Mariah Larsson
ProfessorI received my Ph D from Lund University in 2006, with a dissertation on film director Mai Zetterling and the 1960s in Sweden. Since then, I have mainly combined the research fields film and sexuality. I started working at Linnaeus University in 2016, after previous employments at Malmö University and Stockholm University.
Teaching
I have taught at all levels of film studies, although lately mostly at the bachelor and advanced levels.
Research
My main area of research is film and sexuality, which includes the history of pornographic film in Sweden, but also issues such as film censorship and obscenity law, gender and popular culture, and national and transnational cinema. In the past few years, I have worked with the Face of AIDS film archive, in a collaboration between Karolinska institutet and film studies at Linnaeus University, but I have also returned to the film director Mai Zetterling. Among my most recent publications are A Visual History of HIV/AIDS: Exploring the Face of AIDS Film Archive (co-edited with Elisabet Björklund, Routledge, 2019), A Cinema of Obsession: The Life and Work of Mai Zetterling (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020) and Såra tukt och sedlighet: Hundra år av pornografi i Sverige (co-authored with Klara Arnberg, Tommy Gustafsson and Elisabet Björklund, Natur och kultur, 2021).
Currently, I am working on a project funded by the Swedish Research Council, called “Good pornography to the people: Sexual welfare, Fräcka fredag, and the Swedish porn discourse in the late 1980s” (3 years, granted in 2020). The project explores how “good” pornography was constructed in the Swedish social discourse in the late 1980s and what this reveals about the sexual ideology in Sweden at this point in time, with the television show Fräcka fredag, broadcast in the spring of 1988, as a point of departure and focus.
Commissions
Member of the steering committee for Sustainable Health
Co-coordinator of the Centre for Studies in Popular Culture
Publications
Book (Refereed)
- Larsson, M., Maldonado, M., Estrada, V. (2022). Cine y obsesion : La vida y obra de Mai Zetterling. Mexico City, Osífragos.
- Larsson, M. (2019). A Cinema of Obsession : The Life and Work of Mai Zetterling. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press.
- Larsson, M. (2017). The Swedish Porn Scene : Exhibition Contexts, 8mm Pornography and the Sex Film. Bristol/Chicago, Intellect Ltd..
Book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
- Larsson, M., Arnberg, K., Gustafsson, T., Björklund, E. (2021). Såra tukt och sedlighet : Hundra år av pornografi i Sverige. Stockholm, Natur och kultur.
Article in journal (Refereed)
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Laxdal, A., Torstveit, M.K., Ryman Augustsson, S., Ausland, A., Bjärsholm, D., et al. (2024). FIDES Athlete Development Programme : project background and study protocol of an embedded multiple case study. BMJ Open sport & exercise medicine. 10 (1).
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Larsson, M. (2024). Pornography and Transnationality : The Case of Hälle, Sweden in the 1970s. Lambda Nordica. 29 (1). 44-62.
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Larsson, M. (2024). Malmö in the Public Imaginary : Thin Blue Line, Dialect Television Drama, and Local Patriotism. HumaNetten. (52). 63-74.
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Larsson, M. (2023). Inge Ivarson and the Quality Porn Film. Porn Studies. 10 (4). 368-373.
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Carter, O., Gustafsson, T., Larsson, M. (2022). Golden Ages? : Media, Space and Transnationality. Porn Studies. 9 (1). 4-9.
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Larsson, M. (2022). The pre-digital in the digital : Private’s online back catalogue. Porn Studies. 9 (1). 27-37.
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Björkas, R., Larsson, M. (2021). Sex Dolls in the Swedish Media Discourse : Intimacy, Sexuality, and Technology. Sexuality & Culture. 25. 1227-1248.
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Larsson, M. (2019). Using health as an argument : The Swedish porn debate 2013-18. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. 9 (1). 111-116.
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Larsson, M. (2018). Oh Paris! : The Journeys of Lasse Braun's 8mm Pornography. JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. 58 (1). 158-163.
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Gustafsson, T., Larsson, M. (2018). Sexual violence, good taste and the education of the cinema audience : Gender and censorship in 1920s Sweden. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. 8 (3). 215-232.
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Larsson, M. (2017). Film Appreciation, Critical Evaluation, and Scholarship : Some Reflections on Teaching the First Year of EUFA. Alphaville : Journal of Film and Screen Media. (14). 177-180.
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Larsson, M., Rossholm, A.S. (2017). Documenting the present, processing the past, shaping future memory : The Face of AIDS Film Archive. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. 7 (2). 93-98.
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Larsson, M. (2017). Lasse Braun, rape scenarios, and Swedish censorship : a case study of two 8-mm porn films featuring rape. Porn Studies. 4 (1). 23-34.
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Larsson, M., Westerstahl Stenport, A. (2015). Documentary filmmaking as colonialist propaganda and cinefeminist intervention : Mai Zetterling's Of Seals and Men (1979). Film History. An International Journal. 27 (4). 106-129.
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Larsson, M. (2015). Ingmar Bergman, Swedish sexploitation and early Swedish porn. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. 5 (1). 49-61.
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Larsson, M. (2014). Making love detumescently : Some preliminary notes on the body language of the penis. Kosmorama (København). 258.
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Arnberg, K., Larsson, M. (2014). Benefits of the in-between : Swedish men’s magazines and sex films 1965–1975. Sexuality & Culture. 18 (2). 310-330.
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Larsson, M. (2013). Joe Sarno and historiography : some thoughts on The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. 3 (2). 101-105.
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Article in journal (Other academic)
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Gustafsson, T., Larsson, M. (2024). Introduction : Popular Culture, Media Engagement, and Democracy. HumaNetten. (52). 4-8.
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Gustafsson, T., Larsson, M. (2024). Introduction : Popular Culture, Media Engagement, and Democracy. HumaNetten. (52). 4-8.
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Hedling, O., Larsson, M. (2008). Editorial : Issue 36. Film International. 6 (6). 4-6.
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Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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Arnberg, K., Larsson, M. (2018). En playboys död : Hugh Hefner i backspegeln. Ord och bild. (1). 31-40.
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Chapter in book (Refereed)
- Larsson, M. (2021). Bringing Dragons Back Into the World : Dismantling the Anthropocene in Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings. The Enduring Fantastic : Essays on Imagination and Western Culture. Jefferson, NC, McFarland. 124-139.
- Larsson, M. (2020). Private Media Group. The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society. Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications. 1402-1403.
- Larsson, M., Westerstahl Stenport, A. (2019). Women Arctic Explorers : In Front of and Behind the Camera. Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos. Bloomington, Indiana University Press. 68-91.
- Larsson, M. (2019). Transnational Cinefeminism of the 1970s and Mai Zetterling’s Documentary Elsewheres. Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press. 327-340.
- Larsson, M. (2019). Constructions of Safe Sex : Between Desire and Governmentality. A Visual History of HIV/AIDS : Exploring the Face of AIDS Film Archive. London & New York, Routledge. 150-164.
- Larsson, M., Björklund, E. (2018). Introduction. A Visual History of HIV/AIDS : Exploring the Face of AIDS Film Archive. London & New York, Routledge. 1-13.
- Larsson, M. (2016). The Death of Porn? : An Autopsy of "Scandinavian Sin" in the Twenty-first Century. A Companion to Nordic Cinema. Wiley-Blackwell. 566-588.
- Larsson, M. (2016). Adapting Sex : Cultural Conceptions of Sexuality in Words and Images. Women of Ice and Fire : Gender, Game of Thrones, and Multiple Media Engagements. New York, London, Oxford, New Dehli, Bloomsbury Academic. 17-37.
- Larsson, M. (2016). A Porn of One's Own? : Anne-Marie Berglund and Weekend in Stockholm. Swedish Cinema and the Sexual Revolution : Critical Essays. jefferson, North Carolina, McFarland. 74-85.
- Björklund, E., Larsson, M. (2016). Introduction : Beyond Swedish Summers. Swedish Cinema and the Sexual Revolution : Critical Essays. jefferson, North Carolina, McFarland. 1-7.
- Larsson, M. (2015). A national/transnational genre : pornography in transition. Nordic genre film : small nation film cultures in the global marketplace. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press. 217-229.
Chapter in book (Other academic)
- Larsson, M. (2018). Mai Elisabet Zetterling : 1925-05-24 — 1994-03-17. Film director, author. Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon. Göteborg, University of Gothenburg.
- Larsson, M. (2015). Fantasies Becoming Illegal : The Manga Case, Child Porn Law, and the Regulation of the Sexual Mind. Sexual Fantasies : At the Convergence of the Cultural and the Individual. Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang Publishing Group. 143-158.
- Larsson, M., Johnsdotter, S. (2015). Introduction : At the Convergence of the Cultural and the Individual. Sexual Fantasies : At the Convergence of the Cultural and the Individual. Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang Publishing Group. 9-19.
- Arnberg, K., Larsson, M. (2015). Sexualskildringar inför lagen : kommentar till pornografianklagelser. Sexualpolitiska nyckeltexter. Stockholm, Leopard förlag. 219-227.
- Larsson, M., Arnberg, K. (2015). Pornografianklagelser. Sexualpolitiska nyckeltexter. Stockholm, Leopard förlag. 207-227.
- Larsson, M. (2014). Money shot. Cultural encyclopedia of the penis. New York, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 123-124.
- Larsson, M. (2014). Deep throat. Cultural encyclopedia of the penis. New York, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 49-50.
- Larsson, M. (2014). En queerfeministisk utopi? : Sexualitet i Millenniumserien. Den nya svenska filmen : Kultur, kriminalitet & kakafoni. Stockholm, Bokförlaget Atlantis. 111-126.
- Larsson, M. (2014). Pornography and erotica. Cultural encyclopedia of the penis. New York, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 166-168.
- Larsson, M. (2012). Älskande par (Loving Couples, 1964). Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema. Lanham Toronto Plymouth, Scarecrow Press. 48-49.
- Larsson, M. (2012). Zetterling, Mai (1925-1994). Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema. Lanham Toronto Plymouth, Scarecrow Press. 417-418.
- Larsson, M. (2012). Svarta affärer som blev vita? : Om sexbutiker som sexuella rum då och nu. Sexualitetsstudier. Stockholm, Liber. 125-139.
- Larsson, M. (2012). Kärlekens språk (The Language of Love). Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema. Lanham, Toronto, Plymouth, Scarecrow Press. 229-230.
Collection (editor) (Refereed)
- Gustafsson, T., Larsson, M. (2024). Popular Culture, Media Engagement, and Democracy. Linnéuniversitetet. 83.
- Carter, O., Gustafsson, T., Larsson, M. (2022). Porn Studies, Volume 9, Issue 1 (2022) : Transnational Porn. London, Taylor & Francis. 138.
- Björklund, E., Larsson, M. (2019). A Visual History of HIV/AIDS : Exploring the Face of AIDS Film Archive. London & New York, Routledge. 211.
- Björklund, E., Larsson, M. (2016). Swedish Cinema and the Sexual Revolution : Critical Essays. Jefferson, North Carolina, McFarland. 240.
Collection (editor) (Other academic)
- Larsson, M., Johnsdotter, S. (2015). Sexual Fantasies : At the Convergence of the Cultural and the Individual. Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang Publishing Group. 222.
- Hedling, O., Larsson, M. (2008). Film International : Sex in the Cinema. Intellect, Bristol. 100.
Artistic output (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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Hadziabdic, E., Brodén, K., Lilja, Å., Bratt, A.S., Sandgren, A., et al. (2024). ohållbart många ohälsosamma haikus om hållbar hälsa. Linnaeus University Press.
Seriealbum med haikus och illustrationer på temat Hållbar hälsa
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