Gunnar Iversen

Gunnar Iversen works on film history, with an emphasis on Scandinavian and Norwegian cinema, documentary, and early and silent cinema. He also studies sound in film and television. He teaches courses on world cinema and film history, and sound in film and television.

Gunnar Iversen has published more than 20 books and 200 articles, in 8 different languages. He has co-written Nordic National Cinema (Routledge, 1998) and Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema(Scarecrow, 2012) and co-edited Beyond the Visual: Sound and Image in Ethnographic and Documentary Film, 2010).

Recent publications in English include:

“Between Art and Genre – An Introduction to New Nordic Horror Cinema,” in Mette Hjort and Ursula Lindqvist (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Nordic Cinema, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016; 332-350.

“Voices from the Past – Recent Nordic Historical Films,” in Tommy Gustafsson and Pietari Kääpä (eds.) Popular Nordic Genre Film: small nation film cultures in the global marketplace, Edinburg: Edinburgh University Press, 2015; 47-58.

“Arctic Carnivalesque: Ethnicity, Gender and Transnationality in the Films of Tommy Wirkola,” in Anna Stenport and Scott McKenzie (eds.) Films on Ice – Cinemas of the Arctic, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015; 106-117.

“Performing New Media and the Creation of National Identity – Kräusslich and Köpke in Norway before 1910,” in Kaveh Askari et. al. (eds.) Performing New Media, 1890-1915, London: John Libbey, 2014; 124-130.

“Roald Amundsen and the Documentary Canon,” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema vol. 3, no. 2 (2013): 151-155. (with Jan Anders Diesen).

“From Trauma to Heroism: Cultural Memory and Remembrance in Norwegian Occupation Dramas, 1946-2009,” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema vol. 2, no. 3 (2012): 237-248.

“‘And They Can See Half-Naked Dancers, Catching Young Men In Their Nets’: Teachers and the Cinema in Norway, 1907-1913,” in Marta Braun, et. al. (eds.): Beyond the Screen: Institutions, Networks and Publics of Early Cinema, London: John Libbey, 2012; 126-130.

“Inventing the Nation: Diorama in Norway 1888-1894,” Early Popular Visual Culture, vol. 9, no. 2 (May 2011): 119-125.

“‘Texas Norway’ – Mythic Space in Recent Norwegian Crime Films,” in Raphaëlle Moine, Brigitte Rollet, and Geneviève Sellier (eds.): Policiers et criminels : un genre populaire européen sur grand et petit écrans, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2009; 35-43.

“An Ocean of Sound and Image: YouTube in the Context of Supermodernity,” in Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau (eds.): The YouTube Reader, Stockholm: The National Library of Sweden, 2009; 347-357.

“Charismatic Ordinariness: Ullmann before Bergman,” in Tytti Soila (ed.): Stellar Encounters – Stardom in Popular European Cinema, London: John Libbey, 2009; 75-82.