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Light in the dark : a history of filmmaking in Iceland / Björn Nordfjörd.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nordfjörd, Björn, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Iceland--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion picture industry--Iceland--History.
- Motion picture industry.
- Iceland--In motion pictures.
- Iceland.
- Film adaptations--Iceland.
- Film adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- 'Light in the Dark' tells the dramatic history of Icelandic cinema from its modest origin in the early twentieth century to the heterogenous and complex national cinema of today. In tracing this wide-ranging history, the author describes the constant tug between local and national cultural forces and the transnational and global pull of world cinema.
- Contents:
- Overview I, 1901-1979
- Iceland in living pictures
- Adapting a literary nation to film
- A cinema of fire and ice
- Overview II, 1980-1999
- The countryside versus the city
- The transnational imparative
- Adaptation as transnationalization
- Overview III, 2000-2020
- Crime, fiction, film, and television
- Hollywood does Iceland
- Icelandic women's cinema
- Animals and nature.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on December 13, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9780197762172
- 0197762174
- 9780197762158
- 0197762158
- OCLC:
- 1479277646
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