Mette Hjort
Biographic Data
| ID | 491594 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mette Hjort |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mette |
| FAMILY NAME | Hjort |
| SIGNATURE | HJORT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9630-3609 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sketching the contours of a cinema of care
Current interest in care and caring is linked to the emergence of catastrophic risks arising from humanity’s acquisition, in the course of the last century, of the ability to destroy itself. The claim is that care and caring now function as hypergoods or moral sources, as frameworks enabling us to orient ourselves in moral space, to define our identities, and to evaluate the relative worth of different courses of action. In this sense ‘care’ and …
The caring university
While concepts of care and caring have a long history, the terms have become especially prominent in recent times. Care and caring, I argue, have emerged as what philosopher Charles Taylor calls ‘moral sources,’ uber-concepts that allow for moral deliberation, the prioritization of preferences, and our identity formation as persons. Linking the current salience of care to a growing awareness of the dynamics of a crisis- and catastrophe-ridden wor…
Cognition, Stigma, and Inclusivity Roundtable
For this Roundtable, we asked several leading scholars working on issues of social justice and cognition in film and media studies for a brief response to the prompt: “Explain one current theory, approach, or research finding that you think is particularly important in addressing stigma and inclusivity in screen media.” Participants drew from their own current work and insights, and they pointed to new strands of inquiry that they found exciting.…
Valuing & Defending the Arts in Hong Kong
Focusing on a period of just over two decades (1997-2023), this essay charts how the most salient approaches to valuing and defending the arts in Hong Kong reflect the changing political circumstances of the city. I select two approaches for close analysis. Emphasizing the private and public value of the arts, the first approach reflects efforts to reinvent Hong Kong in the wake of the handover to the People's Republic of China in 1997. Influence…
The Necessity of Sustainable Filmmaking
The epiphanic moments of Covid-19
Focusing on the small nation state of Denmark, this article considers the implications of responses to COVID-19 for the dynamics of multiple belonging involving Western and Asian nations. The claim is that COVID-19’s cultural dimensions include the phenomenon of weakened attachments to an originary homeland on the part, for example, of non-resident Danes and a concomitant strengthening of commitments to adopted homelands in Asia, such as Hong Kon…
Locating the subject of Redd
REDD+ is a forest conservation and carbon trading scheme seeking to incentivise a reduction in emissions through payments. This article draws on Foucault's governmentality concept and Dean's analytics of government framework to analyse the REDD+ negotiations under the UNFCCC. It argues that negotiators perceived forest inhabitants as malleable subjects whose conduct can and should be "improved" through disciplinary techniques instantiated in fore…
Volunteering and Policy Makers
What motivates a political party to develop overseas development volunteering projects for members? How do such activities affect individual volunteers and the party, more broadly? To address these questions, this paper analyses the UK Conservative Party’s international development volunteering projects. Our data comprise 38 interviews with former volunteers and participant observation of one volunteering project in Rwanda in 2017 by one author. …
African Cinema and Human Rights
Bringing theory and practice together, African Cinema and Human Rights argues that moving images have a significant role to play in advancing the causes of justice and fairness. The contributors to this volume identify three key ways in which film can achieve these goals: documenting human rights abuses and thereby supporting the claims of victims and goals of truth and reconciliation within larger communities; legitimating, and consequently soli…
Who should be governed to reduce deforestation and how? Multiple governmentalities at the Redd+ negotiations
Drawing on recent multiple governmentality literature, this article analyses the REDD+ negotiations to interrogate who the scheme is likely to govern and how. Two arguments are advanced. First, REDD+ is likely to target local forest users at the expense of both corporate and international drivers of deforestation. This will reduce the effectiveness of the scheme and invite leakage issues. In elucidating the ultimately rejected strategies for addr…
A missing link in understanding Party policy change? Conservative Party international volunteering projects and UK development policy (2007–2017)
This article analyses the rationale for and impacts of Conservative Party overseas volunteering projects from 2007 to 2017. Using interview data and participant observation, we uncover aims of project founders and explore impacts of volunteering on Party members and policy. We make three substantial contributions. The first focuses on the survival of Conservative Party modernisation strategies launched under David Cameron. Support for development…
Guilt-based filmmaking
To date consideration of negative emotions in the context of cinema has been largely limited to the issue of why spectators would be drawn to films that target psychological responses such as fear and disgust. The aim here is to consider the phenomenon of negative emotion as a motivating factor in the context of, not spectatorship, but film production. The focus is on documentary filmmaking with a strong ethnographic dimension, the camera being u…
Renewing Film's Public Emphasis
A review of Patricia White Women's Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms (Duke University Press, 2015
The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas
Practice-oriented film education aimed at children has been hailed for various reasons: at a personal level, as a means of providing tools for self-expression, for developing creativity and communication skills. And at a social level, it is argued that children must now become competent producers, in addition to critical consumers, of audiovisual content so they can take part in the global public sphere that is arguably emerging. This chapter dis…
Small Nation, Global Cinema
The cinema of small nations
The Cinema of Small Nations is the first major analysis of small national cinemas, comprising 12 case studies of small national--and sub national--cinemas from around the world, including Ireland, Denmark, Iceland, Scotland, Bulgaria, Tunisia, Burkina Faso, Cuba, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and New Zealand. Written by an array of distinguished and emerging scholars, the case studies provide detailed analyses of the particular cinema in question…
Tunisia Florence Martin
To understand Tunisian cinema means to interrogate the history of its complex relationship with the state, the genesis of its filmic discourse, and its relationship with its audience at home and abroad. Taking feature films as case studies, this chapter focuses on the history of Tunisian film national and transnational production as well as the history of its reception at home and abroad since independence. It also discusses the more recent diffi…
Burkina Faso
This chapter presents the historical background for filmmaking in the West African state of Burkina Faso since independence from France in 1960. Although one of the world's poorest countries, Burkina Faso is often referred to as “Africa's Hollywood” because of a string of governmental initiatives to sustain not only Burkinabè but also African cinema at large – such as the film festival FESPACO (Festival Panafricain du Cinéma de Ouagadougou). Almo…
Cinema and Nation
Introduction 1. The Sociology of Nationalism 2. The Concept of National Cinema 3. Film Policy, Nationalism, and the State 4. The Production of National Images 5. The Reception of National Images
Jens Hougaard
Ludvig Holberg. The Playwright and his Age up to 1730
Philosophy in an Age of Pluralism
This is the first comprehensive evaluation of Charles Taylor's work and a major contribution to leading questions in philosophy and the human sciences as they face an increasingly pluralistic age. Charles Taylor is one of the most influential contemporary moral and political philosophers: in an era of specialisation he is one of the few thinkers who has developed a comprehensive philosophy which speaks to the conditions of the modern world in a w…
New Historicism<<
Interview med Stephen Greenblatt
La parole mangee et autres essais theologico-politiques
The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas
Practice-oriented film education aimed at children has been hailed for various reasons: at a personal level, as a means of providing tools for self-expression, for developing creativity and communication skills. And at a social level, it is argued that children must now become competent producers, in addition to critical consumers, of audiovisual content so they can take part in the global public sphere that is arguably emerging. This chapter dis…
Valuing & Defending the Arts in Hong Kong
Focusing on a period of just over two decades (1997-2023), this essay charts how the most salient approaches to valuing and defending the arts in Hong Kong reflect the changing political circumstances of the city. I select two approaches for close analysis. Emphasizing the private and public value of the arts, the first approach reflects efforts to reinvent Hong Kong in the wake of the handover to the People's Republic of China in 1997. Influence…
Who should be governed to reduce deforestation and how? Multiple governmentalities at the Redd+ negotiations
Drawing on recent multiple governmentality literature, this article analyses the REDD+ negotiations to interrogate who the scheme is likely to govern and how. Two arguments are advanced. First, REDD+ is likely to target local forest users at the expense of both corporate and international drivers of deforestation. This will reduce the effectiveness of the scheme and invite leakage issues. In elucidating the ultimately rejected strategies for addr…
La parole mangee et autres essais theologico-politiques
New Historicism<<
Interview med Stephen Greenblatt
Philosophy in an Age of Pluralism
This is the first comprehensive evaluation of Charles Taylor's work and a major contribution to leading questions in philosophy and the human sciences as they face an increasingly pluralistic age. Charles Taylor is one of the most influential contemporary moral and political philosophers: in an era of specialisation he is one of the few thinkers who has developed a comprehensive philosophy which speaks to the conditions of the modern world in a w…
Jens Hougaard
Ludvig Holberg. The Playwright and his Age up to 1730
Cinema and Nation
Introduction 1. The Sociology of Nationalism 2. The Concept of National Cinema 3. Film Policy, Nationalism, and the State 4. The Production of National Images 5. The Reception of National Images
The cinema of small nations
The Cinema of Small Nations is the first major analysis of small national cinemas, comprising 12 case studies of small national--and sub national--cinemas from around the world, including Ireland, Denmark, Iceland, Scotland, Bulgaria, Tunisia, Burkina Faso, Cuba, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and New Zealand. Written by an array of distinguished and emerging scholars, the case studies provide detailed analyses of the particular cinema in question…
Tunisia Florence Martin
To understand Tunisian cinema means to interrogate the history of its complex relationship with the state, the genesis of its filmic discourse, and its relationship with its audience at home and abroad. Taking feature films as case studies, this chapter focuses on the history of Tunisian film national and transnational production as well as the history of its reception at home and abroad since independence. It also discusses the more recent diffi…
Burkina Faso
This chapter presents the historical background for filmmaking in the West African state of Burkina Faso since independence from France in 1960. Although one of the world's poorest countries, Burkina Faso is often referred to as “Africa's Hollywood” because of a string of governmental initiatives to sustain not only Burkinabè but also African cinema at large – such as the film festival FESPACO (Festival Panafricain du Cinéma de Ouagadougou). Almo…
Small Nation, Global Cinema
The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas
Practice-oriented film education aimed at children has been hailed for various reasons: at a personal level, as a means of providing tools for self-expression, for developing creativity and communication skills. And at a social level, it is argued that children must now become competent producers, in addition to critical consumers, of audiovisual content so they can take part in the global public sphere that is arguably emerging. This chapter dis…
Renewing Film's Public Emphasis
A review of Patricia White Women's Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms (Duke University Press, 2015
Guilt-based filmmaking
To date consideration of negative emotions in the context of cinema has been largely limited to the issue of why spectators would be drawn to films that target psychological responses such as fear and disgust. The aim here is to consider the phenomenon of negative emotion as a motivating factor in the context of, not spectatorship, but film production. The focus is on documentary filmmaking with a strong ethnographic dimension, the camera being u…
African Cinema and Human Rights
Bringing theory and practice together, African Cinema and Human Rights argues that moving images have a significant role to play in advancing the causes of justice and fairness. The contributors to this volume identify three key ways in which film can achieve these goals: documenting human rights abuses and thereby supporting the claims of victims and goals of truth and reconciliation within larger communities; legitimating, and consequently soli…
Who should be governed to reduce deforestation and how? Multiple governmentalities at the Redd+ negotiations
Drawing on recent multiple governmentality literature, this article analyses the REDD+ negotiations to interrogate who the scheme is likely to govern and how. Two arguments are advanced. First, REDD+ is likely to target local forest users at the expense of both corporate and international drivers of deforestation. This will reduce the effectiveness of the scheme and invite leakage issues. In elucidating the ultimately rejected strategies for addr…
A missing link in understanding Party policy change? Conservative Party international volunteering projects and UK development policy (2007–2017)
This article analyses the rationale for and impacts of Conservative Party overseas volunteering projects from 2007 to 2017. Using interview data and participant observation, we uncover aims of project founders and explore impacts of volunteering on Party members and policy. We make three substantial contributions. The first focuses on the survival of Conservative Party modernisation strategies launched under David Cameron. Support for development…
Volunteering and Policy Makers
What motivates a political party to develop overseas development volunteering projects for members? How do such activities affect individual volunteers and the party, more broadly? To address these questions, this paper analyses the UK Conservative Party’s international development volunteering projects. Our data comprise 38 interviews with former volunteers and participant observation of one volunteering project in Rwanda in 2017 by one author. …
The epiphanic moments of Covid-19
Focusing on the small nation state of Denmark, this article considers the implications of responses to COVID-19 for the dynamics of multiple belonging involving Western and Asian nations. The claim is that COVID-19’s cultural dimensions include the phenomenon of weakened attachments to an originary homeland on the part, for example, of non-resident Danes and a concomitant strengthening of commitments to adopted homelands in Asia, such as Hong Kon…
Locating the subject of Redd
REDD+ is a forest conservation and carbon trading scheme seeking to incentivise a reduction in emissions through payments. This article draws on Foucault's governmentality concept and Dean's analytics of government framework to analyse the REDD+ negotiations under the UNFCCC. It argues that negotiators perceived forest inhabitants as malleable subjects whose conduct can and should be "improved" through disciplinary techniques instantiated in fore…
The Necessity of Sustainable Filmmaking
Cognition, Stigma, and Inclusivity Roundtable
For this Roundtable, we asked several leading scholars working on issues of social justice and cognition in film and media studies for a brief response to the prompt: “Explain one current theory, approach, or research finding that you think is particularly important in addressing stigma and inclusivity in screen media.” Participants drew from their own current work and insights, and they pointed to new strands of inquiry that they found exciting.…
Valuing & Defending the Arts in Hong Kong
Focusing on a period of just over two decades (1997-2023), this essay charts how the most salient approaches to valuing and defending the arts in Hong Kong reflect the changing political circumstances of the city. I select two approaches for close analysis. Emphasizing the private and public value of the arts, the first approach reflects efforts to reinvent Hong Kong in the wake of the handover to the People's Republic of China in 1997. Influence…
The caring university
While concepts of care and caring have a long history, the terms have become especially prominent in recent times. Care and caring, I argue, have emerged as what philosopher Charles Taylor calls ‘moral sources,’ uber-concepts that allow for moral deliberation, the prioritization of preferences, and our identity formation as persons. Linking the current salience of care to a growing awareness of the dynamics of a crisis- and catastrophe-ridden wor…
Sketching the contours of a cinema of care
Current interest in care and caring is linked to the emergence of catastrophic risks arising from humanity’s acquisition, in the course of the last century, of the ability to destroy itself. The claim is that care and caring now function as hypergoods or moral sources, as frameworks enabling us to orient ourselves in moral space, to define our identities, and to evaluate the relative worth of different courses of action. In this sense ‘care’ and …
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Movie theater (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (8 works) · History (8 works) · Art history (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · African history and culture studies (6 works) · Art (5 works)