Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere
Description:... A globalized history of Nordic film cultures in a transnational contextIntroduces the concept of "Elsewheres" and "Cinemas of Elsewhere" - of value for many small national film culturesPromotes an understanding of Scandinavian cinemas as world cinemasExamines overlooked and little-known aspects of how Nordic cinemas have been funded, produced, circulated, received, appropriated and re-imagined outside of ScandinaviaAddresses cinemas of exile, diaspora, migration, emigration and immigrationIntegrates examples of early and silent cinema, popular cinema, art cinema, documentary, shorts, experimental film, expanded media, the avant-garde, video art, music videos, ethnography, television and digital representationEngages with questions of colonialism, gender, multi-lingualism, inter- and cross-cultural representation, film practice in the diaspora and visual anthropologyEngages with Indigenous cinemas of the NorthNordic 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.ContributorsJulie K. Allen, Brigham Young University Linda Badley, Middle Tennessee State UniversityAna Bento-Ribeiro, Paris Nanterre UniversityBenjamin Bigelow, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Mats Bjorkin, University of GothenburgIb Bondebjerg, University of CopenhagenPatrick Ellis, Georgia Institute of Technology Kim Khavar Fahlstedt, Uppsala University Annie Fee, University of OsloSaniya Lee Ghanoui, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignMette Hjort, Hong Kong Baptist UniversityIngrid S. Holtar, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Gunnar Iversen, Carleton University Lill-Ann Körber, Aarhus UniversityMariah Larsson, Linnaeus UniversityAnneli Lehtisalo, University of Tampere Arne Lunde, UCLAScott MacKenzie, Queen's University Björn Nordfjörd, St. Olaf CollegeEva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen Anna Westerstahl Stenport, Georgia Institute of TechnologyEmil Stjernholm, Lund University Troy Storfjell, Pacific Lutheran University C. Claire Thomson, University College LondonCasper Tybjerg, University of Copenhagen Boel Ulfsdotter, University of GothenburgAnn-Kristin Wallengren, Lund UniversityPatrick Wen, UCLALynn R. Wilkinson, University of Texas at Austin...
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