Bio

Much of Mark Sandberg's research and teaching engages with late nineteenth-century visual culture and silent film as a medium. He has specific film specialties in Scandinavian cinema history, in certain Scandinavian directors (Sjostrom, Stiller, Dreyer, Bergman, von Trier), and in the contributions of Scandinavian visual culture (museology) to the paracinematic visual culture around the birth of cinema. He regularly teaches courses on Film Historiography, on Pre-cinema, Silent Film Comedy, Scandinavian Film, and other topics in early and silent cinema. Current film-related research includes a project on metaphors of housing in the silent films of Carl-Theodore Dreyer.

Selected Publications

"The Architecture of Forgetting." Forthcoming in Ibsen Studies 7.1 (2007). Ibsen Studies 7.1 (2007): 4-21.

"Doll Housing." In Sanda Tomescu, ed., Henrik Ibsen, special issue of Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Philologia (Cluj, Romania; November 2006), 53-60.

"John Gabriel Borkman's Avant-Garde Continuity." Modern Drama 49.3 (September 2006).

"Mastering the House: Performative Inhabitation in Carl Th. Dreyer's The Parson's Widow." In C. Claire Thompson, ed. Northern Constellations: New Readings in Nordic Cinema. Norwich: Norvik Press, 2006.

"Multiple-Reel Feature Films: Europe." In Richard Abel, ed., Encyclopedia of Early Cinema. New York: Routledge, 2005. 452-456.

"Wax Museums: Europe." In Richard Abel, ed., Encyclopedia of Early Cinema. New York: Routledge, 2005. 686-87.

"The Metropolitan Threshold: Material Mobility and the Folk-Primitive." Kristin Kopp and Klaus Müller-Richter, eds. Die "Großstadt" und das "Primitive": Text-Politik-Repräsentation. Stuttgart: Verlag J.B. Metzler, 2004. 93-112.

Living Pictures, Missing Persons: Mannequins, Museums and Modernity (Princeton University Press, 2003).

"Pocket Movies: Souvenir Cinema Programs and the Danish Silent Cinema," Film History 13.1 (Fall 2001).

"Ibsen and the Mimetic Home of Modernity," Ibsen Studies 2 (Spring 2001).

"Maternal Gesture and Photography in Victor Sjostrom's Ingeborg Holm." Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams and Terje I. Leiren, eds. Stage and Screen: Studies in Scandinavian Drama and Film. Essays in Honor of Birgitta Steene (Seattle: Dream Play Press Northwest, 2000).

"Writing on the Wall: The Language of Advertising in Knut Hamsun's Sult." Scandinavian Studies 71.3 (Fall 1999), 265-296.

"Tracking Out: The Bergman Film in Retrospect." Review Essay. Scandinavian Studies 69.3 (Summer 1997), 357-376.

"Effigy and Narrative: Looking into the Nineteenth-Century Folk Museum." In Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life, Eds. Leo Charney and Vanessa Schwartz (University of California Press, 1995), 320-361.

"Rewriting God's Plot: Ingmar Bergman and Feminine Narrative." Scandinavian Studies 63.1 (1991), 1-29.