ReFocus: The Films of Susanne Bier

Missy Molloy is a Lecturer in the Film Programme at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). Mimi Nielsen is a Ph. D. Candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. Meryl Shriver-Rice is the Director of Environmental Media at the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy at the University of Miami, where she directs and teaches for the Abess Center’s Master’s in Environment, Culture, & Media.

At long last – a book dedicated to one of Scandinavia’s most significant directors of the 21st Century: Susanne Bier. Addressing key works and developments of Bier’s career at home and abroad, Refocus: The Films of Susanne Bier is a significant milestone with contributions by some of the most inspiring and insightful scholars of Nordic cinema today.'

• Foreword
 Andrew Nestingen Introduction
 Missy Molloy, Mimi Nielsen and Meryl Shriver-Rice PART 1: GENERIC & INDUSTRIAL FLUIDITY1. Birger Langkjær - Storytelling Schemes, Realism, and Ambiguity: Susanne Bier’s Danish Dramas2. Gunhild Agger - Negotiating Special Relationships: Susanne Bier’s Comedies3. Missy Molloy - Susanne Bier’s Hollywood Experiments: Things We Lost in the Fire and SerenaPART II: NEGOTIATING IDENTITY
4. Maureen Turim - Beginning with Jewish Survival: Freud’s Leaving Home 5. Anders Marklund - Stories with Queer Identities6. Pétur Valsson - The Case of Lars von Trier vs. Susanne Bier7. Mette Hjort - Gender Equity in Screen Culture: On Susanne Bier, the Celluloid Ceiling, and the Growing Appeal of TV ProductionPART III: AUTHORSHIP & AESTHETICS 
8. Mimi Nielsen - Tracing Affect in Susanne Bier’s Dramas9. Danica Van De Velde - Vision and Ethics in A Second Chance (En chance til)10. Eva Novrup Redvall - The Truth is in the Eyes: Bringing Art Cinema Glimpses to the High-end Television Drama Series The Night Manager PART IV: TRANSNATIONAL REACH11. Belinda Smaill - Cinema of the World and Women’s Film Culture: Susanne Bier’s Transnational Cinema12. Cath Moore - From Local to Global: The Bier-Jensen Screenwriting Collaboration13. Meryl Shriver-Rice - First World Guilt, Danish Privilege and Responsibility in the Work of Susanne BierPOSTSCRIPT: A CONVERSATION WITH SUSANNE BIER
 Interview with Susanne Bier conducted by volume editors, Missy Molloy, Mimi Nielsen and Meryl Shriver-Rice Filmography