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Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere
Edited by Anna Westerstahl Stenport and Arne Lunde
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Book Presentation:
A globalized history of Nordic film cultures in a transnational context
• Introduces the concept of “Elsewheres” and “Cinemas of Elsewhere” – of value for many small national film cultures
• Promotes an understanding of Scandinavian cinemas as world cinemas
• Examines overlooked and little-known aspects of how Nordic cinemas have been funded, produced, circulated, received, appropriated and re-imagined outside of Scandinavia
• Addresses cinemas of exile, diaspora, migration, emigration and immigration
• Integrates 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 representation
• Engages with questions of colonialism, gender, multi-lingualism, inter- and cross-cultural representation, film practice in the diaspora and visual anthropology
• Engages with Indigenous cinemas of the North
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.
Contributors
• Julie K. Allen, Brigham Young University
• Linda Badley, Middle Tennessee State University
• Ana Bento-Ribeiro, Paris Nanterre University
• Benjamin Bigelow, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
• Mats Bjorkin, University of Gothenburg
• Ib Bondebjerg, University of Copenhagen
• Patrick Ellis, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Kim Khavar Fahlstedt, Uppsala University
• Annie Fee, University of Oslo
• Saniya Lee Ghanoui, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Mette Hjort, Hong Kong Baptist University
• Ingrid S. Holtar, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
• Gunnar Iversen, Carleton University
• Lill-Ann Körber, Aarhus University
• Mariah Larsson, Linnaeus University
• Anneli Lehtisalo, University of Tampere
• Arne Lunde, UCLA
• Scott MacKenzie, Queen’s University
• Björn Nordfjörd, St. Olaf College
• Eva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen
• Anna Westerstahl Stenport, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Emil Stjernholm, Lund University
• Troy Storfjell, Pacific Lutheran University
• C. Claire Thomson, University College London
• Casper Tybjerg, University of Copenhagen
• Boel Ulfsdotter, University of Gothenburg
• Ann-Kristin Wallengren, Lund University
• Patrick Wen, UCLA
• Lynn R. Wilkinson, University of Texas at Austin
About the authors:
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.
Press 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
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
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