Eirik Frisvold Hanssen has written extensively on film history, colour and cinema, intermediality, and visual culture. Among his publications are Early Discourses on Colour and Cinema: Origins, Functions, Meanings (PhD diss., Stockholm University 2006), "Eisenstein in Colour" (Journal of Art History 2004), "Symptoms of Desire: Colour, Costume, and Commodities in Fashion Newsreels of the 1910s and 1920s" (Film History 2009), "'His Eyes Are Like the Rays of Dawn': Color Vision and Embodiment in Leviathan" (Visual Anthropology Review 2015), and "Die Herkunft der Farbe. Film und die Technik der Spur" (Montage AV 2015). He has co-edited Adaptation Studies: New Challenges, New Directions (with Jørgen Bruhn and Anne Gjelsvik, 2013) and Small Country, Long Journeys: Norwegian Expedition Films (with Maria Fosheim Lund, 2017).