Research groups
Research
Tv series, production studies, film history, film analysis, film theory, criticism, video essays, copyright
Publications
Popular scientific lecture
- Lavik, Erlend (2025). David Lynch: The Art Life - Hva er arven etter Lynch?. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2018). Paneldebatt: Teveserien vs. romanen. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2015). "The Wire" - en kamp for tilværelsen. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2014). Hva skjedde med TV-serien?. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2014). The Wire og den tredje gullalderen. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2014). The Wire og den tredje gullalderen. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2010). HBO-effekten. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2009). Filmkritikken i krise. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2009). Åpningstale til utstillingen "Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest" av Yang Fudong. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2009). Frå klassisk Hollywood til ny kompleksitet. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2009). Filmanalyse. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2008). Filmatiske virkemidler. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2008). A journey through Hollywood history. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2008). Film culture in the digital era. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2008). Filmanalyse. Foredrag for lærere i den videregående skolen. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2008). En reise i Hollywoodfilmens historie. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2007). Digitle verktøy: En estetisk revolusjon?. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2006). Debatt om David Lynch, studentersamfunnet i Bergen. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2006). Klassisk og post-klassisk Hollywoodfilm. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend; Klevjer, Rune (2006). Film og dataspill - to sider av samme sak?. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2005). Romantikk på film. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2005). Singin' in the Rain. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2004). Om innkjøpsordningen. Filmklubbforbundets paneldebatt, 24/4 2004. (external link)
Article in business/trade/industry journal
- Lavik, Erlend (2024). Maktas snubletråder - del I. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2024). Maktas snubletråder - del II. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2023). Dokumentarens problem - del 3. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2023). Dokumentarens problem - del 2. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2023). Dokumnetarens problem - del 1. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2023). Tar maskinene over?. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2022). Dokumentarisk dramatisering og jakten på sannhet. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2022). Identitetspolitiske irrganger. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2022). Filmatiske TV-serier - del 1. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2022). Filmatiske TV-serier - del 2. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2022). Om kritiske begrunnelser og kritikkens begrunnelse.. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2022). Den umulige kritikken. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2022). Dramedy-formatets tvetydigheter. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2022). Om estetisk ekspertise. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2022). TV-dramaets gullalder (del II). (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2022). Hva/hvem er en serieskaper. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2022). TV-dramaets gullalder (del I). (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2022). Kreativitetens begrensninger. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2021). Notes on the scholarliness of videography. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2019). Gjensyn med The Sopranos – eller kunsten å ”recappe” en av tidenes tv-serier. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2018). Det vi snakker om når vi snakker om tv-serier. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2012). Videoessay om The Wire. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2012). Høydepunkter fra BIFF 2012. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2011). Ødelegger reklame opplevelsen?. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2011). "Hva skal vi med filmkritikk?". (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2011). "Er tv virkelig bedre enn film?". (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2011). Høydepunkter fra BIFF. (external link)
Academic article
- Lavik, Erlend (2024). Cinematic TV drama. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2022). Towards a pragmatist aesthetics. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2021). Setting the Scene: The Opening 164 Seconds of The Wire. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2013). The Video Essay: The Future of Academic Film and Television Criticism?. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend; van Gompel, Stef (2013). Quality, merit, aesthetics and purpose: An inquiry into EU copyright law’s eschewal of other criteria than originality. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend; van Gompel, Stef (2013). On the prospects of raising the originality requirement in copyright law: Perspectives from the Humanities. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2011). The Poetics and Rhetoric of The Wire's Intertextuality. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2009). 'Not the obstacle but the means': Film history and the postmodern challenge. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2009). New Narrative Depths? Spectacle and Narrative in Blockbuster Cinema Revisited. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2008). The battle for the blockbuster: discourses of spectacle and excess. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2006). Narrative Structure in "The Sixth Sense": A New Twist in 'Twist Movies'?. (external link)
Reader opinion piece
Book review
- Lavik, Erlend (2021). Overflod og fordervelse. Essay om Succession.. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2020). Bobilvandrere. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2020). Monstrøse fascinasjoner. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2018). Appetittvekkende produksjonsstudier. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2015). Tilsvar på bokanmeldelse. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2012). Mystisk, magisk, svulstig, tragisk: Terrence Malicks The Tree of Life. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2009). Instruktive filmanalyser. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2009). Relativt komplekst om narrativ kompleksitet. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2007). Merkverdig Mylder. (external link)
Programme participation
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
- Lavik, Erlend; Moe, Hallvard; Gripsrud, Jostein (2017). Digitale tider. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2014). Romantic authorship in copyright law and the uses of aesthetics. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2012). Theory's pyrrhic victory. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2010). Forward to the Past: The Strange Case of The Wire. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2008). Filmkritikk i den digitale tidsalderen. (external link)
- Gripsrud, Jostein; Lavik, Erlend (2008). Film Audiences. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2004). Pressen og teatrene. En case-studie fra Bergen. (external link)
Popular scientific article
- Lavik, Erlend (2016). Alt om ingenting. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2014). Mellom det gode og det onde: Karaktertegning i "The Wire". (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2014). "Ingen grunn til berøringsangst". (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2013). Hva skal vi med supercuts?. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2010). Filmkritikkens vedvarende impotens - tid for digital Viagra?. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2006). "The Way Bordwell Tells It": Om Klassisk og post-klassisk Hollywoodfilm. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2006). "The Way Bordwell Tells It": On classical and post-classical Hollywood cinema. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2002). Evnen til å kjede seg. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2002). Historieskriving i Hollywood. (external link)
Academic monograph
Digital learning tools
Academic lecture
- Lavik, Erlend (2012). Videoessayet som vitenskapelig sjanger: filosofiske, epistemologiske og opphavsrettslige dimensjoner. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2011). Digital Film Criticism. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2011). The Rise and Fall of Theory. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2010). Intertekstualitet og symbolikk i The Wire. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2010). The relationship between the humanities and law as hermeneutic disciplines. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2009). The Strange Case of The Wire. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2009). Beyond the Literal: Intertextuality, Allegory, and Symbolism in The Wire. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2009). Character complexity in The Wire. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2008). The Strange Case of The Wire. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2008). The Wire. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2006). Spectacle and Excess in the Blockbuster. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2005). Narration in The Sixth Sense. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2003). A New Twist in "Twist Movies"?. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2003). Film og dramaturgi. (external link)
Interview
- Lavik, Erlend (2009). Kva makt ligg det i å få folk til å le?. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2009). Virus og pester yndet filmtema. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2008). Flaggermusmannen. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2008). Bruker «The Daily Show» aktivt i presidentkampen. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2008). Mer lekent Hollywood. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2008). Voldsom voldskritikk. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2008). Å "være seg selv" som kjendis. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2007). Musikerskjebner populært på kino. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2007). Blockbustere til forskningsbegjær. (external link)
- Lavik, Erlend (2005). Hollywood før og nå. (external link)
Doctoral dissertation
Poster
Thesis at a second degree level
See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.
2014: "Tv-serier: The Wire og den tredje gullalderen", Universitetsforlaget, ISBN: 9788215023182.
2014: "Romantic authorship in copyright law and the uses of aesthetics", i The Work of Authorship, edited by Mireille van Eechoud, University Amsterdam Press. Available as free ebook here.
2013: "On the prospects of raising the originality requirement in copyright law: Perspectives from the Humanities", co-authored with Stef van Gompel, in The Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA, vol. 60, no. 3.Preprint available here.
2013: "Quality, merit, aesthetics and purpose: An inquiry into EU copyright law’s eschewal of other criteria than originality", co-authored with Stef van Gompel, in Revue Internationale du Droit d'Auteur, vol. 236. Preprint available here:
2012: "The Video Essay: The Future of Academic Film and Television Criticism?", in Frames, no. 1.
2012: "Style in The Wire", video essay on Vimeo.
2012: "Mystisk, magisk, svulstig, tragisk: Terrence Malicks The Tree of Life". Review of Tree of Life, in Ekfrase, no. 1, 2012.
2012: "Theory's Pyrrhic Victory", in Hunting High and Low. Skriftfest til Jostein Gripsrud, edited by Jan Fredrik Hovden and Karl Knapskog, Scandinavian Academic Press.
2011: "The Poetics and Rhetorics of The Wire's Intertextuality", in Critical Studies in Television, 1: 6.
2010: "Den norske filmoffentligheten", in Vagant, no. 4.
2010: "Forward to the Past: The Strange Case of The Wire", in "Relocating Television. Television in the Digital Context", edited by Jostein Gripsrud, New York: Routledge.
2010: "Filmkritikkens vedvarende impotens - tid for digital Viagra?", in Norsk Medietidsskrift, no. 1.
2009: "New Narrative Depths? Spectacle and Narrative in Blockbuster Cinema Revisited", in Nordicom Review, 30:2. Available here.
2009: "'Not the Obstacle but the Means': Film History and the Postmodern Challenge", in Rethinking History, 13:3. Available here. (subscription required).
2009: "Instruktive filmanalyser" . Review of Filmanalytiske tradisjoner, in Norsk Medietidsskrift, no. 2.
2009: "Relativt komplekst om narrativ kompleksitet". Review of Puzzle Films. Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema., in 16:9. Full text.
2008: "Filmkritikk i den digitale tidsalderen", in Kulturjournalistikkens Offentlighet, edited by Karl Knapskog and Leif Ove Larsen). Spartacus Forlag.
2008: Changing Narratives. Five Essays on Hollywood History. Doctoral dissertation.
2008: "The Battle for the Blockbuster: Discourses of Spectacle and Excess", in New Review of Film and Television Studies, 6:2. Available here.
2008: "Film audiences", co-authored with Jostein Gripsrud, in Handbook of Film Studies, edited by James Donald and Michael Renov, London: Sage.
2007: "Komikk og Romantikk i Hollywood", in 16:9, no. 20, February 2007. Full text.
2006: "Narrative Structure in The Sixth Sense: A New Twist in 'Twist Movies'?", in The Velvet Light Trap, no. 58. Full text (subscription required).
2006: "'The Way Bordwell Tells It': Om Klassisk og post-klassisk Hollywoodfilm", in Norsk Medietidsskrift, no. 3. Full text.
2004: "Pressen og teatrene. En case-studie fra Bergen", in Søkelys på kulturjournalistikk. Bergen: Department of Information Science and Media Studies. ISBN 82-8033-023-2.
2001: Kjærlighet i seriemonogamiets tidsalder. Romantiske komedier i Hollywood. Hovedoppgave/Masters thesis, Bergen: Department for Media Studies