Overview
Nordic Genre Film offers a transnational approach to studying contemporary genre production in Nordic cinema. It discusses a range of internationally renowned examples, from Nordic noir such as the television show The Bridge and films like Insomnia to high concept 'video generation' productions such as Iron Sky. Other contributions focus on road movies, the horror film, autobiographical films, historical epics and pornography. These are contextualized by discussion of their position in their respective national film and media histories as well as their influence on other Nordic countries and beyond. By highlighting similarities and differences between the countries, the book combines industrial perspectives and in depth discussion of specific films, while also offering historical perspectives on each genre as comes to production, distribution and reception of popular contemporary genre film.
Full Product Details
Author: Tommy Gustafsson (Professor of Film Studies, Linnaeus University) ,
Pietari Kääpä (Lecturer in Media and Communications, University of Stirling)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Weight: 0.440kg
ISBN: 9781474431149
ISBN 10: 1474431143
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 22 February 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This multifaceted - and longed-for - anthology explores Nordic film through a dynamic transnational perspective, combining thorough analytical approaches with a wide range of cultural and social observations. The texts uncover the importance of Nordic genre cinema from romantic comedy to slasher, and put its recent successes in a historical context. -- Lars Gustaf Andersson, Lund University, Sweden The volume stands out in its breadth of critical discussion and detailed examination of contemporary, post-2000 films and television series. What is indeed refreshing is that the chapters in this book pay particular attention to the transnational production, distribution, and reception of contemporary genre films - in part following the 'institutional turn' in film studies today, and in part an effort to expand our understanding of genre and its connections to regional and transnational dynamics. -- Pei-Sze Chow, Scandinavica: An International Journal of Scandinavian Studies
This multifaceted - and longed-for - anthology explores Nordic film through a dynamic transnational perspective, combining thorough analytical approaches with a wide range of cultural and social observations. The texts uncover the importance of Nordic genre cinema from romantic comedy to slasher, and put its recent successes in a historical context. -- Lars Gustaf Andersson, Lund University, Sweden The volume stands out in its breadth of critical discussion and detailed examination of contemporary, post-2000 films and television series. What is indeed refreshing is that the chapters in this book pay particular attention to the transnational production, distribution, and reception of contemporary genre films - in part following the 'institutional turn' in film studies today, and in part an effort to expand our understanding of genre and its connections to regional and transnational dynamics. -- Pei-Sze Chow, Scandinavica: An International Journal of Scandinavian Studies
This multifaceted - and longed-for - anthology explores Nordic film through a dynamic transnational perspective, combining thorough analytical approaches with a wide range of cultural and social observations. The texts uncover the importance of Nordic genre cinema from romantic comedy to slasher, and put its recent successes in a historical context. -- Lars Gustaf Andersson, Lund University, Sweden The volume stands out in its breadth of critical discussion and detailed examination of contemporary, post-2000 films and television series. What is indeed refreshing is that the chapters in this book pay particular attention to the transnational production, distribution, and reception of contemporary genre films - in part following the 'institutional turn' in film studies today, and in part an effort to expand our understanding of genre and its connections to regional and transnational dynamics. -- Pei-Sze Chow, Scandinavica: An International Journal of Scandinavian Studies
This multifaceted - and longed-for - anthology explores Nordic film through a dynamic transnational perspective, combining thorough analytical approaches with a wide range of cultural and social observations. The texts uncover the importance of Nordic genre cinema from romantic comedy to slasher, and put its recent successes in a historical context. -- Lars Gustaf Andersson, Lund University, Sweden The volume stands out in its breadth of critical discussion and detailed examination of contemporary, post-2000 films and television series. What is indeed refreshing is that the chapters in this book pay particular attention to the transnational production, distribution, and reception of contemporary genre films - in part following the 'institutional turn' in film studies today, and in part an effort to expand our understanding of genre and its connections to regional and transnational dynamics. -- Pei-Sze Chow, Scandinavica: An International Journal of Scandinavian Studies
Author Information
Tommy Gustafsson is Professor of Film Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. His books include The Politics of Nordsploitation (with Pietari Kääpä, 2021), Masculinity in the Golden Age of Swedish Cinema (2014), and the anthologies Nordic Genre Films (EUP, 2015) and Transnational Ecocinema (2013), both co-edited with Pietari Kääpä. Pietari Kääpä is Lecturer in Media and Communications at University of Stirling. He is the author of The Cinema of Mika Kaurismaki (Intellect Books, 2011) and Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinemas (Continuum, 2013). With Tommy Gustafsson, he is co-editor of Transnational Ecocinema: Film Culture in an Era of Ecological Transformation (Intellect, 2013).
