Liv Hauskenis Associate Professor at Department of Media and Communica-
tion, University of Oslo, and the leader of the research project“Media Aes-
thetics–Materiality, Practice, Experience”of which the seminar on Visual Cul-
ture: Images Between the Still and the Moving is part. Her doctoral dissertation,
Of the untimely. Media-analytic investigations of photography, narrative and slide-mo-
tion film(in Norwegian), focuses on the experience of temporality influ-
enced by and connected to modern media and different forms of expression.
Through critical readings and discussions of the figures of death in a phenom-
enological theory of photography (Barthes) and in a psychoanalytical the-
ory of narrative (Brooks,), the temporalities of photography and narrative
are put into play with the strange temporality of what she calls the slide-motion
film, a concept developed in this dissertation. She is the co-editor, with Peter
Larsen, ofMedievitenskap, a four-volume textbook in Media Studies (), and
has published numerous articles on narrative theory, film, television, photogra-
phy, and medical imaging, most recently“The Aesthetics of X-ray Imaging”in
Melberg, Arne (ed.)Aesthetics at Work(), and "Billedbehandling og trover-
dighet" (Photographic modification and credibility), in Skogerbø, Eli og Enli,
Gunn (eds.)Digitale Dilemma().
Tom Gunningis Professor at the Department of Art History, Committee on
Cinema & Media Studies, University of Chicago. His published work (approxi-
mately one hundred publications) has concentrated on early cinema (from its
origins to the WW I) as well as on the culture of modernity from which cinema
arose (relating it to still photography, stage melodrama, magic lantern shows, as
well as wider cultural concerns such as the tracking of criminals, the World Ex-
positions, and Spiritualism). His concept of the“cinema of attractions”has tried
to relate the development of cinema to other forces than storytelling, such as
new experiences of space and time in modernity, and an emerging modern vi-
sual culture. His field specialities are international early and silent cinema;
American avant-garde cinema; Hollywood film genres; film and narrative theo-
ry; classical film theory; film and still photography; Japanese cinema; early cin-
ema and the experience of modernity; directors’styles (especially, Lang, Griffith,
Von Strernberg, Hitchcock, Godard, Bresson, Borzage); film historiography;
film exhibition and spectatorship; modernist cinema of the twenties (Soviet,
French, and German). Among his publications we findD.W. Griffith and the Ori-
gins of American Narrative Film: The Early Years at Biograph. University of Illinois
Press,;“From Kaleidoscope to the X-Ray: Urban Spectatorship, Poe, Benja-
min and Traffic is Souls ()”inWide Angle, Vol., no., pp.-;“Tracing
the Individual Body AKA Photography, Detectives, Early Cinema and the Body
of Modernity” in Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life ed. Vanessa R.
Schwartz and Leo Charney (University of California Press,);“The Horror
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