Anna Backman Rogers
About Anna Backman Rogers
I graduated from the University of Edinburgh, UK in 2011 with a PhD in Film Studies. From 2010 to 2012 I held the position of Assistant Professor in Film at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. From 2012 to 2014 I was a postdoctoral fellow in Film Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. From 2014 onwards, I hold the position of Senior Lecturer in Feminism and Visual Culture at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
I am the author of American Independent Cinema: Rites of Passage and The Crisis Image (Edinburgh University Press, 2015); Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure (Berghahn 2018); Still Life: Notes on Barbara Loden's 'Wanda' (1970) (Punctum Books, 2020)
I am the co-editor with Laura Mulvey of Feminisms (Amsterdam University Press, 2015) and the co-editor with Boel Ulfsdotter of Female Authorship and the Documentary Image: Theory, Practice and Aesthetics and Female Agency and Documentary Strategies: Subjectivities, Identity, and Activism (both with Edinburgh University Press, 2017)
I am the co-founder and editor in chief, with Anna Misiak, of the online academic feminist journal MAI: FEMINISM AND VISUAL CULTURE
I am currently preparing a monograph on Lynne Ramsay, Simone de Beauvoir, ethics, ambiguity and cinema (Berghahn 2023) and I am writing the BFI Classics volume on Peter Weir's 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' (Bloomsbury, 2022). I am also co-editing with Laura Mulvey a book of conversations with feminist practitioners and scholars (Bloomsbury, 2023).
I was the conference director for Film-Philosophy, 2018 at the University of Gothenburg, which placed special emphasis on gender and feminist issues.
I am an outspoken, engaged feminist who has frequently commented in a public capacity on feminist politics in relation to visual culture at large (for Swedish television SVT; the British Film Institute; The Daily Telegraph; Dazed and Confused; Nordic Women in Film; Svenska Bio; Svenska Dagbladet; Swedish Elle; FOKUS; Femina; The Gentlewoman). I am available for comment and critique within popular outlets and forums.
I am currently supervising a PhD on Latin American feminist horror cinema and have examined a PhD in relation to feminism and comic books and graphic novels. I am also available for supervision and examination within a feminist capacity.
I specialise in feminist philosophy, film-philosophy, and women's cinema.
I hold both British and Swedish nationality and speak English, Swedish and French (after a fashion).
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Still Life: Notes on Barbara Loden's 'Wanda'
(1970)
Anna Backman Rogers
- 2021-01-01 -
Liminal Spaces, Lesbian Desire and Veering off Course in Todd Haynes’s Carol
(2015)
Anna Backman Rogers
Film and Domestic Space: Architectures, Representations, Dispositif - 2020-01-01 -
And that I see a darkness : the stardom of Kirsten Dunst in collaboration with Sofia Coppola in three
images
Anna Backman Rogers
Film-Philosophy. International Salon-Journal - 2019-01-01 -
Liminal Spaces, Lesbian Desire and Veering off Course in Todd Haynes’s Carol
(2015)
Anna Backman Rogers
Film and domestic space - 2019-01-01 -
Review of Lucy Bolton´s contemporary cinema and the philosophy of Iris
Murdoch
Anna Backman Rogers
The Iris Murdoch review - 2019-01-01 -
A dialogue with Julia
Peirone
Anna Backman Rogers
Mai : feminism & visual culture - 2019-01-01 -
Bringing Brigid Brophy back : Brophy´s feminist
legacy
Anna Backman Rogers
Mai : feminism & visual culture - 2019-01-01 -
In conversation with Aparna Sharma : feminist documentary practice in northern
India
Anna Backman Rogers
Mai : feminism & visual culture - 2019-01-01 -
Sofia Coppola : the politics of visual
pleasure
Anna Backman Rogers
- 2019-01-01 -
Imaging Absence as Abjection: The Female Body in Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin
Suicides
Anna Backman Rogers
Screening the past - 2018-01-01 -
Introduction to Female Agency and Documentary Strategies. Subjectivities, Identity and
Activism
Boel Ulfsdotter, Anna Backman Rogers
Female Agency and Documentary Strategies Subjectivities, Identity and Activism / Boel Ulfsdotter, Anna Backman Rogers (red.) - 2018-01-01 -
Introduction to Female Authorship and the Documentary Image
Theory, Practice and
Aesthetics
Boel Ulfsdotter, Anna Backman Rogers
Female Authorship and the Documentary Image Theory, Practice and Aesthetics / edited by Boel Ulfsdotter, Anna Backman Rogers - 2018-01-01 -
"The Final Projects of Hannah Wilke and Jo Spence": A dialogue between Elena Crippa and Anna Backman
Rogers
Anna Backman Rogers
Female authorship and the documentary image : theory, practice and aesthetics / edited by Boel Ulfsdotter, Anna Backman Rogers - 2018-01-01 -
Female Agency and Documentary Strategies: Subjectivities, Identity and
Activism
Boel Ulfsdotter, Anna Backman Rogers
- 2018-01-01 -
"Not Because My Heart Is Gone; Simply The Other Side": Francesca Woodman’s Relational and Ephemeral Subjectivity at the Limit of the
Image"
Anna Backman Rogers
Female Agency and Documentary Strategies Subjectivities, Identity and Activism / edited by Boel Ulfsdotter, Anna Backman Rogers. - 2017-01-01 -
Female Authorship and the Documentary Image: Theory, Practice and
Aesthetics
Boel Ulfsdotter, Anna Backman Rogers
- 2017-01-01 -
Abandoning Happiness for Life: Mourning and Futurity in Maja Borg’s Future My Love
(2012)
Anna Backman Rogers
The European Journal of Women's Studies - 2016-01-01 -
Unnameable
Anna Backman Rogers
Psychoanalysis and the Unrepresentable: From culture to the clinic / edited by Agnieszka Piotrowska and Ben Tyrer - 2016-01-01 -
Imaging grief and loss : Laura Mulvey's Death 24 x a second as
film-philosophy
Anna Backman Rogers
De Arte - 2015-01-01 -
Preface
Anna Backman Rogers
Feminisms. Diversity, Difference and Multiplicity in Contemporary Film Cultures / edited by Laura Mulvey and Anna Backman Rogers - 2015-01-01 -
Disconnection Notices: An Interview with Miranda
July
Miranda July, Anna Backman Rogers
Feminisms. Diversity, Difference and Multiplicity in Contemporary Film Cultures / edited by Laura Mulvey and Anna Backman Rogers. - 2015-01-01 -
American Independent Cinema : rites of passage and the crisis
image
Anna Backman Rogers
- 2015-01-01 -
Lena Dunham ’ s Girls : Can-Do Girls, Feminist Killjoys, and Women Who Make Bad
Choices
Anna Backman Rogers
Feminisms. Diversity, Difference and Multiplicity in Contemporary Film Cultures / edited by Laura Mulvey and Anna Backman Rogers. - 2015-01-01 -
Feminisms : diversity, difference and multiplicity in contemporary film
cultures
Laura Mulvey, Anna Backman Rogers
- 2015-01-01 -
The crisis of performance and performance of crisis: The powers of the false in Grey Gardens
(1976)
Anna Backman Rogers
Studies in Documentary Film - 2015-01-01 -
Realism and Gus Van Sant’s
Elephant
Anna Backman Rogers
Realism and The Audiovisual Media / Lúcia Nagib and Cecilia Mello (eds.) - 2014-01-01 -
A Real Human Being and A Real hero : Stylistic Excess, Dead Time and Intensified Continuity in Nicolas Winding Refn's
'Drive'
Anna Backman Rogers, Miklós Kiss
New Cinemas - 2014-01-01 -
Review of Deleuze and Cinema, Deleuze and World Cinema and Deleuze and the Cinemas of Performance: Powers of
Affection
Anna Backman Rogers
New Cinemas - 2013-01-01 -
The Body of Dissolution: Becoming-Imperceptible in Gus Van Sant’s Last
Days.(2004)
Anna Backman Rogers
European Journal of American Culture - 2013-01-01 -
Review: Female Consciousness: Irigaray, Cinema and Thinking
Women
Anna Backman Rogers
Screen - 2012-01-01 -
The Historical Threshold : Crisis, Ritual and Liminality in Sofia Coppola’s Marie-Antoinette
(2006)
Anna Backman Rogers
Relief:Revue de Litterature Francaise - 2012-01-01 -
Ephemeral Bodies and Threshold Creatures: The Crisis of the Adolescent Rite of Passage in Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides and Gus Van Sant’s
Elephant
Anna Backman Rogers
Necsus: European Journal of Media Studies - 2012-01-01 -
Making Nothing Happen: The Transition from Reactive Nihilism to Affirmation in Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers
(2005)
Anna Backman Rogers
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media. - 2011-01-01