Overview

Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere introduces a new concept to Nordic film studies as well as to other small national, transnational and world cinema traditions. Examining overlooked 'elsewheres', the book presents Nordic cinemas as international, cosmopolitan, diasporic and geographically dispersed, from their beginnings in the early silent period to their present 21st-century dynamics. Exploring both canonical works by directors like Ingmar Bergman and Lars von Trier, as well as a wide range of unknown or overlooked narratives of movement, synthesis and resistance, the book offers a new model of inquiry into a multi-varied Scandinavian cultural lineage, and into small nation and pan-regional world cinemas.

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Author:   Anna Westerstahl Stenport (Professor and Chair of the School of Modern Languages, Georgia Institute of Technology) ,  Arne Lunde (Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.576kg
ISBN:  

9781474438063

ISBN 10:   1474438067
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   31 August 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Illustrations and Captions Contributor Biographies 1. Introduction: Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere; Patrick Ellis, Arne Lunde, and Anna Westerstahl Stenport PART I: TRACES AND ERASURES 2. Mapping Cinema’s Ghosts: Reconstructing the Circulation of Nordic Silent Film in Australia; Julie K. Allen 3. Charlie Chan’s Last Mystery, or the Transcultural Disappearance of Warner Oland; Kim Khavar Fahlstedt 4. Karin Fock Göring’s Gravestone: Tracing the Legacy of the Swedish First Lady of the Third Reich; Patrick Wen 5. Mobility and Marginalization: Arne Sucksdorff’s Documentary Authorship in India and Brazil; Emil Stjernholm 6. ""Let’s Get a Swede!"" Peter Goldmann, The Beatles, and the Origins of the Music Video; Scott MacKenzie 7. Out of the Margins of Feminist Filmmaking: Vibeke Løkkeberg and the Film Cultures of 1970s West Berlin; Ingrid S. Holtar 8. The Gothenburg International Exile Film Festival in Context; Boel Ulfsdotter and Mats Björkin　 PART II: INTERMEDIARIES 9. Opening up the Post-War World in Color: 1950s Geopolitics and Spectacular Nordic Colonialism in the Arctic and in Africa; Anna Westerstahl Stenport 10. The Diasporic and Polyglot Works of Ingrid Bergman; Scott MacKenzie 11. ""Here is my home"": Voiceover and Foreign-language Versions in Post-war Danish informational film; C. Claire Thomson 12. A Sámi in Hollywood: Nils Gaup’s Transnational and Generic Negotiations; Gunnar Iversen 13. ""There is no Elsewhere!"" Stories of Race, Decolonization, and Global Connectivity in Göran Hugo Olsson’s Documentaries; Lill-Ann Körber 14. Aki Kaurismäki’s Finno-French Connections and Other Transcultural Elsewheres; Ana Bento Ribeiro 15. Nordic Noir as a Calling Card: The International Careers of Danish Film and Television Talent in the 2010s; Eva N. Redvall PART III: CONTACT ZONES 16. Paris Looks to the North: Swedish Silent Film and the Emergence of Cinephilia; Annie Fee 17. Celebrated, Contested, Criticized: Anita Ekberg, a Swedish Sex Goddess in Hollywood; Ann-Kristin Wallengren 18. The Finnish Cinema Colony in North America, 1938−1941; Anneli Lehtisalo 19. The Transnational Politics of Lars von Trier’s and Thomas Vinterberg’s ""Amerika""; Linda Badley 20. The Globalization of Danish Documentary: Creative Collaboration and Modes of Global Documentaries; Ib Bondebjerg 21. Elsewheres of Healing: Trans-Indigenous Spaces in Elle-Máijá Apiniskim Tailfeathers’ Bihttoš; Troy Storfjell (Sámi) 22. Denmark beyond Denmark: Soft Power, Talent Development, and Filmmaking in the Middle East; Mette Hjort　 PART IV. REVISITATIONS 23. Cinephiliac and Political Passions of the Parisian 1950s: Dreyer’s Jeanne d’Arc and the Cinéma d’Essai; Casper Tybjerg 24. I Am Curious (Yellow) as Sex Education in the United States; Saniya Lee Ghanoui 25. Transnational Cinefeminism of the 1970s and Mai Zetterling’s Documentary Elsewheres; Mariah Larsson 26. The Serpent’s Egg: Ingmar Bergman’s Exilic Elsewheres in 1970s New German and New Hollywood Cinema; Anna Westerstahl Stenport and Arne Lunde 27. Bridging Places, Media, and Traditions: Lasse Hallström’s Chronotopes; Lynn R. Wilkinson 28. Criminal Undertakings: Nicolas Winding Refn, European Film Aesthetics and Hollywood Genre Cinema; Björn Nordfjörd 29. The Cinematic Kon-Tiki Expeditions: Realism, Spectacle, and the Migration of Nordic Cinema; Benjamin Bigelow

Reviews

This rich book on Nordic film cultures explores various cross-cultural contact zones through the prism of cinematic 'elsewheres'. Ranging from stylistic specificities to socio-historical contexts, and from media archeological excavations to current, transnational flows of media culture, it brilliantly illuminates marginalized spaces and lost horizons, while at the same time boldly proposing to modify the very coordinates of Nordic film culture.--Maaret Koskinen, Emeritus Professor of Cinema Studies, Stockholm University

Author Information

Anna Westerstahl Stenport is Professor and Chair of the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has written extensively about Nordic cinema, media, visual cultures, culture, drama, and literature. She is the author of Nordic Film Classics: Lukas Moodysson’s ‘Show Me Love’ (Washington, 2012) and co-editor of Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic (with Scott MacKenzie, Edinburgh, 2015) and Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos (with Lilya Kaganovsky and Scott MacKenzie, Indiana, 2019). Arne Lunde is Associate Professor in the Scandinavian Section and in Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA. His book Nordic Exposures: Scandinavian Identities in Classical Hollywood Cinema (U. of Washington Press, 2010) explores Scandinavian whiteness and ethnicity in Hollywood cinema between and during the two world wars. He has published in Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, Film International, Film Quarterly, The Moving Image, Scandinavian Studies, Scandinavica, and Comparative Literature.

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