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Author:   Mette Hjort (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) ,  Ursula Lindqvist (Harvard University, USA)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.202kg
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9781118475256

ISBN 10:   1118475259
Pages:   632
Publication Date:   27 May 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xii Introduction: Nordic Cinema: Breaking New Waves since the Dawn of Film 1 Mette Hjort and Ursula Lindqvist Part I States of Cinema: Nordic Film Policy 13 Introduction 15 Mette Hjort and Ursula Lindqvist 1 Regional and Global Dimensions of Danish Film Culture and Film Policy 19 Ib Bondebjerg 2 Developing a Bhutanese Film Sector in the Intersection between Gross National Happiness and Danish Guidance 41 Nis Grøn 3 Cinema in the Welfare State: Notes on Public Support, Regional Film Funds, and Swedish Film Policy 60 Olof Hedling 4 “Education, Enlightenment, and General Propaganda”: Dansk Kulturfilm and Carl Th. Dreyer’s Short Films 78 C. Claire Thomson Part II Making Filmmakers: Models and Values 99 Introduction 101 Mette Hjort and Ursula Lindqvist 5 How to Train a Director—Film Schools in the Nordic Countries 105 Astrid Söderbergh Widding 6 Non-Fiction Film Culture in Sweden circa 1920–1960: Pragmatic Governance and Consensual Solidarity in a Welfare State 125 Mats Jönsson 7 Crossing Borders: Going Transnational with “Danish” Film Training, Capacity Building, and Talent Development 148 Mette Hjort Part III Reeling ’Em In: Spectatorship and Cinephilia 173 Introduction 175 Ursula Lindqvist and Mette Hjort 8 The Rise and Fall of Norwegian Municipal Cinemas 179 Ove Solum 9 The “Capital of Scandinavia?” Imaginary Cityscapes and the Art of Creating an Appetite for Nordic Cinematic Spaces 199 Maaret Koskinen 10 Jörn Donner and the Emergence of a New Film Culture in Postwar Scandinavia 224 Kimmo Laine 11 The Formation of a Cinema Audience in Sweden, 1915–1929 242 Tommy Gustafsson Part IV Reinventing the Reel: Transitions and Triumphs 265 Introduction 267 Ursula Lindqvist and Mette Hjort 12 Searching for Art’s Promised Land: Nordic Silent Cinema and the Swedish Example 271 Casper Tybjerg 13 Aki Kaurismäki—From Punk to Social Democracy 291 Andrew Nestingen 14 Swedish Cinema of the 1940s, a New Wave 313 Fredrik Gustafsson 15 Between Art and Genre: New Nordic Horror Cinema 332 Gunnar Iversen 16 A Tradition of Torturing Women 351 Linda Haverty Rugg Part V Connecting Points: Global Intersections 371 Introduction 373 Mette Hjort and Ursula Lindqvist 17 Memories of Cultural Dismemberment: Nils Gaup, Mons Somby, and the Re]Membering of Sámi History 377 Wendy Gay Pearson 18 The Scandinavian Colonies of Silent]Era Hollywood 396 Arne Lunde 19 Films into Uniform: Dogme 95 and the Last New Wave 417 Scott MacKenzie 20 Nordic Remakes in Hollywood: Reconfiguring Originals and Copies 436 Anna Westerståhl Stenport 21 The Global Distribution of Swedish Silent Film 457 Laura Horak Part VI The Eye of Industry: Practitioner’s Agency 485 Introduction 487 Ursula Lindqvist and Mette Hjort 22 The Writing of Television Drama: Issues of Creative Collaboration and Authorship in Danish Writers’ Rooms 491 Eva Novrup Redvall 23 Universal Aspirations and Ecocosmopolitan Rhetoric: The Finnish Ecodocumentary 510 Pietari Kääpä 24 The Emergence of a Tradition in Icelandic Cinema: From Children of Nature to Volcano 529 Björn Nordfjörd 25 The Art of Not Telling Stories in Nordic Fiction Films 547 Ursula Lindqvist 26 The Death of Porn? An Autopsy of “Scandinavian Sin” in the Twenty]first Century 566 Mariah Larsson Appendix 589 Index 591

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Mette Hjort is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Affiliate Professor of Visual Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, China, and Affiliate Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her publications include The Strategy of Letters, Small Nation, Global Cinema, Lone Scherfig&'s ‘Italian for Beginners', and a series of interview books: The Danish Directors (with Ib Bondebjerg, 2001), The Danish Directors 2 (with Eva Jørholt and Eva Novrup Redvall, 2010), and The Danish Directors 3 (with Ib Bondebjerg and Eva Novrup Redvall, 2014). Ursula Lindqvist is Assistant Professor of Scandinavian Studies and Film and Media Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, USA. She is the author of Roy Andersson's Songs from the Second Floor: Contemplating the Art of Existence, and co-editor, with Jenny Björklund, of New Dimensions of Diversity in Nordic Culture and Society. Her articles have appeared in PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, Space and Culture: International Journal of Social Spaces, African and Black Diaspora, and a special issue of Scandinavian-Canadian Studies devoted to Nordic cinema.

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