Companion to Nordic Cinema

Mette Hjort is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Affiliate Professor of Visual Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, China, and Affiliate Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her publications include The Strategy of Letters, Small Nation, Global Cinema, Lone Scherfig&'s ‘Italian for Beginners', and a series of interview books: The Danish Directors (with Ib Bondebjerg, 2001), The Danish Directors 2 (with Eva Jørholt and Eva Novrup Redvall, 2010), and The Danish Directors 3 (with Ib Bondebjerg and Eva Novrup Redvall, 2014).Ursula Lindqvist is Assistant Professor of Scandinavian Studies and Film and Media Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, USA. She is the author of Roy Andersson's Songs from the Second Floor: Contemplating the Art of Existence, and co-editor, with Jenny Björklund, of New Dimensions of Diversity in Nordic Culture and Society. Her articles have appeared in PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, Space and Culture: International Journal of Social Spaces, African and Black Diaspora, and a special issue of Scandinavian-Canadian Studies devoted to Nordic cinema.

• Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xiiIntroduction: Nordic Cinema: Breaking New Waves since the Dawn of Film 1Mette Hjort and Ursula LindqvistPart I States of Cinema: Nordic Film Policy 13Introduction 15Mette Hjort and Ursula Lindqvist1 Regional and Global Dimensions of Danish Film Culture and Film Policy 19Ib Bondebjerg2 Developing a Bhutanese Film Sector in the Intersection between Gross National Happiness and Danish Guidance 41Nis Grøn3 Cinema in the Welfare State: Notes on Public Support, Regional Film Funds, and Swedish Film Policy 60Olof Hedling4 “Education, Enlightenment, and General Propaganda”: Dansk Kulturfilm and Carl Th. Dreyer’s Short Films 78C. Claire ThomsonPart II Making Filmmakers: Models and Values 99Introduction 101Mette Hjort and Ursula Lindqvist5 How to Train a Director—Film Schools in the Nordic Countries 105Astrid Söderbergh Widding6 Non-Fiction Film Culture in Sweden circa 1920–1960: Pragmatic Governance and Consensual Solidarity in a Welfare State 125Mats Jönsson7 Crossing Borders: Going Transnational with “Danish” Film Training, Capacity Building, and Talent Development 148Mette HjortPart III Reeling ’Em In: Spectatorship and Cinephilia 173Introduction 175Ursula Lindqvist and Mette Hjort8 The Rise and Fall of Norwegian Municipal Cinemas 179Ove Solum9 The “Capital of Scandinavia?” Imaginary Cityscapes and the Art of Creating an Appetite for Nordic Cinematic Spaces 199Maaret Koskinen10 Jörn Donner and the Emergence of a New Film Culture in Postwar Scandinavia 224Kimmo Laine11 The Formation of a Cinema Audience in Sweden, 1915–1929 242Tommy GustafssonPart IV Reinventing the Reel: Transitions and Triumphs 265Introduction 267Ursula Lindqvist and Mette Hjort12 Searching for Art’s Promised Land: Nordic Silent Cinema and the Swedish Example 271Casper Tybjerg13 Aki Kaurismäki—From Punk to Social Democracy 291Andrew Nestingen14 Swedish Cinema of the 1940s, a New Wave 313Fredrik Gustafsson15 Between Art and Genre: New Nordic Horror Cinema 332Gunnar Iversen16 A Tradition of Torturing Women 351Linda Haverty RuggPart V Connecting Points: Global Intersections 371Introduction 373Mette Hjort and Ursula Lindqvist17 Memories of Cultural Dismemberment: Nils Gaup, Mons Somby, and the Re]Membering of Sámi History 377Wendy Gay Pearson18 The Scandinavian Colonies of Silent]Era Hollywood 396Arne Lunde19 Films into Uniform: Dogme 95 and the Last New Wave 417Scott MacKenzie20 Nordic Remakes in Hollywood: Reconfiguring Originals and Copies 436Anna Westerståhl Stenport21 The Global Distribution of Swedish Silent Film 457Laura HorakPart VI The Eye of Industry: Practitioner’s Agency 485Introduction 487Ursula Lindqvist and Mette Hjort22 The Writing of Television Drama: Issues of Creative Collaboration and Authorship in Danish Writers’ Rooms 491Eva Novrup Redvall23 Universal Aspirations and Ecocosmopolitan Rhetoric: The Finnish Ecodocumentary 510Pietari Kääpä24 The Emergence of a Tradition in Icelandic Cinema: From Children of Nature to Volcano 529Björn Nordfjörd25 The Art of Not Telling Stories in Nordic Fiction Films 547Ursula Lindqvist26 The Death of Porn? An Autopsy of “Scandinavian Sin” in the Twenty]first Century 566Mariah LarssonAppendix 589Index 591