UiB researchers are among the most cited scholars in Norway. Below you will find a selection of recent books from our staff. Publications in Norwegian are not featured here.
2017
Grønstad, Asbjørn (Department of Information Science and Media Studies) Henrik Gustafsson, Øyvind Vågnes (Department of Information Science and Media Studies) (eds.): Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing. New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
“insight into the way both the invisible and visible dimensions of the image play a role in the creation of meaning”
Keu
l, István (ed.) (Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion): Consecration Rituals in South Asia. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2017.
2016
Grønstad, Asbjørn
(Department of Information Science and Media Studies): Film and the ethical imagination. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
“essential reading for anyone with an interest in questions of ethics and cinematic form”
Jacobsen, Knut A. (Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion) (ed.): Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India. London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
“The editor’s introduction summarizes the volume’s contents and writes about population and economic growth…this is a major contribution”
Ledb
etter, Mark and Asbjørn Grønstad (Department of Information Science and Media Studies) (eds.): Seeing Whole. Toward an Ethics and Ecology of Sight. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
“Seeing whole is seeing better, as the Introduction states.”
Stausberg, Michael
(Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion) and Steven Engler (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
2015
Sillars, Stuart
(Department of Foreign Languages): Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
“a remarkable and important book and one that…casts a genuinely new light on Shakespeare’s works”
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