, with Jørgen Bruhn and Anne Gjelsvik) and Small Country, Long Journeys: Norwegian Expedition Films (2017, with Maria Fosheim Lund).

thor holt is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo, and was a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley in 2021–22 with a research project on Ibsen in Weimar cinema. Holt earned his PhD in 2020 with a dissertation on Ibsen adaptations in Nazi cinema. He is currently revising the dissertation and working on the interconnections between Ibsen and German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

rob kiNg is a professor of Film and Media Studies at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He is the author of Hokum! The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture (2017) and the award-winning The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture (2009). He is currently working on a monograph on adult filmmaker Radley Metzger and an edited collection on mystery writer Cornell Woolrich.

Maria FoSheiM luND is a PhD candidate at the University of Oslo in the Department for Media and Communication. She is currently on leave from her position as a research librarian in the Section for Visual Media and Conservation at the National Library of Norway. She is the editor, together with Eirik Frisvold Hanssen, of the anthology Small Country, Long Journeys: Norwegian Expedition Films (2017).

elleN reeS is professor of Scandinavian Literature at the University of Oslo’s Centre for Ibsen Studies. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1995. In addition to broader questions concerning the intersection between literary and cultural history, she has published widely on film adaptation, most recently in an article in Journal of Aesthetics and Culture co-written with Thor Holt on Steven Spielberg’s Jaws and Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People (2022). Her latest book, Den populærkulturelle Ibsen: Studier i nyere norsk resepsjon (The Pop-Cultural Ibsen: Studies in Recent Norwegian Reception), is forthcoming with Scandinavian Academic Press. Mark b. SaNDberg is Professor of Scandinavian and Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley. His research centers on questions of comparative media history and late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century visual cultures, including the intermedial history of literature, recording technologies, museum display, theater, and silent film. He has also developed research specialties in Norwegian literature and cultural history, Scandinavian film history, literary and film historiography, and serial television. He is the author of Living Pictures, Missing Persons: Mannequins, Museums, and Modernity (Princeton UP, 2003) and Ibsen’s Houses: Architectural Metaphor and the Modern Uncanny (Cambridge UP, 2015).

ali yalgıN is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Theatre and Performance at Columbia University. His current research focuses on post-Cold War era theatre and performance, realism, and human rights. Outside academia, Ali works as a freelance theatre director and teaching artist in his hometown Istanbul, Turkey. His first encounter with Ibsen was in 2011, when he was an exchange student at the University of Oslo and volunteered as a production assistant in Visjoner Teater’s production of Hedda Gabler at Sæterhytten.