Jan Olsson (born 1952 in Helsingborg)[1] is a Swedish film scholar, professor of cinema studies and former head of department at Stockholm University.
Along his trajectory of archival research, he has found copies of two previously lost early films, Buster Keaton's The Cook and Fatty Arbuckle's A Reckless Romeo.
[11] In a recent talk at the Unit of Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois, he presented this project in which he argued that like the culinary practices and standards set in his personal kitchen, Hitchcock's cinema required the same kind of preparation and the perfect blend of ingredients.
Through this combination of food art and cinema, Hitchcock created his iconic, international persona using a bizarre and untraditional connection with his sense of taste and love of the kitchen.
But a few years ago, Professor Jan Olsson of the Stockholm University Department of Cinema Studies contacted me on a special matter.
Here started the development of a close cooperation between the SVT and the University in fund raising for making the pre-broadcast material and catalogue more accessible to the academic public and of course in the end - the programme production.