A companion to Nordic cinema / edited by Mette Hjort and Ursula Lindqvist.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hjort, Mette, editor.

Lindqvist, Ursula.

Series:

Wiley-Blackwell companions to national cinemas

Wiley Blackwell companions to national cinemas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Scandinavia--History.

Motion pictures.

History.

Scandinavia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 614 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2016.

Summary:

A Companion to Nordic Cinema" presents a collection of original essays that explore one of the world's oldest regional cinemas from its origins to the present day. It features original contributions from more than two dozen international film scholars based in the Nordic countries, the United States, Canada, Scotland, and Hong Kong , and covers a wide range of topics on the distinctive evolution of Nordic cinema including the silent Golden Age, Nordic film policy models and their influence, audiences and cinephilia, Nordic film training, and indigenous Sami cinema. It considers Nordic cinema's engagement with global audiences through coverage of such topics as Dogme 95, the avant-garde filmmaking movement begun by Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, and the global marketing and distribution of Nordic horror and Nordic noir. and offers fresh investigations of the work of global auteurs such as Carl Th. Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman, Lars von Trier, Aki KaurismAki, and Roy Andersson. It includes essays on Danish and Swedish television dramas, Finland's eco-documentary film production, the emerging tradition of Icelandic cinema, the changing dynamics of Scandinavian porn, and many more.

Contents:

Introduction

States of cinema: Nordic film policy

Introduction / Mette Hjort and Ursula Lindqvist

Regional and global dimensions of Danish film culture and film policy / Lb Bondebjerg

Developing a Bhutanese film sector in the intersection between gross national happiness and Danish guidance / Nis Gron

Cinema in the welfare state: notes on public support, regional film funds, and Swedish film policy / Olof Hedling

Education, enlightenment, and general propaganda: Dansk Kulturfilm and Carl Th. Dreyer's short films / Claire Thomson

Making filmmakers: models and values. Introduction / Mette Hjort and Ursula Lindqvist

How to train a director: film schools in the Nordic countries / Astrid Soderberg Widding

Non-fiction film culture in Sweden circa 1920-1960: pragmatic governance and consensual solidarity in a welfare state / Mats Jansson

Crossing borders: going transnational with "Danish" film training, capacity building, and talent development / Mette Hjort

Reeling 'em in: spectatorship and cinephilia

The rise and fall of Norwegian municipal cinemas / Ove Solum

The "Capital of Scandinavia": imaginary cityscapes and the art of creating an appetite for Nordic cinematic spaces / Maaret Koskinen

Jorn Donner and the emergence of a new film culture in post-war Scandinavia / Kimmo Laine

The formation of a cinema audience in sweden, 1915-1929 / Tommy Gustafsson

Reinventing the reel: transitions and triumphs

Introduction / Mette Hhjort and Ursula Lindqvist

Searching for art's promised land: Nordic silent cinema and the Swedish example / Casper Tybjerg

Aki kaurism ki: from punk to social democracy / Andrew Nestingen

Swedish cinema of the 1940s, a new wave / Fredrik Gustafsson

Between art and genre: Nordic horror cinema / Gunnar Iversen

A tradition of torturing women / Linda Haverty Rugg

Connecting points: global intersections

Introduction / Mette Hort and Ursula Lindqvist

Memories of cultural dismemberment: Nils Gaup, Mons Somby, and the re-membering of Sámi history / Wendy Gay Pearson

The Scandinavian colonies of silent-era Hollywood / Arne Lunde

Films into uniform: Dogma 95 and The last new wave / Scott Mackenzie

Nordic remakes in Hollywood: reconfiguring originals and copies / Anna Westerstahl Stenport

The global distribution of Swedish silent film / Laura Horak

The eye of industry: practitioner's agency

The writing of television drama: issues of creative collaboration and authorship in Danish writers' rooms / Eva Novrup Redvall

Universal aspirations and ecocosmopolitan rhetoric: the Finnish ecodocumentary / Pietari Kopo

The emergence of a tradition in Icelandic cinema from Children of nature to Volcano / Bjorn Nordfjord

The art of not telling stories in Nordic fiction films / Ursula Lindqvist

The death of porn? an autopsy of "Scandinavian sin" in the twenty-first century / Mariah Larsson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Companion to Nordic cinema.

ISBN:

9781118475256

1118475259

OCLC:

931860911

Publisher Number:

99976725444

40026274828