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Swedish Film Feminism is the first in-depth study of the feminist film movement in Sweden in the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing from a rich and largely overlooked audiovisual and textual archive, the book maps out the political and aesthetic features of this national film history, unpacking how the imaginary of Sweden’s gender equality both restricted and enabled women’s creative agency and artistic output during the Swedish welfare era. In addition to delineating the diverse initiatives through which film feminism materialized in Sweden, the book offers detailed case studies of production contexts that demonstrate the complexities of the era’s progressive climate. Intervening in current critical interrogations of Swedish exceptionalism, Ingrid Ryberg examines films such as the satirical short Mai Zetterling’s Stockholm (Mai Zetterling, 1978), the documentary ""Woman in the Middle of the World"" (Mona Sjöström and Ulf Hultberg, 1976), and the lesbian short Eva and Maria (Mary Eisikovits, Marie Falksten, and Annalena Öhrström, 1983). Beyond filling a historical gap by restoring the neglected Swedish case, Swedish Film Feminism challenges dominant canons, backstories, and frameworks in feminist film historiography, introducing analytical tools and reading strategies to reconsider women’s film histories that fall outside received parameters. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

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Swedish Film Feminism is a bold excavation into an “abundant but scattered” archive of 1970s culture ingeniously located and then lovingly analyzed by the intrepid media scholar, Ingrid Ryberg. A salute to feminism within a national film canon, Ryberg offers a critical contribution that nuances feminist film history as well as the theories and methods it encapsulates. -- Alexandra Juhasz, Professor of Film, Brooklyn College, USA

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Ingrid Ryberg is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and a filmmaker. She is co-editor of The Power of Vulnerability: Mobilising Affect in Feminist, Queer and Anti-racist Media Cultures (2018). In addition, she is the director of the documentary An Army of Lovers (2018), about queer filmmaking in Sweden in the 1970s.

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