Mette Hjort
I am the Dean of Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University, where I am also Chair Professor in Humanities.
From 2016-2018 I was Professor of Film Studies at the University of Copenhagen, at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication. During this time I also held a Professor II appointment at the Department of Art and Media Studies at NTNU, Trondheim. I served on the Board of the Danish Film Institute, appointed for a 4-year term by the Danish Minister of Culture.
From 2001 - 2016 I worked in Hong Kong, first at HKU and subsequently at Lingnan University. Recruited by Lingnan University, Hong Kong, in 2005 to establish a programme in Visual Studies and to develop it into a stand-alone department, I was the University's Chair Professor of Visual Studies from 2009-2016. I served as programme director when the Visual Studies programme was housed in the Department of Philosophy and became Head of the Department of Visual Studies when the programme became a stand-alone department in 2009. In 2013, I moved into Senior Management, serving as Associate Vice President of Academic Quality Assurance and Internationalisation, a position I held for a two-year term. During this period a key task was to prepare Lingnan University for the Quality Assurance Audit of January 2016.
I have served on the University Grants Committee, appointed by Hong Kong's Chief Executive in a personal capacity and for a three-year term (2013-2016). Consisting of 22 local and nonlocal members, the UGC develops policies for, and funds, Hong Kong's 8 government-funded universities.
Previously I have taught at McGill University (granted early tenure in 1994), the Copenhagen Business School, Aalborg University, and University of Hong Kong. Visiting affiliations include University College London, the University of St Andrews, and Kyoto University.
I hold an Honorary Doctorate from Aalborg University (awarded 2017) ; since 2007, an Affiliate professorship in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle and, since 2018, a Visiting Professorship at the University of South Wales.
Supervisors: Philosopher Charles Taylor (for the M.A., McGill University), Art Historian Louis Marin (for the Ph.D., EHESS, and Paris)
Address: Dean's Office
Faculty of Arts
Hong Kong Baptist University
Kowloon Tong
Hong Kong
From 2016-2018 I was Professor of Film Studies at the University of Copenhagen, at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication. During this time I also held a Professor II appointment at the Department of Art and Media Studies at NTNU, Trondheim. I served on the Board of the Danish Film Institute, appointed for a 4-year term by the Danish Minister of Culture.
From 2001 - 2016 I worked in Hong Kong, first at HKU and subsequently at Lingnan University. Recruited by Lingnan University, Hong Kong, in 2005 to establish a programme in Visual Studies and to develop it into a stand-alone department, I was the University's Chair Professor of Visual Studies from 2009-2016. I served as programme director when the Visual Studies programme was housed in the Department of Philosophy and became Head of the Department of Visual Studies when the programme became a stand-alone department in 2009. In 2013, I moved into Senior Management, serving as Associate Vice President of Academic Quality Assurance and Internationalisation, a position I held for a two-year term. During this period a key task was to prepare Lingnan University for the Quality Assurance Audit of January 2016.
I have served on the University Grants Committee, appointed by Hong Kong's Chief Executive in a personal capacity and for a three-year term (2013-2016). Consisting of 22 local and nonlocal members, the UGC develops policies for, and funds, Hong Kong's 8 government-funded universities.
Previously I have taught at McGill University (granted early tenure in 1994), the Copenhagen Business School, Aalborg University, and University of Hong Kong. Visiting affiliations include University College London, the University of St Andrews, and Kyoto University.
I hold an Honorary Doctorate from Aalborg University (awarded 2017) ; since 2007, an Affiliate professorship in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle and, since 2018, a Visiting Professorship at the University of South Wales.
Supervisors: Philosopher Charles Taylor (for the M.A., McGill University), Art Historian Louis Marin (for the Ph.D., EHESS, and Paris)
Address: Dean's Office
Faculty of Arts
Hong Kong Baptist University
Kowloon Tong
Hong Kong
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With insider information about the making, marketing and distribution of award-winning films, and interviews with seminal directors such as Anders Thomas Jensen, Annette K. Olesen, and Lone Scherfig, The Danish Directors 2 allows readers entry into what might seem to be a forbidding body of work. The editors are knowledgeable and sensitive interrogators, and their appreciation of the specific qualities of each director’s work elicits thoughtful replies. This volume will appeal to students, scholars, and cinephiles alike.
Emphasizing the new documentary cinema, this book features film-makers who belong to the generation born in the 1970s. Many of the interviewees were trained at the National Film School of Denmark’s now legendary Department of Documentary and Television. The term ‘new’ also captures tendencies that cut across the work of the film-makers. For example, for the generation in question, internationalization and the development of a new digital media culture are inevitable aspects of everyday life, and, indeed, of the professional environments in which they operate. A comprehensive overview of documentary directors currently working in Denmark, this is the only book of its kind about this growing area of Danish cinema.
The directors interviewed for the book are:
Phie Ambo, Dola Bonfils, Dorte Høeg Brask, Mads Brügger, Pernille Rose Grønkjær, Jesper Jargil, Torben Skjødt Jensen, Max Kestner, Mikala Krogh, Simone Aaberg Kærn, Asger Leth, Janus Metz, Eva Mulvad, Michael Noer, Katia Forbert Petersen, Jeppe Rønde, Sami Saif, Anne Wivel and Anders Østergaard
Papers by Mette Hjort
With insider information about the making, marketing and distribution of award-winning films, and interviews with seminal directors such as Anders Thomas Jensen, Annette K. Olesen, and Lone Scherfig, The Danish Directors 2 allows readers entry into what might seem to be a forbidding body of work. The editors are knowledgeable and sensitive interrogators, and their appreciation of the specific qualities of each director’s work elicits thoughtful replies. This volume will appeal to students, scholars, and cinephiles alike.
Emphasizing the new documentary cinema, this book features film-makers who belong to the generation born in the 1970s. Many of the interviewees were trained at the National Film School of Denmark’s now legendary Department of Documentary and Television. The term ‘new’ also captures tendencies that cut across the work of the film-makers. For example, for the generation in question, internationalization and the development of a new digital media culture are inevitable aspects of everyday life, and, indeed, of the professional environments in which they operate. A comprehensive overview of documentary directors currently working in Denmark, this is the only book of its kind about this growing area of Danish cinema.
The directors interviewed for the book are:
Phie Ambo, Dola Bonfils, Dorte Høeg Brask, Mads Brügger, Pernille Rose Grønkjær, Jesper Jargil, Torben Skjødt Jensen, Max Kestner, Mikala Krogh, Simone Aaberg Kærn, Asger Leth, Janus Metz, Eva Mulvad, Michael Noer, Katia Forbert Petersen, Jeppe Rønde, Sami Saif, Anne Wivel and Anders Østergaard
Emphasizing the new documentary cinema, this book features film-makers who belong to the generation born in the 1970s. Many of the interviewees were trained at the National Film School of Denmark’s now legendary Department of Documentary and Television. The term ‘new’ also captures tendencies that cut across the work of the film-makers. For example, for the generation in question, internationalization and the development of a new digital media culture are inevitable aspects of everyday life, and, indeed, of the professional environments in which they operate. A comprehensive overview of documentary directors currently working in Denmark, this is the only book of its kind about this growing area of Danish cinema.""""