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Brunow, Dagmar, Prof. Dr.ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0003-0068-8063
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Biography [eng]

I am professor of film studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden, where I am also part of the Linnaeus University Center for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS).

My research centres on archives and audiovisual heritage, transmediation, cultural memory, documentary filmmaking as well as feminist and queer experimental filmmaking and video practice.

Biography [swe]

Jag är professor i filmvetenskap vid LNU. 2016 anställdes jag som lektor, 2019 blev jag utnämnd till docent. Mina forskningsintressen är: film och kulturellt minne, filmarkiv och kulturarv, digitalisering av filmarvet, dokumentär- och essäfilm, videokollektiv och deras historia, experimentfilm, queerfilm och feministiskt filmskapande.

Vid LNU tillhör jag spetsforskningsgruppen LNUC Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) och ingår i ledningsgruppen.

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Brunow, D. (2025). Elin Wägner. New York: Columbia University Libraries
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Elin Wägner
2025 (English)Other (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Elin Wägner was a Swedish journalist and writer as well as a suffragette, a feminist, an advocator for peace, and an early eco-critic. She was also one of the few screenwriters who managed to make the transition from silent to sound film. While she is a canonized figure in Swedish literary history, her name remains largely absent from film history, even though she worked in the Swedish film industry for decades. Her film work is glossed over by her biographers although she collaborated with prominent filmmakers, including Anna Hofman-Uddgren who was long regarded as Sweden’s first female director before Ebba Lindkvist got that credit. Just like Selma Lagerlöf, Wägner showed an early interest in the new medium of film, and her work in the film industry provided her with additional income.

Place, publisher, year, pages
New York: Columbia University Libraries, 2025
Keywords
Elin Wägner, filmhistoria, Women Film Pioneers, stumfilm, stumfilmskvinnor
National Category
Film Studies
Research subject
Humanities, Film Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-143243 (URN)10.7916/pp20-s355 (DOI)
Projects
Elin Wägner och filmen
Note

Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era. Editors Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall’Asta.

Citation: Brunow, Dagmar. "Elin Wägner." In Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall’Asta, eds. Women Film Pioneers Project. New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries, 2025.  <https://doi.org/10.7916/pp20-s355>

Available from: 2025-12-01 Created: 2025-12-01 Last updated: 2026-01-21Bibliographically approved
Brunow, D. (2025). Foreword. Informa UK Limited
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Foreword
2025 (English)Other (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, pages
Informa UK Limited, 2025. p. 1
National Category
Languages and Literature Other Humanities
Research subject
Humanities, Comparative Literature Education
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-140682 (URN)9781032766850 (ISBN)9781003486541 (ISBN)
Note

Foreword to Future Directions in Intermediality and Multimodality. Dialogues Inspired by the Work of Lars Elleström. Ed by Signe Kjaer Jensen & Matilda Davidsson

Available from: 2025-07-07 Created: 2025-07-07 Last updated: 2025-08-06Bibliographically approved
Brunow, D. (2025). Hämnd, skam och stolthet: Dagmar Brunow skriver om Bangs förord till Pennskaftet av Elin Wägner i utgåvan 1969. Bergsluft. Medlemsblad för Elin Wägner-sällskapet (107), 3-3
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Hämnd, skam och stolthet: Dagmar Brunow skriver om Bangs förord till Pennskaftet av Elin Wägner i utgåvan 1969
2025 (Swedish)In: Bergsluft. Medlemsblad för Elin Wägner-sällskapet, ISSN 1103-4165, no 107, p. 3-3Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Abstract [sv]

Bang själv kallar oblygt sitt förord för ”enbiografisk bredvidläsning” till Pennskaftet och ”kan läsas som det starkaste kapitlet – men skrivet med osynligt bläck.”

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Växjö: Elin Wägner-sällskapet, 2025
Keywords
Elin Wägner; Pennskaftet; förord; Barbro Alving; Bang
National Category
Languages and Literature
Research subject
Humanities, Comparative literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-143285 (URN)
Projects
Elin Wägner och filmen
Available from: 2025-12-04 Created: 2025-12-04 Last updated: 2025-12-16Bibliographically approved
Brunow, D. (2025). Kvirjenje arhiva. Ekran. Revija za film in televizijo, 62, 76-85
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Kvirjenje arhiva
2025 (Slovenian)In: Ekran. Revija za film in televizijo, Vol. 62, p. 76-85Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Ljubjana: , 2025
Keywords
Film, heritage, archives, audiovisual archives, queer, historiography
National Category
Film Studies
Research subject
Humanities, Film Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-138187 (URN)
Available from: 2025-04-28 Created: 2025-04-28 Last updated: 2025-04-30Bibliographically approved
Brunow, D. (2025). Queer Memories from Closet to Cloud: Rethinking Archival Care for Film and Video. Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe (21)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Queer Memories from Closet to Cloud: Rethinking Archival Care for Film and Video
2025 (English)In: Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe, ISSN 2365-7758, no 21Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Archives are not neutral repositories but epistemic infrastructures through which history, memory, and belonging are produced. Yet queer lives remain unevenly recognised within film and video collections. This article focuses on the ethical and political implications of digitising and circulating queer audiovisual heritage, particularly under European copyright regimes and in the context of artificial intelligence and generative AI trained on cultural heritage materials. Digitisation and online visibility can be both enabling and harmful. The article demonstrates how archival decisions around access, metadata, and description shape recognition, legibility, and vulnerability. Practices such as tagging, the use of metadata, and retrodigitalisation raise questions about consent, retrospective exposure, and the temporal disjunctions produced when past materials circulate in contemporary digital contexts. We therefore need to understand archival workflows as sites where care, power, and responsibility are negotiated.

The article argues for an ethics of care for queer audiovisual heritage on digital platforms. Such an approach shifts attention away from archival objects towards relational processes, emphasising accountability to donors, communities, and future users. The article identifies micro archives as key sites of care-based knowledge. Occasionally community-driven and always specialised, these archives have developed practices attuned to trust, situated ethics, and the management of vulnerability. At the same time, the growing collaboration between micro-archives and national heritage institutions introduces new tensions around the translation of care into larger institutional frameworks. For its examples, the article draws on long-term collaborations with the Swedish National Film Archives, the Swedish Archive for Queer Moving Images, bildwechsel in Hamburg, and the Lesbian Home Movie Project in Maine. It is structured in three parts: an analysis of queer heritage recognition in Swedish national film archives, case studies of care practices in micro archives, and a discussion of what is gained and lost when care-driven archival practices move across institutional scales.

Abstract [de]

Archive sind keine neutralen Orte, an denen Materialien einfach aufbewahrt werden, sondern epistemische Infrastrukturen: Sie prägen aktiv, wie Geschichte erzählt wird, wie kulturelles Gedächtnis entsteht und wer daran teilhaben kann. Die Anerkennung queerer Lebensentwürfe und Erfahrungen kommt allerdings bei den meisten Archiven zu kurz. Dieser Artikel untersucht die Archivierung und Zugangsgestaltung von Film und Video in Hinblick auf queeres kulturelles Gedächtnis. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die ethischen und politischen Fragen, die sich aus der Digitalisierung und Verbreitung audiovisuellen Kulturerbes ergeben, insbesondere vor dem Hintergrund europäischer Urheberrechtsregelungen sowie des Einsatzes von künstlicher Intelligenz und generativer KI, die auch mit digitalisiertem Kulturerbe trainiert wird. Zwar führt die Anerkennung queerer Geschichte in Archiven und Museen häufig zu einer politisch gewünschten Sichtbarkeit. Diese Sichtbarkeit birgt jedoch wegen der Vulnerabilität queerer Personen Ambivalenzen (Schaffer). Deshalb ist es notwendig, Archiventscheidungen kritisch zu reflektieren, so etwa im Hinblick auf Zugangsregelungen, Metadaten und Beschreibungen. Auch Retrodigitalisierung sowie der Einsatz von Metadaten und Tags bei der Veröffentlichung historischer und zeitgeschichtlicher Materialien auf digitalen Plattformen werfen Fragen nach der ethischen Verantwortung von Archivar_innen auf.

Der Artikel plädiert für eine Ethik der Fürsorge bei der Gestaltung des digtialen Zugangs zu queerem audiovisuellen Erbe. Ein solcher Ansatz verschiebt den Fokus weg von einzelnen Archivobjekten hin zu Beziehungen und Prozessen und betont die Verantwortung von Archivar_innen gegenüber Communities und zukünftigen Nutzer_innen. Besonders in sogenannten Mikroarchiven hat sich wichtiges Wissen über eine solche Care-Ethik entwickelt. Diese Archive arbeiten mit Praktiken, die auf Vertrauen, Fürsorge und einem Bewusstsein für Vulnerabilität beruhen. Gleichzeitig besteht die Gefahr, dass dieses Wissen verloren geht, wenn Mikroarchive zunehmend mit großen nationalen Kultureinrichtungen zusammenarbeiten. Der Artikel stützt sich auf Forschung aus langjährigen Kooperationen mit dem Schwedischen Nationalen Filmarchiv (SFI), dem Swedish Archive for Queer Moving Images (SAQMI), bildwechsel in Hamburg sowie dem Lesbian Home Movie Project in Maine (USA). Er gliedert sich in drei Teile: Zunächst wird die Anerkennung queeren Filmerbes in Schweden analysiert, anschließend folgen Fallstudien zu Care-Praktiken in Mikroarchiven, bevor abschließend die Chancen und Risiken institutioneller Zusammenarbeit diskutiert werden

Keywords
archive, curation, digitisation, audiovisual heritage, care, ethics, AI, metadata, queer, LGBT+, Lesbian Home Project, bildwechsel, Swedish Archive for Queer Moving Images, Swedish Film Institute
National Category
Film Studies
Research subject
Humanities, Film Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-144036 (URN)10.17892/app.2025.00021.415 (DOI)
Funder
Swedish Research Council
Available from: 2026-01-15 Created: 2026-01-15 Last updated: 2026-01-21Bibliographically approved
Brunow, D. (2024). Archiving queer audiovisual heritage: collaborating with care. In: : . Paper presented at The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA), 55th annual IASA conference at the La Nau Cultural Center of the University of Valencia, Spain, 23-26 September 2024.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Archiving queer audiovisual heritage: collaborating with care
2024 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Contribution to a panel on global queer archiving.

Keywords
Film - heritage - archives - audiovisual archives - queer filmmaking - historiography - digital humanities
National Category
Studies on Film
Research subject
Humanities, Film Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-133303 (URN)
Conference
The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA), 55th annual IASA conference at the La Nau Cultural Center of the University of Valencia, Spain, 23-26 September 2024
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2577
Available from: 2024-11-12 Created: 2024-11-12 Last updated: 2025-09-23Bibliographically approved
Brunow, D. (2024). Att studera Astrid Lindgrens filmmanus: På rymmen med Pippi Långstrump. In: Helene Ehriander; Eva Söderberg (Ed.), Mer om Astrid Lindgren: Författaren, förläggaren och filmskaparen (pp. 129-155). Makadam Förlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Att studera Astrid Lindgrens filmmanus: På rymmen med Pippi Långstrump
2024 (Swedish)In: Mer om Astrid Lindgren: Författaren, förläggaren och filmskaparen / [ed] Helene Ehriander; Eva Söderberg, Makadam Förlag, 2024, p. 129-155Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Makadam Förlag, 2024
Series
Svenska barnboksinstitutets skriftserie ; 172
Keywords
Astrid Lindgren, filmmanus, intermediala studier, Pippi Långstrump
National Category
Humanities and the Arts General Literature Studies Studies on Film
Research subject
Humanities, Film Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-136423 (URN)9789170614736 (ISBN)
Available from: 2025-02-11 Created: 2025-02-11 Last updated: 2025-09-23Bibliographically approved
Brunow, D. & Müller, K. (2024). Digitale Methoden und Ambivalenzen von Un_Sichtbarkeit. Frauen und Film (72), 123-127
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Digitale Methoden und Ambivalenzen von Un_Sichtbarkeit
2024 (German)In: Frauen und Film, ISSN 03437736, no 72, p. 123-127Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Berlin: AvivA Verlag, 2024
Keywords
Film, heritage, archives, audiovisual archives, feminist filmmaking, historiography, digital humanities, Filmerbe, feministisch, Frauen, Filmgeschichte, Filmhistoriographie, Digital Humanities, filmarv, filmhistoria, filmbransch, kvinnor, postkolonial, digital humanities, digitalisering
National Category
Studies on Film
Research subject
Humanities, Film Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-132990 (URN)
Funder
Swedish Research Council
Available from: 2024-10-15 Created: 2024-10-15 Last updated: 2025-09-23Bibliographically approved
Brunow, D. & Müller, K. (2024). Editorial. Frauen und Film (72), 5-6
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Editorial
2024 (German)In: Frauen und Film, ISSN 03437736, no 72, p. 5-6Article in journal, Editorial material (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Berlin: , 2024
Keywords
Film, heritage, archives, audiovisual archives, feminist filmmaking, historiography, digital humanities, Filmerbe, feministisch, Frauen, Filmgeschichte, Filmhistoriographie, Digital Humanities, filmarv, filmhistoria, filmbransch, kvinnor, postkolonial, digital humanities, digitalisering
National Category
Studies on Film
Research subject
Humanities, Film Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-133003 (URN)
Available from: 2024-10-15 Created: 2024-10-15 Last updated: 2025-09-23Bibliographically approved
Brunow, D. (2024). Feministisches Archivieren als Care-Arbeit: bildwechsel.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Feministisches Archivieren als Care-Arbeit: bildwechsel
2024 (German)Other (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

Artikeln undersöker vilka former av "care-in-practice" vi kan hitta i mindre arkivprojekt som det feministiska konstnärsprojektet bildwechsel i Hamburg. Detta 'care'-arbete riskerar att gå förlorat när samlingar överförs från mindre arkiv till stora kulturarvsinstitutioner.

Keywords
bildwechsel, archive, care, cultural heritage, feminist art, bildwechsel, arkiv, care, kulturarv, feministisk konst
National Category
Visual Arts Studies on Film
Research subject
Humanities, Art science; Humanities, Film Studies; Humanities, Visual Culture
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-128094 (URN)
Funder
Swedish Research Council
Available from: 2024-03-03 Created: 2024-03-03 Last updated: 2025-09-23Bibliographically approved
Projects
The Lost Heritage: Improving Collaborations between Digital Film Archives [2020-02250_VR]; Linnaeus University; Publications
Brunow, D. (2025). Audiovisual Heritage at Risk?: Queer Perspectives on Digital Film Archival Collections. In: Presented at Autumn Film School 2025: Against Forgetting. Queer Film and Memory, Ljubljana, 13-19 October, 2025: . Paper presented at Autumn Film School, Ljubljana, Slovenia,13-19 October, 2025. Brunow, D. (2025). Queer Memories from Closet to Cloud: Rethinking Archival Care for Film and Video. Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe (21)Brunow, D. (2024). Archiving queer audiovisual heritage: collaborating with care. In: : . Paper presented at The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA), 55th annual IASA conference at the La Nau Cultural Center of the University of Valencia, Spain, 23-26 September 2024. Brunow, D. & Müller, K. (2024). Digitale Methoden und Ambivalenzen von Un_Sichtbarkeit. Frauen und Film (72), 123-127Brunow, D. & Müller, K. (2024). Editorial. Frauen und Film (72), 5-6Brunow, D. (2024). Feministisches Archivieren als Care-Arbeit: bildwechsel. Brunow, D. (2024). Flickan i frack – en queer klassiker. Svensk filmdatabasBrunow, D. & Müller, K. (Eds.). (2024). Frauen und Film, Heft 72: Archive. Berlin: Aviva VerlagBrunow, D. (2024). Lost in Collaboration?: Archival Ethics of Care.. In: : . Paper presented at The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA), 55th annual IASA conference from at the La Nau Cultural Center of the University of Valencia, Spain, 23-26 September, 2024. Brunow, D. (2024). Neben der Kamera: Zsóka Nestler. Wien
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