Johannes Riis

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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 journal › Journal article › Research › peer-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 proceeding › Book chapter › Research

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 proceeding › Book chapter › Research

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 journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

5. Published

   Spillets kunst - følelser i film

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

   Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research

6. Published

   Bogey's Imaginative Contribution

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

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research

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 proceeding › Book chapter › Research

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 journal › Journal article › Research › peer-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 journal › Journal article › Research

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 journal › Journal article › Research

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 proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review