In my research, I am currently working with two projects.

The first, "Film music experience and experimental methods", explores the possibilites of using psychophysiological and neuroscientific empirical methods to study spectators' experience of audiovisual narrative, above all in fiction films. For example, eye-tracking measurements are employed to see whether, and in which ways, attention changes when different sound environments accompany the same scenes, or how the spectator's experience is changing due to shifting interactions between film and music.

The second is called "Anita Ekberg and the construction of a contested celebrity". Here I look into how Anita Ekberg was constructed as a star in Hollywood in the 1950s, and how she came to embody ideas about the Swedish sex symbol. In this celebrity study I compare the reception and writings about Ekberg in Swedish and American press, and in future work I will also study Ekberg's time in Italy.

Besides I continue with my project on transnational film relations between USA and Sweden in which I among other things explore how the Swedish migration and migrants to USA is  pictured in both Swedish and American film cultures, and the use of films in the Swedish-American communities to shape memories about Sweden.

Books (5)

• Wallengren, A.-K. (2014). Welcome Home Mr Swanson : Swedish Emigrants and Swedishness on Film. Nordic Academic Press.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2013). Välkommen hem Mr Swanson : svenska emigranter och svenskhet på film. Nordic Academic Press.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2005). UR-bilder. Utbildningsprogram som tv-genre. Skrifter om utbildningsprogrammens historia, nr 11. Stiftelsen Etermedierna i Sverige.
• Wallengren, A.-K. & Wadensjö, C. (2001). Om tilltal, bildspråk och samhällssyn i utbildningsprogrammen (Samhällsbyggarnas tv-berättande. Estetik och ideologi i utbildningsprogram för televisionen). Stiftelsen Etermedierna i Sverige.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (1998). En afton på Röda Kvarn. Svensk stumfilm som musikdrama. Lund University Press. Dissertation.
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Editorships (5)

• Donnelly, K. J. & Wallengren, A.-K. (2016). (Eds.) Today's Sounds for Yesterday's Films : Making Music for Silent Cinema. Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Wallengren, A.-K. & Donnelly, K. J. (2015). (Eds.) Music and the Moving Image : Special issue, Psychology of Film Music. Music and the Moving Image, 8. University of Illinois Press.
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• Hedling, E. & Wallengren, A.-K. (2014). (Eds.) Den nya svenska filmen : kultur, kriminalitet & kakofoni. Bokförlaget Atlantis.
• Hedling, E. & Wallengren, A.-K. (2006). (Eds.) Solskenslandet : svensk film på 2000-talet. Bokförlaget Atlantis.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2002). (Ed.) Filmhäftet. Filmhäftet, 30. Filmhäftet.

Articles (7)

• Wallengren, A.-K. (2015). Tysk film efter muren. En tudelad historia. Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 2015/3, 343-362. Fahlbeckska stiftelsen.
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• Wallengren, A.-K. & Donnelly, K. J. (2015). Introductory Notes by the Guest Editors. Music and the Moving Image, 8, 3-4. University of Illinois Press.
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• Wallengren, A.-K. & Donnelly, K. J. (2015). Introductory Notes by the Guest Editors. Psychology of Film Music, special issue of Music and the Moving Image, 8, 3-4. University of Illinois Press.
• Wallengren, A.-K. & Strukelj, A. (2015). Film Music and Visual Attention : A Pilot Experiment using Eye-Tracking. Music and the Moving Image, 8, 69-80. University of Illinois Press.
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• Wallengren, A.-K. (2008). Hollywood in Sweden: Cinematic References Imagining America. Film International, 6, 42-50. Intellect Ltd..
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2005). Music in Children's Films - Empathy or Socialization?. Film International, 13, 40-50. Intellect Ltd..
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2002). När själen spiller över. Filmhäftet, 122, 20-25. Filmhäftet.

Book chapters (24)

• Wallengren, A.-K. (submitted). 'A Trip to Sweden for 50 cents' : Screenings of Swedish Films in the Swedish-American Community in Seattle until 1950. Nordic Immigration in the Pacific Northwest 2016 [Preliminary title].
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2019). Celebrated, Contested, Criticized : Anita Ekberg, a Swedish Sex Goddess in Hollywood. In Westerstahl Stenport, A. & Westerstahl Stenport, A. L. (Eds.) Traditions in World Cinema, Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere (pp. 224-237). Edinburgh University Press.
• Wallengren, A.-K. & Strukelj, A. (2018). Into the Film with Music : Measuring Eyeblinks to Explore the Role of Film Music in Emotional Arousal and Narrative Transportation. In Dwyer, T., Perkins, C., Redmond, S. & Sita, J. (Eds.) Seeing into Screens: Eye Tracking and the Moving Image (pp. 65-85). Bloomsbury Academic.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2016). To be in Dialogue with the Film : With Neil Brand and Lillian Henley at the Masterclasses at Pordenone Silent Film Festival. In Donnelly, K. J. & Wallengren, A.-K. (Eds.) Today's Sounds for Yesterday's Films : Making Music for Silent Cinema (pp. 192-215). Palgrave Macmillan.
• Wallengren, A.-K. & Donnelly, K. J. (2016). Music and the Resurfacing of Silent Film : A General Introduction. In Donnelly, K. J. & Wallengren, A.-K. (Eds.) Today's Sounds for Yesterday's Films : Making Music for Silent Cinema (pp. 1-9). Palgrave Macmillan.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2015). Powered by Music : Contemporary Film Musicals, Nordic Style. In Gustafsson, T. & Kääpä, P. (Eds.) Nordic Genre Film : Small Nation Film Cultures in the Global Marketplace (pp. 173-185). Edinburgh University Press.
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• Hedling, E. & Wallengren, A.-K. (2014). Bland konstnärer, rättskipare och avfällingar: en introduktion till den nya svenska filmen. In Hedling, E. & Wallengren, A.-K. (Eds.) Den nya svenska filmen: kultur, kriminalitet, kakofoni. Bokförlaget Atlantis.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2014). Svenska Hollywoodfruar och kulturella karikatyrer. In Erik, H. & Ann-Kristin, W. (Eds.) Den nya svenska filmen: kultur, kriminalitet, kakofoni. Bokförlaget Atlantis.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2012). Dollartåget. In Jönsson, M. & Snickars, P. (Eds.) "Skosmörja eller arkivdokument?" Om filmarkivet.se och den digitala filmhistorien. (pp. 229-245). Kungliga biblioteket.
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• Wallengren, A.-K. (2010). "John Ericsson: Victor of Hampton Roads". Images of Sweden in American History. In Hedling, E., Hedling, O. & Jönsson, M. (Eds.) Regional Aesthetics : Locating Swedish Media (pp. 63-81). National Library of Sweden.
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• Wallengren, A.-K. (2010). Celebrating Swedishness. Swedish-Americans and Cinema. In Marklund, A. & Larsson, M. (Eds.) Swedish Film. An Introduction and Reader (pp. 134-144). Nordic Academic Press.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2010). Importing evil: The American Gangster, Swedish Cinema, and Anti-American Propaganda. In Bolton, K. & Olsson, J. (Eds.) Media, Popular Culture, and the American Century (pp. 216-227). National Library of Sweden.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2009). Småland-Amerika tur och retur: Filmen och smålänningen. In Littberger Caisou-Rousseau, I., Nilsson, M. & Carina, S. (Eds.) Speglingar av Småland (pp. 249-269). Isaberg förlag.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2008). På besök i det gamla hemlandet: amerikaemigranternas återvändarfilmer. In Hedling, E. & Jönsson, M. (Eds.) Välfärdsbilder : Svensk film utanför biografen. (pp. 320-334). Statens ljud- och bildarkiv.
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• Wallengren, A.-K. (2007). Svenskhet i diasporan - nationell film och den svenskamerikanska pressen. In Nilsson, M., Rydén, P. & Sjöberg, B. (Eds.) Då och där, här och nu - festskrift till Ingemar Oscarsson (pp. 33-45). Språk- och litteraturcentrum, Lunds universitet.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2006). Kultur och okultur - bilden av landsbygdens folk. In Hedling, E. & Wallengren, A.-K. (Eds.) Solskenslandet: svensk film på 2000-talet. Bokförlaget Atlantis.
• Wallengren, A.-K. & Hedling, E. (2006). Svensk film i skuggan av sekelskiftet - en inledning. In Hedling, E. & Wallengren, A.-K. (Eds.) Solskenslandet: Svensk film på 2000-talet (pp. 9-18). Bokförlaget Atlantis.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2005). Filmmusik 1954-1955. Vildfåglar. In Tegen, M. (Ed.) Dag Wirén - en vägvisare. Gidlunds förlag.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2005). Körkarlen. In Tegen, M. (Ed.) Dag Wirén - en vägvisare. Gidlunds förlag.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2005). Två filmer av Alf Sjöberg. Bara en mor. Fröken Julie. In Tegen, M. (Ed.) Dag Wirén - en vägvisare. Gidlunds förlag.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2005). Wiréns filmmusik - ett credo i kläm? Man glömmer ingenting. Oss tjuvar emellan eller en burk ananas. In Tegen, M. (Ed.) Dag Wirén - en vägvisare. Gidlunds förlag.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (1999). Ljudet och musiken i det moderna projektet : Modern Times, Mon Oncle och Koyaanisqatsi. In Andersson, L. G. & Hedling, E. (Eds.) Abaslon (Lund), Mannen med filmkameran : studier i modern film och filmisk modernism (pp. 131-146), 16. Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, Lunds universitet.
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• Wallengren, A.-K. (1999). Provocerande undervisning. Arbetare -71 i ett berättartekniskt perspektiv. In Sandin, B. (Ed.) Medier och modernisering. En antologi om utbildningsprogram och samhällsförändring. Stiftelsen Etermedierna i Sverige.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (1990). Stumfilm - en musikdramatisk upplevelse. In Olsson, J. (Ed.) I offentlighetens ljus. Stumfilmens affischer, kritiker, stjärnor och musik. Brutus Östlings Bokförlag Symposion.

Encyclopaedia entries (6)

• Wallengren, A.-K. (2015). Dag Wirén. Svensk filmdatabas (elektronisk resurs-webbsida). Svenska Filminstitutet.
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• Wallengren, A.-K. (2015). Hilding Rosenberg. Svensk filmdatabas (elektronisk resurs-webbsida). Svenska Filminstitutet.
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• Wallengren, A.-K. (2015). Lars-Erik Larsson. Svensk filmdatabas (elektronisk resurs-webbsida). Svensk Filmindustri.
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• Wallengren, A.-K. (2013). Björn Isfält. Svensk filmdatabas (elektronisk resurs-webbsida). Svenska Filminstitutet.
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• Wallengren, A.-K. (2012). Edvard Persson. In Andersson, L. G., Hedling, O., Sundholm, J., Iversen, G., Thorsen, I. & Thor Møller, B. (Eds.) Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema. Scarecrow Press.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2012). Nils Poppe. In Andersson, L. G., Hedling, O., Sundholm, J., Iversen, G., Thorsen, I. & Thor Møller, B. (Eds.) Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema. Scarecrow Press.

Conference contributions (20)

• Wallengren, A.-K. (2018). Celebrated, Contested, Criticized: Anita Ekberg, a Swedish Sex Goddess in Hollywood.
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• Wallengren, A.-K. (2018). Ingmar Bergman’s Musical Moments.
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• Wallengren, A.-K. (2018). Musical Moments in Bergman Films.
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• Wallengren, A.-K. (2017). Anita Ekberg in Hollywood : A Contested Actress and Sex Goddess.
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• Wallengren, A.-K. (2016). "A Trip to Sweden for 50 cents": Screenings of Swedish Films in the Swedish-American Community in Seattle until 1950.
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• Wallengren, A.-K. (2015). Ingrid Bergman as Wartime Mediator : Swedish Immigrants as “the Same” in the OWI-film Swedes in America.
• Wallengren, A.-K. & Strukelj, A. (2014). Film Music in the Lab : Eye Tracking Experiments on Music's Influence on Film Semantics.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2013). Back to the Past: Screenings of Swedish Films in the Swedish-American Community until 1950.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2013). Film museum exhibitions. Local, regional and national stories about film and culture.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2012). Back to the Past: Screenings of Swedish Films in the Swedish-American Diaspora until 1950.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2012). Projektpresentation i gruppen Sverige och Nordamerika: migration, språk, kultur.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2011). Det svenskamerikanska hembiträdet i amerikansk populärfilm: från 1910-talets crossdressing till 1940-talets politiska karriär.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2011). Representations of the Female Swedish-American: From the Drag Maid to the Bikini Girl.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2011). The Swedish-American Maid in the American Popular Film: From Drag to Political Career.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2009). Importing Evil: The American Gangster, Swedish Cinema, and Anti-American Propaganda.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2009). The Swedish-American winning the American Civil War. The Swedish Nationalist Film in the 1930s.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2008). På besök i det gamla hemlandet - amerikaemigranternas återvändarfilmer.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2007). Sweden, America and the Emigrant in the Swedish Film.
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• Wallengren, A.-K. (2005). A Swede is a Swede is a Swede? Sweden and the Swedish-American: National Identity and Cinematic Representation.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2005). A Swede is a Swede is a Swede? Sweden and the Swedish-American: National Identity and Cinematic Representation.

Reviews (8)

• Wallengren, A.-K. (2016). "Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space" by Jennifer M. Bean, Anupama Kapse, and Laura Horak. Scandinavian Studies, 88, 331-336. Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study.
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• Wallengren, A.-K. (2007). The Cinema of Scandinavia, Tytti Soila (ed.) (2005). Film International, 5, 77-79. Intellect Ltd..
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2006). Transnational Cinema in a Global North: Nordic Cinema in Transition, Andrew Nestingen & Trevor G. Elkington (eds.) (2005). Film International, 4, 90-91. Intellect Ltd..
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2002). Paolo Cherchi Usai: The Death of Cinema. History, Cultural Memory and the Digital Dark Age (London: BFI Publishing 2001). Filmhäftet, 5, 42-42. Filmhäftet.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2001). Birger Langkjaer: Den lyttende tilskuer. Perception av lyd og musik i film (Köbenhavn: Museum Tusculanums Forlag 2000). Filmhäftet, 1, 62-63. Filmhäftet.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (2001). Pelle Snickars: Svensk film och visuell masskultur 1900 (Stockholm: Aura 2001). Filmhäftet, 5, 63-64. Filmhäftet.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (1999). Astrid Söderbergh Widding: Stumfilm i brytningstid. Stil och berättande i Georg af Klerckers filmer (Filmvetenskapliga institutionen, Stockholms universitet 1998). Filmhäftet, 2, 66-68. Filmhäftet.
• Wallengren, A.-K. (1998). Jessica Duchen: Erich Wolfgang Korngold (London: Phaidon Press Limited 1996), Brendan G Carroll: The Last Prodigy. A Biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press 1997). Filmhäftet, 4, 79-80. Filmhäftet.

Articles in specialist publications and popular press (1)

• Wallengren, A.-K. (1989). Filmmusikens berättande roll. Barnfilmrutan, 27, 3-7. Sveriges Förenade Barn- och Ungdomsfilmstudios, Sveriges Förenade Barn- och Ungdomsfilmstudios.

Supervision at Lund University (2)

• Krona, M. (2009). Från orsak till verkan : berättarstrategier i Sveriges Televisions inrikespolitiska nyhetsförmedling 1978-2005. Lund University (Media-Tryck). Dissertation.
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• Borg, M. (2006). Skol-TV - traditioner, visioner och former : en studie av skol-TV:s förutsättningar, framväxt och utveckling under 1960-talet. Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University. Dissertation.
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