Publications

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Abbas Kiarostami's Shirin and the Aesthetics of Ethical Intimacy," Film Criticism, 37.2 (2013): 22-37.

Asbjørn Grønstad & Øyvind Vågnes, "Leder," Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur, 4.1 (2013).

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Images Opaque and Precarious: On Ernie Gehr and the Boundaries of Discernibility." The Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2013, Chicago, March 6-10, 2013.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Writing Seeing: Transaesthetic Resonances in Still Life with Oysters and Lemon and Point Omega." In Literatura e criatividade, eds. Heidrun Krieger Olinto & Karl Erik Schøllhammer. Rio de Janeiro: 7 Letras, 2012.

Henrik Gustafsson, "Foresight, Hindsight, and Blind Spots: Mapping State Secrecy in the American West." Paper at the 6th Nomadikon Meeting: Ecologies of Seeing or Seeing Whole: Images and Space, Images within Images, The Collage of Saint Rose, Albany, New York, September 27-29, 2012.

Asbjørn Grønstad & Øyvind Vågnes, "Now! Visual Culture: The International Association of Visual Culture Studies, New York City, May 31 - June 2, 2012." Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2012.  

Asbjørn Grønstad & Øyvind Vågnes, Leder. Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur. Vol. 3, no. 2, 2012.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Enfolded By Cinema: The Transvisual Gaze in Tsai Ming-liang's Visage." Paper at the 6th Nomadikon Meeting: Ecologies of Seeing or Seeing Whole: Images and Space, Images within Images, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York, September 27-29, 2012.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Ekphrasis Refigured: Writing Seeing in Siri Hustvedt's What i Loved." In Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 45.3, 2012.

Asbjørn Grønstad & Henrik Gustafsson, Ethics and Images of Pain, New York: Routledge, 2012.

Asbjørn Grønstad & Henrik Gustafsson, "Introduction." In Ethics and Images of Pain, New York: Routledge, 2012.

Øyvind Vågnes, “The Unsettling Moment: On Mathilde ter Heijne's Suicide Trilogy.” In Asbjørn Grønstad and Henrik Gustafsson, eds., Ethics and Images of Pain (London: Routledge 2012), pp. 144-158.

Asbjørn Grønstad & Øyvind Vågnes, "Objekt og Nettverk: Et Møte med David Joselit." Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift For Visuell Kultur, 3.1 (2012), 52-59. With Øyvind Vågnes.

Asbjørn Grønstad & Øyvind Vågnes, "Leder." Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift For Visuell Kultur, 3.1 (2012), 1-2. With Øyvind Vågnes.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Taxonomies of Violence." Paper at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference 2012. Boston, March 21-25.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Making Humanity Strange to Itself: On Errol Morris and Werner Herzog." In Margareth Hagen, Randi Koppen and Margery Vibe Skagen, eds., The Human and Its Limits: Explorations in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts. Oslo: Scandinavian Academic Press, 2012.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Mørkredd." Intervju i Aktuelt. 22. februar 2012.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Sirkus Uten Stor Betydning." Intervju i Studvest. 22. februar 2012.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Is There a Transmedial Dispositif? Aesthetic Epistemes and the Question of Disciplinarity."The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics. No. 42, 2012.

Henrik Gustafsson, (In)site Sagalassos: From Where We Stand. Text for portfolio with photographs by Bruno Vandermeulen and Danny Veys. Brussels: Sint-Lukas Books, 2011.

Henrik Gustafsson, "Beyond Location: Vertigo and the Capacity for Wonder" in The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo: Place, Pilgrimage, and Commemoration, ed. Douglas A. Cunningham, Lanham, Toronto, Plymouth: The Scarecrow Press, 2011.

Henrik Gustafsson, "War Stories, Crime Stories and Ghost Stories" in Imaging History: Photography after the fact, eds. Bruno Vandermeulen and Danny Veys, Brussel: ASA Publishers, 2011.

Henrik Gustafsson, "Splitting Sightlines: Immersion and Withdrawal in the Films of Claire Denis." Image=Gesture: The 5th Nomadikon Meeting. Bergen, November 9-12, 2011.

Asbjørn Grønstad, Screening the Unwatchable: Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 

Øyvind Vågnes, Talk at Seminar organized by Norwegian Researcher Training School, Text-Image-Sound-Space, "Tenkning og skrift," December 8, 2011.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Comics as Documentarism." Guest lecture for the Multikul group, University of Agder, Kristiansand, December 6, 2011.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Bare Gesture." Image=Gesture: The 5th Nomadikon Meeting. Bergen, November 9-12.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "A Cinema of Gestures: Claire Denis's 35 Shots of Rum." Image=Gesture: The 5th Nomadikon Meeting. Bergen, November 9-12.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Words of Welcome." Image=Gesture: The 5th Nomadikon Meeting. Bergen, November 9-12.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Mer enn tusen ord." Intervju i Aktuelt. November 8.

Asbjørn Grønstad & Øyvind Vågnes, " Leder," Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur, 2.2 (2011), 85-86. 

Henrik Gustafsson, "The Country, the City, and the Scene of the Crime: On Claude Lanzmann" in Urban Images: Unruly Desires in Film and Architecture, eds. Synne Bull and Marit Paasche, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2011.

Henrik Gustafsson, "From Scopic Regimes to Scotopic Vision: Mapping Dark Geography." Media Acts, Trondheim, October, 26-28.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Fantasmatic Documentarism? Reconsidering Standard Operating Procedure." Keynote lecture, Looking for Reality - Looking at Reality, University of Copenhagen, October 5, 2011.

Tonje Sørensen, "Of Silence and Remembrance: Knut Erik Jensen's Film Stella Polaris as re-telling, re-remembering of the Second World War." The Fifth Nomadikon Meeting: Image=Gesture, Bergen, November 9.-12.

Tonje Sørensen, "The Role of the Mosaic in 19th-Century Germany - Constructing an imperial memory of Byzantium." Wanted: Byzantium. Nordic Byzantium Network Conference, September 26-29.

Henrik Gustafsson, "Site, Speech and Silence." Hollow Land: Landscape, Memory, Politics. Bergen, September 20, 2011.

Øyvind Vågnes, "What Has Happened in a Place is Always Happening: Reflections on Footnotes in Gaza." Hollow Land: Landscape, Memory, Politics. Bergen, September 20, 2011.

Henrik Gustafsson, "Territories of Never-Ending War: Trevor Paglen and the Agency of Dark Geographies." Visible Evidence 18, New York City, August 11-14, 2011.

Øyvind Vågnes, Zaprudered: The Kennedy Assassination Film in Visual Culture. Austin: Texas University Press, 2011.

Øyvind Vågnes, "The Unmaking of the World," in "The Aesthetics of Atrocity," a special issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Summer 2011.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Images from the Dark Side: Picturing the War on Terror." Visible Evidence 18, New York City, August 11-14, 2011.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "On the Unwatchable." In The New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe, eds. Tanya Horeck and Tina Kendall, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Writing Seeing (2): The Ekphrastic Impulse." X. Seminário Internacional de Estudos de Literatura Criatividade Sem Limite? Rio de Janeiro, June 20-21.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Writing Seeing (1): Transaesthetic Resonance in Still Life with Oysters and Lemon and Point Omega." X. Seminário Internacional de Estudos de Literatura Criatividade Sem Limite? Rio de Janeiro, June 20-21.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Fotografiets vitnesbyrd: Jacob Holdts arkiv." On Jacob Holdt's photography. Hå gamle prestegård, June 5, 2011.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "'Clear-eyed visions of the Particular:' Transaesthetic Resonance in Mark Doty's Still Life with Oysters and Lemon and Don DeLillo's Point Omega." 22th Annual American Literature Association Conference, Boston, May 26-29, 2011.

Tonje Sørensen, "Norsk Krigsfilm og det Erindringsteoretiske Perspektiv: Tilfellet Kalde Spor." In Norsk Medietidsskrift, 18.1 p. 4-18.

Asbjørn Grønstad and Øyvind Vågnes, ”Interview with Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors.” Journal of American Studies 45 (2011), e16. doi:10.1017/S0021875810002379, 5-29.

Asbjørn Grønstad & Øyvind Vågnes, "Bak Kameraet: Intervju med Mieke Bal (andre del)," Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur, 2.1 (2011), 62-67.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Utsnitt av en Elegisk Epistemologi." Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur, 2.1 (2011), 4-19.

Asbjørn Grønstad & Øyvind Vågnes, "Leder." Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur, 2.1 (2011), 1-3.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Shadows on the Screen: The Ekphrastic Impulse in Don DeLillo's Point Omega." Across Media: Contemporary Literature and Media Culture, NTNU, May 5-7.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Entropic Cinema: The Case of Antichrist/Irréversible." Lecture for the Berkeley Film Seminar. University of California-Berkeley, April 21.

Øyvind Vågnes, "The Visual Culture in Europe Questionnaire." With Nina Lager Vestberg, NTNU. Visualizing Europe: The Geopolitical and Intercultural Boundaries of Europe, Barcelona, April 11-12, 2011.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Archives of Violence." Essay accompanying the Piracy Kills Project, by Termodress.

Henrik Gustafsson, "‘Uncanny Landscape': On Claire Denis." Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference Media Citizenship. New Orleans, March 10-13, 2011.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Showing Silence: On David Small's Stitches," in Studies in Comics 1.2.2010, pp. 310-314.

Tonje Sørensen, Review, Hva er et Bilde? Om Visuell Kultur, by Siri Meyer. In Billedkunst, 1.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Dead Time, Empty Spaces: Landscape as Sensibility and Performance." Exploring Textual Action, eds. Lars Sætre, Patrizia Lombardo & Anders M. Gullestad, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2010.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Bortanfor fotografiet." In Morgenbladet, December 17 2010. (Interview with Joe Sacco).

Øyvind Vågnes, "Inside the Story: A Conversation with Joe Sacco." In Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics Vol. 1, No. 2, December 2010, pp. 193-216.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Making Humanity Strange to Itself: On Errol Morris and Werner Herzog." The Human and its Limits, University of Bergen, December 10, 2010.

Asbjørn Grønstad, Presentation of Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur. Visuelt bok-og tidsskriftbad, Studia. Bergen, November 10 2010.

Tonje Sørensen, "Authenticity, mimesis and memoria - visuality and re-enactment in Occupation Dramas." Norsk Medieforskerlags Konfereranse, October 28-29.

Øyvind Vågnes, "The President Dying on the Big Screen: A Brief Cultural History of Abraham Zapruder's Film of the Kennedy Assassination." In Paperweight: A Newspaper of Visual and Material Culture, Volume 1, No. 1, Autumn/Winter 2010.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Death in Dallas." In the 51st Belgrade October Salon Catalog. Belgrade: The Cultural Centre of Belgrade, 2010. (Piece on Zoran Naskovski's installation Death in Dallas.)

Øyvind Vågnes, "Søppelkunst." In lt;em>Bergens Tidende October 21, 201

Henrik Gustafsson, Review of Tomo Savic-Gecan, UNTITLED, 2010, Bergen Kunsthall and Jeu de Paume, October 8 - December 22, 2010, http://www.kunstkritikk.no/kritikk/mellan-rummen/

Henrik Gustafsson, "Jakob Jakobsen: Billed Politikk: Brudstykker af samtidshistorien betragtet som tragedie / Mikkel Bolt, Jakob Jakobsen & Morten Visby: Billed Politikk: At se er at draebe." Review in Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur, 1.2 (2010), 154-156.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Med medieestetikkens briller." In Norsk Medietidsskrift Vol. 17. No. 3. 2010.

Asbjørn Grønstad & Øyvind Vågnes, "Visuell Kultur i Norden," Symposium w/panel discussion, Department of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, September 27, 2010.

Asbjørn Grønstad & Øyvind Vågnes, Presentation of Nomadikon for master students, Visual Culture Workshop, Department of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, September 27, 2010.

Asbjørn Grønstad, Panel discussion on "Creativity and Mediation from Husserl to Whitehead and Back," The FORART Lecture 2010, Institute for Research within International Contemporary Art, Nasjonalmuseet Oslo, September 24-25, 2010.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Pleasing to the Eye: The Zapruder Film's Transformation from Evidentiary to Aesthetic Image." Saving Private Reels: An International Conference on the Presentation, Appropriation and Re-contextualization of the Amateur Moving Image. Cork, September 17-19, 2010.

Asbjørn Grønstad & Øyvind Vågnes, "The 2010 Visual Culture Studies Conference." Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur, 1.2 (2010), 165-166. With Øyvind Vågnes.

Asbjørn Grønstad & Øyvind Vågnes, "'Vi må gi fortiden lov til å eldes:' Intervju med Michael Ann Holly." Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur, 1.2 (2010), 144-151. With Øyvind Vågnes.

Asbjørn Grønstad & Øyvind Vågnes, " Leder," Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur, 1.2 (2010), 81-82. With Øyvind Vågnes.

Henrik Gustafsson, "The Country, the City, & the Scene of the Crime: On Claude Lanzmann." Urban Images: Re-imagining the City through Moving Images, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, September 9-10, 2010.

Øyvind Vågnes, "The Question of Address: On Werner Herzog's Documentaries." Visible Evidence XVII, Bogazici University, Istanbul, August 12, 2010.

Tonje Sørensen, "Remembering a Different Norway - re-enactment and commemoration in the Norwegian war film." Conflict, Memory and Memoralisation, July 17-18.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Toward a Transaesthetic Dispositif: Approaching Disciplinarity Through Deleuze." The Third International Deleuze Studies Conference. Amsterdam, July 12-14.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "On the Unwatchable." NECS 4th Annual Conference. Istanbul, June 24-27.

Asbjørn Grønstad & Øyvind Vågnes, "Visuell Kultur og Hvorfor vi skal være skeptiske: Et Intervju med James Elkins," Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift For Visuell Kultur, 1.1 (2010), 55-63.

Asbjørn Grønstad & Øyvind Vågnes, "Migrasjonstenkeren: Et Intervju med Mieke Bal," Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift For Visuell Kultur, 1.1 (2010), 46-54.

Asbjørn Grønstad & Øyvind Vågnes, "Hva er Visuell Kultur Questionnaire," Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift For Visuell Kultur, 1.1 (2010), 30-43.

Asbjørn Grønstad & Øyvind Vågnes, "Leder," Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift For Visuell Kultur, 1.1 (2010), 1-2.

Henrik Gustafsson, "Screen, Site and Scenery." The Third Nomadikon Meeting: New Screen Ecologies. Bergen, April 12, 2010.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Archives of Violence." The Third Nomadikon Meeting: New Screen Ecologies. Bergen, April 12, 2010.

Tonje Sørensen, "Creating a Visual Representation of he Past." The Third Nomadikon Meeting: New Screen Ecologies, Bergen, April 12.

Tonje Sørensen, "Krigsminneproduksjon." Nasjonalbibliotekets Filmkonferanse, April 8-9.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Jakta på det ekte." In Morgenbladet. April 9, 2010.

Henrik Gustafsson, "New Topographies in Late 20th-Century Nonfiction Film." Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference Archiving the Future/Mobilizing the Past. Los Angeles, March 17-21, 2010.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Explaining Ourselves to the Image: Ethics and Form in Morris, Folman and Haneke." Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference "Archiving the Future/Mobiliing the Past." Los Angeles, March 17-21, 2010.

Øyvind Vågnes, "The Reenactments of S.O.P." Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference "Archiving the Future/Mobiliing the Past." Los Angeles, March 17-21, 2010.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Festskrift for anonymiteten." In Morgenbladet. March 12, 2010.

Henrik Gustafsson, "Confronting Absence: Imagination and Excavation", Imaging History - Photography after the Fact, Hogeschool Sint-Lukas, Brussels, February 18.

Henrik Gustafsson, "Direkte og stumt - kravløst og krevende", Review of Christopher Williams, For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 10), Bergen Kunsthall, January 15 - February 21, 2010, http://www.kunstkritikk.no/kritikk/direkte-og-stumt-kravlost-og-krevende/   

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Om forholdet mellom estetisk teori og estetisk praksis." Conflicts and Negotiations: Gender and Value in Art and Aesthetics, workshop. Oslo, January 28-29. 

Asbjørn Grønstad & Øyvind Vågnes, Coverscaping: Discovering Album Aesthetics, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2010.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Ironi inntar Hollywood," Intervju i Verdens Gang, 20. januar 2010.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Sosiopatiens Anatomi - Michael Hanekes Das Weisse Band. I På Høyden. December 21, 2009.

Asbjørn Grønstad & Øyvind Vågnes, "Litt om med(ie)vitskap." In Norsk Medietidsskrift. Vol. 16. No. 4. 2009.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Amerikabilder". Prosalong. Talk, and a conversation with Sigrid Lien. December 1. 2009.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Eit monumentalt dokument." In Morgenbladet. November 27. 2009.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Bildets makt og avmakt: Ein kort introduksjon til W.J.T. Mitchell." In tilt: Mediepedagogisk tidsskrift, 2/2009.

Henrik Gustafsson, "Meningsfulla mellanrum." Review of Interaktioner. Om Kunstartenes Produktive Mellemværender, eds. Peter Stein Larsen, Peder Kaj Pedersen, Ernst-Ullrich Pinkert and Bent Sørensen. In Edda: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Litteraturforskning, 4/2009.

Asbjørn Grønstad, Review of P. Adams Sitney, Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson. In American Studies in Scandinavia. Vol. 41. No. 1 (Fall 2009).

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Film Heile Dagen Lang." Kronikk i På Høyden. October 20.

Øyvind Vågnes, "The Unmaking of the World: Joe Sacco's Palestine #4 and 'Trauma on Loan.'" Paper, The International Comic Arts Forum conference, School of the Arts Institute in Chicago, October 15.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Nærare bildet." In Morgenbladet October 9.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Transmedial Epistemes and the Question of Disciplinarity." Guest lecture, Media Culture and Aesthetics seminar, Norwegian University of Technology and Science, September 25.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Nerdane tek hevn!" In Morgenbladet September 25.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Nighthawks at the Diner: Wong Kar-Wai's My Blueberry Nights." In American, British and Canadian Studies. Vol. 12.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "The Decay of Fiction and the Poetics of Pastness." In Moving Pictures/Stopping Places: Hotels and Motels on Film, eds. David B. Clarke, Valerie Crawford Pfannhauser & Marcus A. Doel, Plymouth: Lexington Books.

Henrik Gustafsson, “Past tense/present place”, Locating Media: Paradoxes of place in contemporary cinema, NECS Conference. Lund, June 25-28.          

Øyvind Vågnes, "Roundtable Discussion: Images of Pain/Painful Images." Participant. The Second Nomadikon Meeting: Images of Pain/Painful Images. Bergen, June 19-21.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Roundtable Discussion: Images of Pain/Painful Images." Chair. The Second Nomadikon Meeting: Images of Pain/Painful Images. Bergen, June 19-21.

Henrik Gustafsson, “Where does it hurt? Revisiting crime scenes in non-fiction film”, The Second Nomadikon Meeting: Images of Pain/Painful Images. Bergen, June 19-21.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Becoming an Image of Pain: Self-Immolations." The Second Nomadikon Meeting: Images of Pain/Painful Images. Bergen, June 19-21.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "The Unwatchable, or, the Fork in the Eye." The Second Nomadikon Meeting: Images of Pain/Painful Images. Bergen, June 19-21.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "The Ethical Life of Images." Guest Lecture, Transformations in Screen Culture. The Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Stockholm. Stockholm, March 19.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "The Death of Cinema and the Rise of Visual Culture Studies." Guest lecture, Transformations in Screen Culture. The Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Stockholm. Stockholm, March 18.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Publisering og språk, revisited." In Norsk Medietidsskrift. Vol. 16. No. 2

Øyvind Vågnes, "-Vi retta vår avsky mot bilda frå Abu Ghraib." In
Morgenbladet. February 20, 2009. 

Øyvind Vågnes, "Før og etter smellet." In Morgenbladet. January 2, 2009.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Sløkk lyset!" In Morgenbladet. December 19, 2008. 

Asbjørn Grønstad, "'No one goes to the Movies anymore:' Cinema and Visual Studies in the Digital Era." In Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media. No. 30. Fall 2008.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Tact and Tactility: On Jane Campion's In the Cut." In American, British and Canadian Studies. 10.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Bilder av nød og lidelse." Debate. The National Library, Oslo. November 13, 2008.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Ekphrastic Migrations: Showing Seeing in Siri Hustvedt’s What I Loved."
The 4th Text-Action-Space (TAS) Workshop. Paris, November 3-5, 2008.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Nighthawks at the Diner: Wong Kar Wai’s My Blueberry Nights."
American Studies Association of Norway conference. Bergen, October 31 – November 2, 2008.

Øyvind Vågnes, "Tilbake til Abu Ghraib." In Morgenbladet. October 10, 2008.

Asbjørn Grønstad, "Portrett av eit Augeblikk." In Klassekampen. October 4, 2008.

Asbjørn Grønstad, Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008.