Torben Grodal

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Torben Grodal is an author and professor of film studies at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

[edit] Career

Torben Grodal is a professor in the department of Film and Media Studies at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

Grodal has written numerous academic essays about film analysis including his breakthrough work, Moving Pictures - A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings, and Cognition published by the Oxford University Press in 1997. In Moving Pictures Grodal provides a theoretical account of the role of emotions and cognition in producing the aesthetics effects of film and television genres. [1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Browne, Andrew (December 2004). "Cognitivism: Use it or Lose it; On Film Style and Story: A Tribute to Torben Grodal". Film-Philosophy (London) 8 (43). ISSN 1466-4615. http://www.film-philosophy.com/vol8-2004/n43browne. Retrieved 13 January 2010. 


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