Faculty of Humanities
W.B.S. Strauven
dr. W.B.S. (Wanda) Strauven
Capaciteitsgroep Mediastudies University of Amsterdam


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Wanda Strauven is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Media Studies Department at the University of Amsterdam. She is Vice Director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) and co-founder of the Imagined Futures (iFut) research group. Her research and teaching interests include early and avant-garde cinema, technological fantasies, synaesthesia, media archaeology and media ecology. She is the author of Marinetti e il cinema (2006). She (co-)edited Mind the Screen (2008), The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded (2006) and Homo Orthopedicus (2001).  

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Books

  • (ed.) (with Jaap Kooijman & Patricia Pisters) Mind the Screen. Media Concepts According to Thomas Elsaesser. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008. 376 pp.
  • (ed.) The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006. 460 pp.
  • Marinetti e il cinema: tra attrazione e sperimentazione. Udine: Campanotto, 2006. 296 pp.
  • (ed.) (with Nathalie Roelens) Homo orthopedicus. Le corps et ses prothèses à l'époque (post)moderniste. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2001. 525 pp.

Book Chapters (selection)

  • “The Observer’s Dilemma: To Touch or Not to Touch.” Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications. Ed. Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka. Berkeley / Los Angeles : University of California Press, 2011. 148-163.
  • “Futurist Poetics and the Cinematic Imagination: Marinetti’s Cinema without Films.” Futurism and the Technological Imagination. Ed.Günter Berghaus. Amsterdam / New York : Rodopi, 2009. 201-228.
  • (with Jaap Kooijman and Patricia Pisters) “A Looking Glass for Old and New Screens.” Mind the Screen: Media Concepts According to Thomas Elsaesser. Ed. JaapKooijman, Patricia Pisters and Wanda Strauven. Amsterdam : AmsterdamUniversity Press, 2008. 9-15.
  • “S/M.” Mind the Screen: Media Concepts According to Thomas Elsaesser. Ed. Jaap Kooijman, Patricia Pisters and Wanda Strauven. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2008. 276-287.
  • “The Imagination of Wireless Distribution,” Networks of Entertainment: Early Film Distribution 1895-1915, ed. Frank Kessler and Nanna Verhoeff. London : John Libbey, 2007. 295-303.
  • “‘Film Is Dead. Long Live Film’: Contemporary Film Manifestos and Stylistic Matters,” Film Style, ed. Enrico Biasin, Giulio Bursi and Leonardo Quaresima. Udine : Forum, 2007. 147-159.
  • “Introduction to an Attractive Concept.” The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded. Ed. Wanda Strauven. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2006. 11-27.
  • “From ‘Primitive Cinema’ to ‘Marvelous’.” The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded. Ed. Wanda Strauven. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2006. 105-120.
  • “ Vita futurista e Velocità: due film fantasma di F. T. Marinetti.” Il racconto del film / Narrating the film. Novelizzazione: dal catalogo al trailer / Novelization: From the Cata logue to the Trailer. Ed. Alice Autelitano and Valentina Re. Udine: Forum, 2006. 371-379.
  • “Dall’ ‘immaginazione senza fili’ al ‘meraviglioso futurista’: La poetica marinettiana come teoria indiretta, intuitiva, del cinema.” Cinema Video Internet. Tecnologie e avanguardia in Italia dal Futurismo alla Net.art. Ed.Cosetta G. Saba. Bologna: CLUEB, 2006. 89-111.
  • “Touch, Don’t Look.” In: Alice Autelitano, Veronica Innocenti & Valentina Re (eds.), The Five Senses of Cinema. Udine: Forum editrice, 2005. 283-291.
  • “Re-disciplining the Audience: Godard’s Rube-Carabinier.” In: Marijke de Valck & Malte Hagener (eds.), Cinephilia: Movies, Love and Memory. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2005. 125-133.
  • “A Fourth Dimension in Marinetti’s Writing.” In: Martin Heusser et al. (eds.), On Verbal / Visual Representation. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2005. 207-217.
  • “La poétique du montage selon Marinetti.” In: Nathalie Roelens & Yves Jeanneret (eds.), L’imaginaire de l’écran / Screen Imaginary, Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 2004. 47-62.
  • (with Nathalie Roelens) “Introduction. Du prothétique à l’orthopédique.” In: Nathalie Roelens & Wanda Strauven (eds.), Homo orthopedicus. Le corps et ses prothèses à l’époque (post)moderniste. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2001. 7-20.
  • “Continuity / discontinuity: Futurist art between chronophotography and cinematography.” In: Nathalie Roelens & Wanda Strauven (eds.), Homo orthopedicus. Le corps et ses prothèses à l’époque (post)moderniste. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2001. 263-276.
  • “Notes sur le ‘grand talent futuriste’ d’Eisenstein.” In: Dominique Chateau, François Jost & Martin Lefebvre (eds.), Eisenstein: l’ancien et le nouveau. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2001. 45-65.
  • “L'art de Georges Méliès et le futurisme italien.” In Georges Méliès: l'illusionniste fin de siècle? Eds. Jacques Malthête & Michel Marie. Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1997. 331-355.

Journal Issues

  • (ed.) (with Tarja Laine) Synaesthesia, special issue of New Review of Film and Television Studies 7.3 (September 2009).
  • (ed.) (with Ivo Blom) Cinema in Context, special issue of Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis 9.2 (December 2006).

Journal Articles (selection)

  • "Dilema pozorovatele: Dotýkat se, či nedotýkat?" Iluminace: Casopis pro Teorii, Historii a Estetiku Filmu  23.2 (2011): 69-82.
  • (with Tarja Laine) "The Synaesthetic Turn." New Review of Film and Television Studies 7.3 (September 2009): 249-255.
  • "Futurist Images For Your Ear: Or, How to Listen to Visual Poetry, Painting, and Silent Cinema." New Review of Film and Television Studies 7.3 (September 2009): 275-292.
  • (with Ivo Blom) “Cinema in Context: het einde van filmstudies?” Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis 9.2 (December 2006): 4-14.
  • “Looking up, looking down: Huldiging van 100 jaarvliegkunst tijdens het 22e Pordenone Silent Film Festival, Sacile, 11-18 oktober 2003." Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis 7.1 (June 2004): 136-140.
  • "The Meaning of the Music-Hall: From the Italian Futurism to the Soviet Avant-garde." Cinema & Cie 4 (Spring 2004): 117-134.
  • "Futuristische geluiden: vloekende kleuren + chromatische akkoorden + lawaaikunst + zang tumb tumb + gefilmde analogieën." Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis 6.2 (December 2003): 10-33.
  • "Le mécanoïde et l’androïde: deux faces du mythe futuriste dans le cinéma d’avant-gardedes années vingt." CiNéMAS 12.3 (Spring 2002): 33-51.
  • "I sei personaggi entrano in scena: un’analisi in chiave cinematografica delle loro varie apparizioni." Narrativa 11 (February 1997): 179-191.
  • "Al di là del romanzo: la cine-narrativa di Antonioni." Narrativa 10 (September 1996): 245-265.
  • "Analogia ed altri motivi futuristi nel cinema d’avanguardia." Narrativa 9 (February 1996): 87-111.