Tarja Laine
Biography
Dr. Tarja Laine (Tampere, Finland 1971) is Assistant Professor of Film Studies and the program coordinator of BA Media and Culture. She is the author of Feeling Cinema: Emotional Dynamics in Film Studies (2011) and Shame and Desire: Emotion, Intersubjectivity, Cinema (2007). Her essays on emotions and sensations in cinema have been published in journals such as Film-Philosophy, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Media, Culture & Society, Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, Studies in European Cinema, New Review of Film and Television Studies, PostScript and Film and Philosophy. Her research interests include cinematicemotions and film-phenomenology.
Selected Publications
Books
Feeling Cinema: Emotional Dynamics in Film Studies. New York: Continuum, 2011.
Shame and Desire: Emotion, Intersubjectivity, Cinema. Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2007.
Contributions to books
“Dangerous Liaisons and Counterfeit Affections: Cinema as Seduction.” In Acting and Performance in Moving Image Culture: Bodies, Screens, Renderings, edited by Jörg Sternagel, Deborah Levitt and Dieter Mersch. Bielefeld: Transcript (forthcoming).
“Hidden Shame Exposed: Hidden and the Spectator. In The Cinema of Michael Haneke, edited by Ben McCann and David Sorfa. London: Wallflower Press (forthcoming).
“Haneke’s ‘Funny’ Games with the Audience (Revisited).” In On Michael Haneke, edited by Brian Price and John David Rhodes, 51-62. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010.
“Failed Tragedy and TraumaticLove in Ingmar Bergman’s Shame.” In Mind theScreen: Media Concepts According to Thomas Elsaesser, edited by Jaap Kooijman, Patricia Pisters and Wanda Strauven, 60-70. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008.
“Family Matters in Eat Drink Man Woman: Food Envy, Family Longing, or Intercultural Knowledge through the Senses?” In Shooting the Family: Transnational Media and Intercultural Values, edited by Patricia Pisters and Wim Staat, 103-114. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005.
International refereed journals
“Imprisoned in Disgust: Roman Polanski’s Repulsion.” Film-Philosophy 2 (2011): 35-50. http://www.film-philosophy.com/index.php/f-p/article/view/275
“Entangled Life: The Double Life of Véronique.” Film and Philosophy 15 (2011): 127-136.
“SMS Scandals: Sex, Media and Politics in Finland.” Media, Culture & Society 1 (2010): 151-160.
“’It's the Sense of Touch.’ Skin in the Making of Cinematic Consciousness.” Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture 1(2007): 35-48.
“Lars von Trier, Dogville,andthe Hodological Space of Cinema.” Studies in European Cinema2 (2006): 129-141.
International non-refereed journals
“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly as an Emotional Event.” Midwest Studies in Philosophy 1 (2010): 295-305.
“Affective Telepathy, or the Intuition of the Heart: Persona with Mulholland Drive.” New Review of Film and Television Studies 3 (2009): 325-338.
“The Synaesthetic Turn” (with Wanda Strauven). New Review of Film and Television Studies 3 (2009): 249-255.
“Love is a Dangerous Game: Power and the Rules of Intimacy in Michael Winterbottom’s Code 46.” Cinemascope 6 (2006): http://www.cinemascope.it.
“Cinema as Second Skin: Under the Membrane of Horror Film.” New Review of Film and Television Studies 2 (2006): 93-106.
“Eija-Liisa Ahtila's Affective Images in House.” Mediascape 2 (2006): http://www.tft.ucla.edu/mediascape/features/laine.html
“Shame on Us: Shame, National Identity and the Finnish Doping Scandal.” The International Journal of the History of Sport 1 (2006): 67-81.
“American Psycho: A Double Portrait of Serial Yuppie Patrick Bateman” (with Jaap Kooijman). PostScript 3 (2003): 46-56.
“Jim Carrey: The King of Embarrassment.” CineAction 55 (2001): 50-56.
“Empathy, Sympathy and the Philosophy of Horror in Kubrick's The Shining.” Film and Philosophy (2001): 72-88.