Evaluating the Achievement of One Hundred Years of Scandinavian Cinema [electronic resource] : Dreyer, Bergman, Von Trier, and Others

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tucker, John, 1944-

Contributor:

Tucker, John, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Scandinavia--History.

Motion pictures--History--Scandinavia.

Motion pictures.

Local Subjects:

Motion pictures--Scandinavia--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (454 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Evaluating the Achievement of One Hundred Years of Scandinavian Cinema

Place of Publication:

Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of twelve articles and one interview probes the historical evolution and cultural diversity of cinema from the Nordic countries: Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. The studies variously address cinematic schools and national traditions on one hand or individual films or filmmakers on the other. Cinematic modernism, censorship, and globalization are among the themes explored; the collection also addresses the aesthetic, moral, and social preoccupations of the great northern filmmakers from revered figures like Carl Th. Dreyer and Ingmar Bergman, to iconoclast contempo

Contents:

"We had to be careful.": The Self-Imposed Regulations, Alterations, and Censorship Strategies of Nordisk Films of Kompagni 1911-1928 Isak ThorsenFrom Working Class Drama to Academic Showdown: On Carl Th. Dreyer's Use of His Literary Source in Två Människor [Two People] (1945) Morten Egholm; Behind Idealism: The Discrepancy Between Philosophy and Reality in The Cinema of Lars von Trier Mads Bunch; Modes of Representation in Ingmar Bergman's Gycklarnus afton Marilyn Johns Blackwell; Doubling and Redoubling Bergman: Notes on the Dialetic of Disgrace and Disappearance Paul Coates

Roy Andersson's Cinematic Poetry and the Spectre of César Vallejo Ursula LindqvistReadymades, Rejects and the Ready-to-Hand: Found Objects in the Films of Aki Kaurismäki Lawrence D. Smith; Imaginaries of a Global Finland-Patterns of Globalization in Finnish National Cinema Pietari Kääpä; Contributors; Index of Keywords

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ISBN:

0-7734-1148-8

OCLC:

796383903