Publications / Claire Thomson

Books

 

Thomson, C. C. (2018): Short Films from a Small Nation: Danish Informational Cinema 1935-1965. Edinburgh University Press, January 2018. [https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-short-films-from-a-small-nation.html]

Thomson, C. C. (2013). Thomas Vinterberg's FESTEN (The Celebration). Nordic Film Classics Series. Seattle, US: University of Washington Press / Museum Tusculanum Press. [http://www.mtp.hum.ku.dk/details.asp?eln=203500]

Thomson, C.C. (red. med Carbone E.) (2013): Love and Modernity. Essays on Scandinavian Drama, Letters and Literature in Honour of Professor Janet Garton. London: Norvik Press.

Thomson, C.C. (ed. with Fraser, M., Powell, M., Ross, R., Strauss, A.) (2012): Framed Horizons: Student Writing on Nordic Cinema. London: Norvik Press and UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities Imprint. [http://www.norvikpress.com/book-detail.php?i=103]

Thomson, C. C. (ed.) (2006). Northern Constellations: New Readings in Nordic Cinema. Norwich: Norvik Press. [http://www.norvikpress.com/book-detail.php?i=34]

Book chapters

Thomson, C.C. (forthcoming 2015). “‘The Slow Pulse of the Era’: Carl Th. Dreyer’s Film Style.” In Tiago de Luca and Nuno Barradas Jorge (red.). Slow Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Thomson, C.C. (forthcoming 2014/5). “’Education, Enlightenment, and General Propaganda’: Dansk Kulturfilm and Carl Th. Dreyer’s short films”. In Hjort, M. og Lindqvist, U. (red.). A Companion to Nordic Film. London, Wiley-Blackwell.

Thomson, C. (forthcoming). This Site Is Under Construction: Re-Mediating the Øresund Region around the Millennium. In Ringgaard, D., Dubois, T. (red.). Comparative History of Nordic Literary Cultures Vol. II: Place ( Vol. 2 ). Amsterdam: John Benjamins for International Comparative Literature Association (udkommer sommer 2013).

Thomson, C.C. (2013): ‘Ladies and Gentlemen! You are Creatures from a Planet Much More Civilised than your Own!’ Civilising Sublimities in Early Danish Science Fiction. In Thomson, C.C. (ed. with Carbone E.) (2012): Love and Modernity. Essays on Scandinavian Drama, Letters and Literature in Honour of Professor Janet Garton. London: Norvik Press.

Thomson, C. (2012). The Sun Will Shine on the Homes of the Future: Danish Welfare Architecture on a Scale of 1:1. In Gandy, M. (ed.). Urban Constellations (pp199-202). Berlin: Jovis.

Thomson, C. C. (2008). Narratives and Fictions of Empire (Denmark). In Poddar, P., Patke, R., Jensen, L. (red.). A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in Continental Europe and its Empires (pp.88-91). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Thomson, C. C. (2007). Stille eksistenser: Silence, Language and Landscape in Grønfeldt, Greig and Warner. In Thomsen, B. T. (red.). Centring on the Peripheries: Studies in Scandinavian, Scottish, Gaelic and Greenlandic Literature (pp.103-117). Norwich: Norvik Press.

Thomson, C. C. (2007). The Tale-End of History: Literary Form, Historiography, and the Danish (Post)-National Imagination. In Mole, R. C. M. (red.). Discursive Constructions of Identity in European Politics (pp.45-69). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Thomson, C. C. (2006). Incense in the Snow: Topologies of Intimacy and Interculturality in Friðriksson's Cold Fever and Gondry's Jóga. In Thomson, C. C. (red.). Northern Constellations: New Readings in Nordic Cinema (1 ed. pp.149-174). Norwich: Norvik Press.

Thomson, C. C. (2006). Introduction: Starry Constellations and Icy Fractals. Reading Nordic Films Past and Present. In Thomson, C. C. (red.). Northern Constellations: new Readings in Nordic Cinema (pp.11-18). Norwich: Norvik Press.

Thomson, C. (2004). 'En usynlig krop': Transgressing the Boundaries of the Body in Vibeke Grønfeldt's Mulighedernes land and I dag. In Forsås-Scott, H. (red.). Gender - Power - Text: Scandinavian Culture in the Twentieth Century (pp247- 62). Norwich: Norvik Press.

Journal articles

Thomson, C.C. (2012). ‘Lamps, Light and Enlightenment. On PHs Danmark and Ole Roos’ PH lys.’ Kosmorama: Tidsskrift for filmkunst og filmkultur # 249 http://www.kosmorama.org/ServiceMenu/05-English/Articles/Lamps-Light-and-Enlightenment.aspx
Thomson, C. C. (2013). (Hot) Dogs: of Fast Food and Companion Species. Short Film Studies 3(1), 45-48 doi:10.1386/sfs.3.1.45_1

Thomson, C. C. (2011). Air, Scent and the Senses. Short Film Studies 1(2), 245-249, doi:10.1386/sfs.1.2.245_1.

Thomson, C. C. (2008). Material Resistance: Mogens Klitgaard's Den guddommelige hverdag (1942) as National Narrative and Technotext. Scandinavica 47(1)

Thomson, C. (2007). Fortællinger om huden: Peter Høegs posthumane kroppe. Synsvinkler: Tidsskrift for nordisk litteratur og sprog 35(May 2007), 24-49

Thomson, C. C. (2007). It's All About Snow: Limning the Post-human Body in Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972) and It's All About Love (Vinterberg, 2003). New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film 5(1), 3-21 doi:10.1386/ncin.5.1.3/1.

Thomson, C. C. (2006). A Land of Machines: On Time, Technology and Otherness in some tales by HC Andersen.Textualities 1(Magic Afoot), 47-56

Thomson, C. C. (2005). Introduction: Re-imagining Nordic National Narratives. Scandinavica 44(2), 131-142

Thomson, C. C. (2005). Walking in the City, Mapping the World: Migrational Spaces in Peer Hultberg's Byen og Verden. Scandinavica 44(2), 203-228

Thomson, C. C. (2004). 'Slainte, I goes and he says his word': Morvern Callar Undergoes the Trial of the Foreign. Language and Literature. Journal of the Poetics and Linguistics Association 13(1), 55-71 doi:10.1177/0963947004039487.

Thomson, C. C. (2002). 'Vi æder vores eget lort': Scatology and Eschatology in Peter Høeg's Forestilling om det tyvende århundrede. Scandinavica 41(1), 37-59

Thomson, C. C. (1999). 'My Water of Leith Runs Through A Double City': Cityscape and Mindscape in the Poetry of Norman MacCaig and Klaus Rifbjerg. Northern Studies: The Journal of the Scottish Society for Northern Studies 34, 61- 88

Other essays

Thomson, C. (2012). 'The Delayed Rays of a Star': Strindberg's Celestographs in the Light of Camera Lucida. Swedish Book Review 2012(2), 50-56

Thomson, C. C. (2010). "Cultivate the Nation, Don't Nationalise Culture!" Intercultural Cinema in a Small Language Department. Subject Centre for Language, Linguistics and Area Studies Liaison Magazine (4)

Online publications

Thomson, C.C. (2003). Danmarkshistorier: National Imagination and Novel in Late Twentieth Century Denmark. Doctoral thesis, University of Edinburgh. http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/1940/
Thomson, C. C. (2010). ‘The Artist’s Touch: Dreyer, Thorvaldsen, Venus’. Carl Th. Dreyer: The Man and his Work. Dansk Filminstitut. http://english.carlthdreyer.dk/AboutDreyer/Visual-style/The-Artists-Touch-Dreyer-Thorvaldsen-Venus.aspx

Contact

C. Claire Thomson
claire.thomson@ucl.ac.uk