Research groups
Research
Asbjørn Grønstad is professor of Visual Culture and has worked extensively on the relation between transgressive forms of visuality and ethics. He holds a PhD in American Studies (2003), and became a full professor of Visual Culture at the University of Stavanger in 2007. Between 2008 and 2013 he was Principal Investigator of Nomadikon: New Ecologies of the Image, a research project sponsored by the Trond Mohn Foundation (formerly the Bergen Research Foundation). In 2010 he launched the peer-reviewed journal Ekphrasis: Nordic Journal of Visual Culture with Øyvind Vågnes. Grønstad is the recipient of two Fulbright grants (1998-99 & 2017-18) and has been a visiting professor to the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2000, 2001 & 2003), the University of Amsterdam (2005, 2013), and the University of California-Berkeley (2006-07, 2011, 2013 & 2017-18). He has published 12 books and over 60 scholarly articles. His most recent monographs are Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity (Palgrave, 2020) and Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State. In 2022, he co-edited, with Lene Johannessen, Microdystopias: Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment (Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield).
Most recent publications:
Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State
Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity
Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture
Film and the Ethical Imagination
Outreach
Grønstad has contributed a range of media texts, interviews and guest lectures for the media and the public.
Latest:
Less than zero: McGurls tidsriktige reduksjonisme
Ways of Seeing og det hvite blikket
Ways of Seeing TV, episode 6 (31. oktober 2020).
Johnny Cash International - digitalt arangement (Fulbright Norway, 27. oktober 2020).
"Har vi forstått hva "Ways of Seeing" egentlig handler om?" (Aftenposten, 25. september 2020).
"Hva er problemet?" (Klassekampen, 1. september 2020).
Teaching
Grønstad teaches courses and supervises projects in cinema and television studies, visual and popular culture, and American Studies. He is often involved in courses such as MEVI103: Media Aesthetics - Interpretation and Analysis, MEVI223: Media Aesthetics - History and Theory, and MEVI303: Media Aesthetics.
Publications
Lecture
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2026). Innledning til filmvisning. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Mariken Lauvstad; Gitte Sætre (2025). Kunst og Frihet - en kunstpolitisk samtale. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2020). Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2005). Tid og Erindring i Theo Angelopoulos' Evigheten og En Dag. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2024). Chair of guest lecture "A24 and the New Indie Auteur" by Kim Wilkins and Bruce Isaacs. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). "Filmkunsten i nåtid og fremtid". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2014). Faces and the Phenomenology of the Face - Co-organizer. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2021). Opposisjon til Endre Eidsaa Larsens disputas "Filmens Figurer: En figural tilnærming til film og filmanalyse". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2014). "Om Intermedialitet, Ekfrase og det Transestetiske". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2024). Debatt! Ut og stjæle tekster: Kva er eigentleg god kjeldebruk?. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2002). Voyeurist Culture: Critical Perspectives on The Truman Show. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). Organizer and chair for the conference "Utopia and Dystopia in Historical, Political and Aesthetic Perspective". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). Participant in panel debate - book launch for Jeg Skulle Si Storm: Boka om Ways of Seeing. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2018). Cinematic Realism and the Aesthetics of Duration. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). Introduction: Book launch of Jeg Skulle Si Storm - Boka om Ways of Seeing. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2014). Wrap-Up: The Bergen Sessions. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2025). Innledning til visning av Strange Days. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2014). Begrunnelse for juryens valg av vinner til det internasjonale dokumentarfilmprogrammet under Bergen Internasjonale Filmfestival 2014. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2020). "Songs of Faith and Devotion: Low's Double Negative and the Poetics of Opacity". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2010). Presentasjon av tidsskriftet Ekfrase. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2014). Holy Motors - noen innganger. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2015). Advice on career development. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2013). "Om veiledning". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). Main organizer for "The Microutopia Workshop". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2007). Chinatown i kontekst. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2017). The Aesthetic Imaginary and the Case of Ernie Gehr. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2025). Innledning til filmen "Mustang.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2009). "Nomadikon: Status, aktiviteter og planer". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2021). Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State - gjesteforelesning på emnet "Visuell Kultur - Posisjoner". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2015). Foredrag om filmen Christopher Strong. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2019). First opponent for Katrin Kangur's PhD dissertation “Poetics of adaptation and point of view: literary and documentary sources of the historical-biographical film.”. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2013). Respondent på Ina Bloms foredrag "The Autobiography of Video". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). "Ways of Seeing". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2018). "François Ozon - En Innledning". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2025). Lecture on the film Desert Hearts. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2005). Forbudte Bilder. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2009). Video interview for "Transformations in Screen Culture.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2020). "Har vi forstått Ways of Seeing?". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2016). "Filmvoldens tropologi og etikk". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2023). Soundscapes of the South Symposium - organizer. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2025). "Kunst, kultur, ytringsfrihet og (selv)sensur". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2014). "Sediments: Experience, Story, Image" co-organizer (with Lene Johannessen). (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2024). Chair for symposiet "Precarity, Polarization, Populism". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2018). "Internal Realism". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2023). Presentation of book project: Introuduction to Visual Culture. (external link)
Conference lecture
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2025). Forest Imaginaries. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2025). Aftersun and the Poetics of Mourning. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2019). Chair, keynote by Lisa Parks: "Tactical Drone Use and Vertical Mediation at Standing Rock". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2007). "The Decay of Fiction and the Poetics of Pastness". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2000). "Abject Topographies: Images of Male Desolation in Fat City and Junior Bonner". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2020). Thoughts on running a peer-reviewed journal. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2020). A Conversation with Fresh Eye about Visual Culture in Europe. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2010). "Words of Welcome". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2009). "Words of Welcome". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2009). "The Unwatchable, or, the Fork in the Eye". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2023). Sustainable Utopias. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2024). "The Band's 'The Weight' - Then and Now.. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2009). "The Ethical Life of Images". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2010). "Explaining Ourselves to the Image: Ethics and Form in Morris, Folman and Haneke.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2023). "Toward an Ethics of Inconvenience: Murray Bookchin's Eco-Philosophy". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2010). Medarrangør av "Between the Aesthetical and the Political". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2021). On Confinement, Sameness and Grieving: Yorgos Lanthimos's Microdystopias. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2001). The Lying Game?: Historical Fiction and the Re-Invention of the "Past". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2011). "'Clear-eyed visions of the Particular:' Transaesthetic Resonances in Mark Doty's Still Life with Oysters and Lemon and Don DeLillo's Point Omega.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). On the Concept of Opacity. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2021). The River in Reverse. (external link)
- Sigrid Lien; Øyvind Vågnes; Asbjørn Grønstad (2009). Amerikabilder. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2024). Art, Academia and Free Speech in an Age of Neoliberalism. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2004). Anatomy of a Murder: Bazin, Barthes, Blow-Up. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2004). Narrative's Scar: Violence and Subjectivity in David Fincher's Fight Club. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2019). Main organizer for the conference Monuments: The 26th Biennial Nordic Association for American Studies Conference.. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2025). Organizer of Workshop I: Center for Critical Literacy (CCL). (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2025). Mapping Visual Studies for the Future: On Writing a Textbook. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2018). "On Visuality and Ethics". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2019). Keynote Address: "Sound and Image Between Narrative and Opacity". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2014). "'Every Form is a Face looking at us:' The Ethical Encounter in Kiarostami's Shirin". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2016). Toward an Aesthetics of Opacity. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2012). Moderator for TBLRs forskerskoleseminar "On Jacques Rancière.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2000). Peckinpahs Walden: The Violent Indictment of Civilization in The Wild Bunch. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2014). "Here is a Picture of no Country: The Image Between Fiction and Politics in Eric Baudelaire's Lost Letters to Max". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2018). A Bibliography of Machine Vision. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2011). "Words of Welcome". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2010). Deltagelse uten paper. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2023). "Of Time and the River: Heather McEntire's Eno Axis". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2016). Cinema's Gestural Connectivities. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2007). "The Place of Cinema in the Era of Visual Studies". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2023). Plenary Lecture: "On the Persistence of Murray Bookchin’s Eco-Philosophy". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2012). "Taxonomies of Violence.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2012). "Enfolded By Cinema: The Transvisual Gaze in Tsai Ming-liang's Visage". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2015). "The Ethics of Transgression". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2018). Cosmopolitanism and the Right to Opacity. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2015). Archival Migrations: The Organic Image in John Akomfrah's The Nine Muses. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2017). "Remediation, Ethics and the Transaesthetic". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2005). Wonders of the Invisible World: The Music of the Handsome Family. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2001). Andre Bazin and the Substance of Filmicity. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2004). "Vår Tids Redsel For Alvor:" Nokre Refleksjonar Rundt Roy Anderssons Sanger Fra Andre Etasje. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2013). "Temporality, Presence, and Slow Cinema". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). Komitémedlem og opponent på Jon Inge Faldalen doktoravhandling "Stillmoving.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2013). "Images Opaque and Precarious: On Ernie Gehr and the Boundaries of Discernibility". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2014). "Towards an Ethics of Distortion: Post-human Visuality in Leviathan". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2019). Chair for the panel "Monuments in Popular Culture.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2011). Words of Welcome. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2006). Abject Desire:Anatomie de l’enfer and the Unwatchable. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2015). Organizer & chair for the symposium "Contested Spaces". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2024). Aesthetics, Free Speech and the Neoliberal Imaginary. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2019). Chair for panelet "Mediating Opacity in Visual Culture". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2019). Main organizer and chair of the seminar "The Ethics of Surveillance". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2021). "White Material: Michael Haneke's Ethics of Violence". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2017). Figuring Opacity. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2008). "Ekphrastic Migrations: Showing Seeing in Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2008). "Nighthawks at the Diner: Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (1999). Violence as Form and Rhetoric: On Reading The Wild Bunch as a Narrative of Regeneration. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2009). "Words of Welcome". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2010). Panel discussion on "Creativity and Mediation from Husserl to Whitehead and Back.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2023). Micro-utopias II - co-organizer. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2021). "Refleksjoner rundt 03.08.38". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2016). Ernie Gehr and the Aesthetic Imaginary. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2010). "Toward a Transaesthetic Dispositif: Approaching Disciplinarity Through Deleuze". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2008). "Cinema and its Place in the Digital Era: The New Architecture of Image Studies". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2003). Coppola's Exhausted Eschatology: Apocalypse Now Reconsidered. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2023). Convener and chair for guest lecture by Elly McCausland: "'Have They Come to Take Me Away?' Madness, Midnights, and the Feminist Antiheroism of Taylor Swift.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2015). "'The Honey of the Invisible:' Experimental Documentary and the Ethics of Memory". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2002). The Gaze of Tiresias: Joyce, Rossellini and the Iconology of the Dead. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2008). "Performing Landscape in Recent Art Cinema.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2018). Memory, Art, and Ethics in the Work of John Akomfrah. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2024). Micro-utopian Ethics. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2010). "Archives of Violence". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2002). Bazin and the Question of Filmicity in the Digital Age. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2002). Love Among the Ruins: Memory and Iconology in Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2024). "Neoliberalism and the Vulnerabilization of Speech". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2011). "Writing Seeing 1: Transaesthetic Resonances". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2013). "Thinking Disciplinarity in an Age of Transmediality". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2003). Isaac Julien's Looking For Langston and the Limits of the Visible World. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2018). 'Everything was Stories:' The Aesthetic Imaginaries of Searching For the Wrong-Eyed Jesus.. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2009). "Pluralizing Visual Culture: Roundtable Discussion.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2010). "Visuell Kultur i Norden.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). Labor, Self, and Memory in Dan Erickson's Severance. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2013). "Precarities Material and Conceptual". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2014). "The Organic Image in Nostalgia For the Light and The Nine Muses". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2009). "The Death of Cinema and the Rise of Visual Culture Studies". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2014). "Refigurations of Walden: Notes on Contagious Mediation". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2000). The Appropriational Fallacy: Grand Theories and the Neglect of Film Form. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2005). Last Year at the Ambassador: Pastness in The Decay of Fiction. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2002). The Rhetoric of the Historical Fiction Film. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2008). Moderator, kommentator, medarrangør av "Det Estetiske i Litteratur-, kunst- og kulturforskningen". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). Rhythm in Moving Image Media. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2005). Looking In: William Carlos Williams and the Image-Text. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2015). Leviathan and the Ecological Screen. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2001). Film Beyond Photography: The Politics of Artificiality. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). Legal Aesthetics: The Case of Ways of Seeing. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2024). "Critical Aesthetics". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2025). Sleater-Kinney's Dig Me Out and the Poetics of the Studio. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2009). Arrangør av The First Nomadikon Meeting: Pluralizing Visual Culture. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2017). Angelopoulos, Akomfrah and "The Elsewhere of the Image.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2011). "Entropic Cinema: The Case of Antichrist/Irréversible.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2025). Organizer of Workshop II: Center for Critical Literacy (CCL). (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2012). "Notes on the Power of the Precarious Aesthetic". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2010). "Om forholdet mellom estetisk teori og estetisk praksis.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2019). Mediation, Ethics, and Opacity. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2013). "Broken Materialities, or Three Forms of Opacity". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2012). Deltager og kommentator. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2015). John Akomfrah's The Nine Muses and the Ethics of Memory. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2013). "The Two Disciplines, Cinema Studies and Art History," Round table: Moving Images or Moving Theory? The Role of Film Studies in Creating Social Agenda for Visual Culture. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2008). "Theorizing Disciplinarity: The Case of Cinema Studies and its Vanishing Objects". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2010). "On the Unwatchable". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2019). "Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2015). "The Aesthetic Imaginary: Eric Baudelaire's Lost Letters to Max". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2003). Rossellini and the Transtextual. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2019). Respondent to "Political Role of New Media in Relation to American Literature and Culture" and to "The Importance of Global Digital Literacy". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2024). "On Politics and Figuration". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). Elemental Engagements: Art and/as Epistemic Media - Chair and Respondent. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2011). "A Cinema of Gestures: Claire Denis's 35 Shots of Rum". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2017). Film og den Etiske Imaginasjon. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2009). "Roundtable Discussion: Images of Pain/Painful Images". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2010). Presentasjon av Nomadikon for studenter på Visuell Kultur-Verksted, Københavns Universitet. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2013). The Nomadikon Lecture Series 8-11. Organizer and respondent. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2016). "The Virtues of Opacity in a World Without Shadows". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2012). Arrangør av The 6th Nomadikon Meeting: Ecologies of Seeing or Seeing Whole: Images and Spaces, Images within Images. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2018). Ruben Östlund and the Cinema of Vulnerability. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2001). Re-Viewing Bonnie and Clyde: Context, Reception, and Aesthetic Framework. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2016). "Remediation, Ethics, and the Transaesthetic". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2023). Chair of the panel "Animation and the Limits of Care". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2009). Kommentator, moderator, medarrangør av "Concepts, Meaning, Interpretation, Intention (med Toril Moi)". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2004). Denis Johnson's Postmodern Lazarus: Transforming Faith in Resuscitation of a Hanged Man. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2001). Re-Viewing Bonnie and Clyde: Context, Reception and Aesthetic Framework. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). Confederalist Micro-utopias: From Murray Bookchin to Rojava. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2012). First opponent for Lise Majgaard Mortensens Ph.D thesis "Towards a Revival of Representation: Ekphrasis in the Contemporary Novel at the End of Postmodernism". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2010). Arrangør av konferansen The Third Nomadikon Meeting: New Screen Ecologies. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2009). Arrangør av konferansen The Second Nomadikon Meeting: Images of Pain/Painful Images. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2011). "Writing Seeing (1): Transaesthetic Resonances in Still Life with Oysters and Lemon and Point Omega.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2009). "Transmedial Epistemes and the Question of Disciplinarity". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2017). "A New Ethics For Biovisual Screens". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2025). Examiner for Anette Svane's doctoral thesis entitled "Ambiguous Human Existence and the Ethics of Authenticity: Exploring Tensions of Freedom and Solidarity in Contemporary Scandinavian Art Film and Beyond". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2019). Moderator for keynote by Lisa Parks, on "Tactical Drone Use and Vertical Mediation at Standing Rock". (external link)
Other presentation
Academic book chapter
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2020). Conditional Vulnerability in the Films of Ruben Östlund. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2019). The Two Unwatchables. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2020). Museum Movies, Documentary Space, and the Transmedial. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2016). Impaired Images and the Boundaries of Discernibility". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2003). As I Lay Dying: Violence and Subjectivity in Reservoir Dogs. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2001). Peckinpah's Walden: The Violent Indictment of 'Civilization' in The Wild Bunch. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2003). The Lying Game? Historical Films and the Re-Invention of the "Past". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2016). Transaesthetic Temporalities: Ekphrasis and the Poetics of Deceleration. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Henrik Gustafsson (2014). Giorgio Agamben and the Shape of Cinema to Come. (external link)
- Lene Marite Johannessen; Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). Microdystopias. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Henrik Gustafsson; Øyvind Vågnes (2017). Gestures of Seeing. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2018). The Aesthetic Imaginary and the Case of Ernie Gehr. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2017). John Akomfrah's The Nine Muses and the Ethics of Memory. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2013). Enfolded by Cinema: The Transvisual Gaze in Tsai Ming-liang's Visage.. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). Nomadland, Neoliberalism and the Microdystopic. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2010). Dead Time, Empty Spaces: Landscape as Sensibility and Performance. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2021). ‘Everything Was Stories’: The Aesthetic Imaginaries of Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2012). "Writing Seeing: Transaesthetic Resonances in Still Life with Oysters and Lemon and Point Omega". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). On Confinement, Sameness, and Grieving: Yorgos Lanthimos's Alps. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2019). Invisibility and the Ethics of Erasure: Khaled Barakeh's The Untitled Images. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2015). Here is a Picture of No Country: The Image Between Fiction and Politics in Eric Baudelaire's Lost Letters to Max. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2016). Slow Cinema and the Ethics of Duration. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2006). Narrative's Scar: Violence and Subjectivity in Fight Club. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2024). The Ethical Politics of Opacity. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2013). Haneke’s Amour and the Ethics of Dying. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2011). On the Unwatchable. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2023). Rhythm in Moving Image Media. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2016). Refigurations of Walden: Notes on Contagious Mediation. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2001). To Fail Better: Production and Rhetoric in Curtiz' and Richardson's Light Brigades. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Lene Marite Johannessen (2025). Microutopias and Everyday Hope. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2025). Microutopian Ethics. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2009). The Decay of Fiction and the Poetics of Pastness. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2021). Images and Ethics. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2015). "'Nothing Ever Ends:' Angelopoulos and the Image of Duration". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2017). Remediation, Ethics and the Transaesthetic. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2010). Introduction. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2019). Invisibility Matters. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2007). Isaac Julien's looking for Langston and the limits of the visible world. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2024). Art and Justice in the Age of Neoliberalism. (external link)
Academic article
- Asbjørn Grønstad (1999). Tid, Bevegelse og Narrasjon i Film. Bordwells Neoformalisme i Lys av Deleuzes Cinesofi. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2011). "Is There a Transmedial Dispositif? Aesthetic Epistemes and the Question of Disciplinarity.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2005). Om Minnet, Historia, Gløymsla: Godards Eloge de l'amour. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2008). "Tact and Tactility: On Jane Campion's In the Cut.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2007). "Disiplin og Purisme: Eit essay om transmedial kultur". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2025). Filmomtale: "Mildred Pierce". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2002). The Gaze of Tiresias: Joyce, Rossellini and the Iconology of the Dead. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). Screening absence. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2009). Publisering og språk, revisited. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2004). Anatomy of a Murder: Bazin, Barthes, Blow-Up. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). Historier om blikk. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2003). One-Dimensional Men: Fight Club and the Poetics of the Body. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2002). The Appropriational Fallacy: Grand Theories and the Neglect of Film Form. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2004). Straw Dogs and the Aesthetics of Violence (1). (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2009). "Nighthawks at the Diner: Wong Kar-Wai's My Blueberry Nights". (external link)
- Henrik Gustafsson; Øyvind Vågnes; Asbjørn Grønstad (2016). Gestures of Seeing. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2003). Mean Streets: Death and Disfiguration in Hawks's Scarface. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2005). "Straw Dogs and the Aesthetics of Violence (II)". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2008). 'No One Goes to the Movies Anymore:' Cinema and Visual Studies in the Digital Era. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2006). Abject Desire: Anatomie de l'enfer and the unwatchable. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2005). Looking In: William Carlos Williams and the Image-Text. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2001). Straitjacketing the Image: Illocutionary Writing and the Obstruction of Cine-Semiosis in Hawks' Scarface. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2003). Gathering at the River: Ford, Peckinpah and the Failure of the Communal. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (1999). "Tid, bevegelse og narrasjon. Bordwells neoformalisme i lys av Deleuzes cinesofi". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2005). Tiresijin pogled: Joyce, Rossellini iikonologija mrtvih. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2008). "Teljekantar og Teljefantar: Om Forsking, Formidling og den Tospråklege Fordringa". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2024). The River in Reverse: Flood Imaginaries, Old and New. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2013). "Abbas Kiarostami's Shirin and the Aesthetics of Ethical Intimacy". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2001). Topographies of Defeat: Masculinity and Desolation in Fat City and Junior Bonner. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2001). Violence as Form and Rhetoric: Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2008). "Downcast Eyes: Michael Haneke and the Cinema of Intrusion". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2005). Coppola's Exhausted Eschatology: Apocalypse Now Reconsidered. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2025). Sleater-Kinney's Electric Feminism. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2002). Back to Bazin?: Filmicity in the Age of the Digital Image. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2008). Downcast eyes: Michael Haneke and the cinema of intrusion. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2006). Denis Johnson's postmodern Lazarus: Transforming faith in 'Resuscitation of a Hanged Man'. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2007). Disiplin og Purisme: Eit Essay om Transmedial Kultur. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2006). An Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2012). Ekphrasis refigured: writing seeing in Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2002). Fortolkningens Hegemoni: Om Filmkritikkens Usynliggjøring av Estetikken. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2012). Is there a transmedial dispositif? : aesthetic epistemes and the question of disciplinarity. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2005). Wonders of the Invisible World: The Handsome Family and the Topographical Uncanny. (external link)
Doctoral thesis (PhD)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2021). Nature as violent and violated : Five essays on the visual culture of the Anthropocene. (external link)
- Pauline Ann Hoath; Asbjørn Grønstad; Sigrid Lien (2019). A Photographic View from Below. A Soldier's Story from the Mandates of Iraq and Palestine 1922-1926.. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2003). Transfigurations: Violence, Death, and Masculinity in American Cinema. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2019). A Photograph View From Below: A Soldier's Story From the Mandates of Iraq and Palestine 1922-1926.. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Nahum Welang (2023). The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship: Rethinking Triple Consciousness in Contemporary American Culture. (external link)
Radio or TV participation
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2020). Johnny Cash Digital Event. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2004). Intervju om amerikansk filmvold. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2021). Ytringsfrihet og akademisk frihet: Debatt om rasisme og sexisme. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2021). The Microdystopia Workshop - Co-organizer. (external link)
Journal review
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2009). Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2013). Zero Dark Thirty og den nye revisjonismen. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2005). Filmmaktens Fysiognomi? Anmeldelse av Christian Refsum & Eivind Røssaak, Kyssing og Slåssing: Fire Kapitler om Film. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). "Less than zero: McGurls tidsriktige reduksjonisme". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2021). The Velvet Underground - 'things always seem to end before they start'. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2026). Book review, What Film is Good For: On the Values of Spectatorship, eds. Julian Hanich & Martin P. Rossouw. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2012). "Now! Visual Culture: The International Association of Visual Culture Studies, New York City, 31. mai - 2. juni 2012". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2008). "Filosofen for en komparativ estetikk". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2014). Anmeldelse av D.N. Rodowick: Elegy For Theory. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). Bokanmeldelse: Reframing Toddy Haynes. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2010). The 2010 Visual Culture Studies Conference. (external link)
Media interview
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2020). "Når psykopaten blir søt.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2020). Unpleasant Movies Conversations Podcast: Asbjørn Grønstad, Screening the Unwatchable. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). Intervju om kunstnerisk ytringsfrihet i teksten "Jeg er redd hele tida". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2015). "Dette bør du se på BIFF". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2015). Moderne Tider. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2021). The Only Lasting Truth is Change. Interview with Hanan Benammar about "Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2021). "Trakassering av kunstnere er en vei til makt". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2010). "Visuell Kultur, og Hvorfor vi skal være skeptiske: Et Intervju med James Elkins.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2012). "Noe er topp, andre får stryk". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2018). "Dette er ikke en kommersiell film" av Varg Lukas Folkman & Ørjan Nilsson. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2011). "Interview with Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2012). "Objekt og Nettverk: Et Møte med David Joselit". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2008). "Døden på lerretet". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2015). "Hva er sant og løgn i 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato?" Kulturhuset, NRK P2. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2014). "Dette bør du se på BIFF". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2010). "Questionnaire: Hva er Visuell Kultur?". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2024). Sett med Kvitt Blikk:" Intervju med Nicholas Mirzoeff. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2010). "Vi må gi fortiden lov til å eldes:" Intervju med Michael Ann Holly". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2015). "Håpet er at det skal vokse frem noe nytt". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2012). "Mørkredd". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2012). "Sirkus Uten Stor Betydning.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2010). "Ironi inntar Hollywood". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2024). «Hollywood vil at folk skal stemme på Harris: 'De er ikke viljeløse sauer.'». (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2024). "Denne filmen kan påvirke valget, mener ekspert. Donald Trump kjempet i mot den". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2010). "Ut av seg sjølv". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2011). "Utsnitt av en Elegisk Epistemologi". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2011). "Bak Kameraet: Intervju med Mieke Bal (andre del)". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2013). Om Skriving, Teori og Vitenskap: Intervju med Bruno Latour. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2020). "Academics face pushback for alleged racism and sexism". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2010). "Migrasjonstenkeren: Et intervju med Mieke Bal". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2019). Televisual epistemologies and beyond - an interview with Lisa Parks. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2016). "Tarantino er en amoralsk underholder". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2011). "Mer enn tusen ord.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2007). "Intervju med Martin Jay". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2004). Grønstad ga seg filmen i vold. (external link)
Media feature article
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2015). Eit Globalt Perspektiv på Humaniora. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2020). "Hva er problemet". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2025). Øyvind Vågnes Obituary. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2023). Nyliberal ytringsfridom. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2008). "Portrett av eit Augeblikk". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2008). "Eit Forsøk på å oppsummere den evigvarande tellekantdebatten". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2025). Minneord Øyvind Vågnes. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2004). Murnau og Soloppgangen. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2021). Utvikling eller avvikling av forsking?. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2009). Sosiopatiens anatomi - Michael Haneke og Das Weisse Band. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2009). "Film Heile Dagen Lang.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2020). "Har vi forstått hva Ways of Seeing egentlig handler om?". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). Ways of Seeing og det hvite blikket. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2025). Minneord om Øyvind Vågnes (1972-2025). (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2014). "Kunst som forsking, forsking som kunst". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). Kampen mot Kritisk Teori. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2007). "Abu Ghraib i den visuelle kulturen". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Randi Gressgård (2021). Væpnet til tennene med ytringsfrihet. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2024). "Sitat og Plagiat i ei Postlitterær Tid". (external link)
Editorial/Leader article
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2010). "Leder". (external link)
- Henrik Gustafsson; Asbjørn Grønstad (2015). Editorial: American, British and Canadian Studies, special issue: “Changing Screen Cultures: New Archaeologies, Ecologies, Topologies.”. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2011). "Leder.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2015). Editorial, Changing Screen Cultures. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2013). Leder. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2011). Leder. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2010). Leder. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2013). Leder. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes; Greil Marcus et al. (2011). INTERVIEW WITH GREIL MARCUS AND WERNER SOLLORS. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2012). "Leder". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2014). "Leder". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2012). "Leder". (external link)
Academic monograph
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2016). Film and the Ethical Imagination. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2008). Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2011). Screening the Unwatchable: Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2020). Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2021). Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State: A Controversial Play and its Contexts. (external link)
Academic literature review
Book anthology
- Henrik Gustafsson; Asbjørn Grønstad (2014). Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Lene Marite Johannessen (2025). Microutopias and Everyday Hope. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2016). Seeing Whole: Toward an Ethics and Ecology of Sight. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Lene M Johannessen (2005). To Become the Self One Is: A Critical Companion to Drude Krog Janson's A Saloonkeeper's Daughter. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2014). Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2010). Coverscaping : discovering album aesthetics. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2019). Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2019). Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture. (external link)
- Henrik Gustafsson; Asbjørn Grønstad (2012). Ethics and Images of Pain. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Gustafsson Henrik (2012). Ethics and Images of Pain. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Lene Marite Johannessen (2022). Microdystopias : Aesthetics and ideologies in a broken moment. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Henrik Gustafsson (2012). Ethics and Images of Pain. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Henrik Gustafsson; Øyvind Vågnes (2017). Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing. (external link)
Popular science article
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2015). "Birth of a Nation" - ein rasistisk klassikar fyller hundre". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2013). Den Ekstreme Humanismen - Ubehag på Film. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Jon Inge Faldalen (2024). "Ahhh!: Om David Bordwells begeistringsevne og kinofilmpoetikk". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2017). Mellom Demokrati og Ytringsfridom: James Buchanan og det radikale Høgre i USA. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2017). "Anti-demokratane: Mellom Demokrati og ytringsfridom - James Buchanan og det Radikale Høgre i USA". (external link)
Letter to the editor
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2021). Perspektiver på Tverrfaglighet. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2009). "Litt om med(ie)vitskap.". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2023). Teatervitskap og det Nasjonale Perspektivet. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2009). Litt om med(ie)vitskap. (external link)
Professional article
Non-fiction book chapter
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). Hva vi burde snakket om når vi snakket om Ways of Seeing. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2015). "Farwell to Visual Studies - Comment". (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad (2022). White Material: Michael Haneke's Ethics of Violence. (external link)
- Asbjørn Grønstad; Øyvind Vågnes (2017). Images and their Incarnations: An Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell. (external link)
See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.
Monographs
Ways of Seeing in the Neoliberal State
Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity (utkommer desember 2020).
Film and the Ethical Imagination (2016).
Screening the Unwatchable: Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema (2012).
Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American Cinema (2008).
Anthologies
Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture (2019).
Seeing Whole: Toward and Ethics and Ecology of Sight (2016).
Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing (2016).
Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image (2014).
Ethics and Images of Pain (2012).
Coverscaping: Discovering Album Aesthetics (2010).
To Become the Self One is: A Critical Companion to Drude Krog Janson's A Saloonkeeper's Daughter (2005).
Projects
Ongoing book projects:
* Aesthetics, Neoliberalism, Isegoria.
* The Poetics of Mourning: Cinema, Literature, Music
* Sleater-Kinney
* The Soundscapes Project
Nomadikon: New Ecologies of the Image (Trond Mohn Stiftelse (tidl. Bergen Forskningsstiftelse) 2008-2013).