Johannes Riis

Johannes Riis

Associate Professor

My main interest is film theoretical and I have long been focused on film acting and the power of performances for affecting our experience of moving image narratives. I'm the author of Spillets kunst (2003) on emotions and nonverbal meaning, and I have contributed to encyclopedias, anthologies, and journals on this and other issues. Currently I'm working on a book-length study of film acting styles between 1920 and 1980, adressing American, European and Asian actor-director collaborations. I'm particularly interested in cognitive film theory and have attended the SCSMI conferences for years. A secondary interest is that of media industries, in particular issues of distribution and ownership, and I have a particular liking for short film narratives.

I have been teaching course on film theory and analysis, as well as institutions and organizations, inclduing a course concurrent with students' internships. Since 2005 I have been a member of the board at Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, since 2017 on the board for Carl Th. Dreyers Mindefond.

 

Selected publications

  1. Published

    Communicative Functions of Performer Expressiveness and Their Artistic and Aesthetic Aspects: Analysis of a Scene from Smiles of a Summer Night

    Riis, Johannes, 10 Oct 2017, In: Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind. 11, 2, p. 49-66 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  2. Published

    Acting

    Riis, Johannes, 2009, The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film. Livingston, P. & Plantinga, C. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 3-11 8 p. (Routledge Philosophy Companions).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  3. Published

    Can involuntary contributions be authored? A note on the Actor's art

    Riis, Johannes, 2005, Visual Authorship: Creativity and intentionality in the Media. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum, p. 87-101 15 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  4. Published

    Naturalist and classical styles in early sound film acting

    Riis, Johannes, 2004, In: Cinema Journal. 3, p. 3-17 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Spillets kunst - følelser i film

    Riis, Johannes, 2003, København: Museum Tusculanum. 264 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

  6. Published

    Bogey's Imaginative Contribution

    Riis, Johannes, 2002, In: P.o.v.. 14, p. 199-235 37 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

  7. Published

    Is a Realist Style Aimed at Providing an Illusion?

    Riis, Johannes, 2002, Realism and Reality in Film and Media. København: Museum Tusculanum, p. 93-115 23 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  8. Published

    L'expérience émotionelle et le style: Le troisième sens, l'excès et le sublime vus à la lumière

    Riis, Johannes, 2002, In: Cinémas. 12, 2, p. 117-134 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Tæt på og langt fra: Den romerske storfilms genfødsel

    Riis, Johannes, 2000, In: Kosmorama. 226, p. 116-133 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

  10. Published

    Towards a Poetics of the Short Film

    Riis, Johannes, 1998, In: P.o.v.. 5, p. 133-150 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

  11. Published

    Actor/Character Dualism: The Case of Luis Buñuel's Paradoxical Characters

    Riis, Johannes, Aug 2012, Acting and Performance in Moving Image Culture: Bodies, Screens, and Renderings. Sternagel, J., Levitt, D. & Mersch, D. (eds.). Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, p. 131-43 13 p. (Metabasis, Vol. 7).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

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