Elisabet Björklund is a senior lecturer in film studies at Linnaeus University in Växjö. Mariah Larsson has taught sexuality studies at Malmö University and is a senior lecturer in film studies at Linnaeus University.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments (Elisabet Björklund and Mariah Larsson)Introduction: Beyond Swedish Summers (Elisabet Björklund and Mariah Larsson)I. Summertime SensualityThe Story of a Bad Girl! Summer with Monika, Sexploitation and the Selling of Erotic Bergman in America (Arne Lunde)It Started with a Kiss: Sexuality and Swedish Film in 1951 (Anders Marklund)II. Art, Sexploitation and PornographyPillow Talk, Swedish Style: To Love (Anu Koivunen)Her Body, His Self: Authorship and Gender in I Am Curious (Yellow) and I Am Curious (Blue) (Anders Wilhelm Åberg)Ann and Eve: A Filmmaker Strikes Back (Bengt Bengtsson)A Porn of One’s Own? ­Anne-Marie Berglund and Weekend in Stockholm (Mariah Larsson)Come and Blow the Horn: Sound, Sex and Cultural Heritage (Mats Björkin)III. Obscenity and CensorshipThe Open Secret: Illegal Screenings of Pornographic Films for Public Audiences in Sweden, 1921–1943 (Tommy Gustafsson)491 and the Censorship Controversy (Lena Lennerhed)The Limits of Sexual Depictions in the Late 1960s (Elisabet Björklund)IV. The Institutionalization of Sex in SwedenInstitutionalized Sexploitation? The Swedish Film Institute and Research on the Effects of Cinema in the 1960s (Per Vesterlund)P(owe)R, Sex and Mad Men Swedish Style—Or How the Personal Can Become the Political (Maaret Koskinen)Egrets in the Porno Swamp: The Swedish Film Institute and Swedish Sin (Lars Diurlin)V. The American Reception of SwedishIllegally Blonde: Swedish Sin and Pornography in U.S. and Swedish Imaginations, 1955–1971 (Klara Arnberg and Carl Marklund)A Modicum of Social Value? The Critical and Legal DiscussionI Am Curious (Yellow) in America (Ulf Jonas Björk)Many of Your Finer Nudie Films: Saga Film, Swedish National Cinema and Seventies Transnational Erotic Film (Kevin Heffernan)About the ContributorsIndex

Elisabet Björklund is a senior lecturer in film studies at Linnaeus University in Växjö. Mariah Larsson has taught sexuality studies at Malmö University and is a senior lecturer in film studies at Linnaeus University.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments (Elisabet Björklund and Mariah Larsson)Introduction: Beyond Swedish Summers (Elisabet Björklund and Mariah Larsson)I. Summertime SensualityThe Story of a Bad Girl! Summer with Monika, Sexploitation and the Selling of Erotic Bergman in America (Arne Lunde)It Started with a Kiss: Sexuality and Swedish Film in 1951 (Anders Marklund)II. Art, Sexploitation and PornographyPillow Talk, Swedish Style: To Love (Anu Koivunen)Her Body, His Self: Authorship and Gender in I Am Curious (Yellow) and I Am Curious (Blue) (Anders Wilhelm Åberg)Ann and Eve: A Filmmaker Strikes Back (Bengt Bengtsson)A Porn of One’s Own? ­Anne-Marie Berglund and Weekend in Stockholm (Mariah Larsson)Come and Blow the Horn: Sound, Sex and Cultural Heritage (Mats Björkin)III. Obscenity and CensorshipThe Open Secret: Illegal Screenings of Pornographic Films for Public Audiences in Sweden, 1921–1943 (Tommy Gustafsson)491 and the Censorship Controversy (Lena Lennerhed)The Limits of Sexual Depictions in the Late 1960s (Elisabet Björklund)IV. The Institutionalization of Sex in SwedenInstitutionalized Sexploitation? The Swedish Film Institute and Research on the Effects of Cinema in the 1960s (Per Vesterlund)P(owe)R, Sex and Mad Men Swedish Style—Or How the Personal Can Become the Political (Maaret Koskinen)Egrets in the Porno Swamp: The Swedish Film Institute and Swedish Sin (Lars Diurlin)V. The American Reception of SwedishIllegally Blonde: Swedish Sin and Pornography in U.S. and Swedish Imaginations, 1955–1971 (Klara Arnberg and Carl Marklund)A Modicum of Social Value? The Critical and Legal DiscussionI Am Curious (Yellow) in America (Ulf Jonas Björk)Many of Your Finer Nudie Films: Saga Film, Swedish National Cinema and Seventies Transnational Erotic Film (Kevin Heffernan)About the ContributorsIndex

Elisabet Björklund is a senior lecturer in film studies at Linnaeus University in Växjö. Mariah Larsson has taught sexuality studies at Malmö University and is a senior lecturer in film studies at Linnaeus University.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments (Elisabet Björklund and Mariah Larsson)Introduction: Beyond Swedish Summers (Elisabet Björklund and Mariah Larsson)I. Summertime SensualityThe Story of a Bad Girl! Summer with Monika, Sexploitation and the Selling of Erotic Bergman in America (Arne Lunde)It Started with a Kiss: Sexuality and Swedish Film in 1951 (Anders Marklund)II. Art, Sexploitation and PornographyPillow Talk, Swedish Style: To Love (Anu Koivunen)Her Body, His Self: Authorship and Gender in I Am Curious (Yellow) and I Am Curious (Blue) (Anders Wilhelm Åberg)Ann and Eve: A Filmmaker Strikes Back (Bengt Bengtsson)A Porn of One’s Own? ­Anne-Marie Berglund and Weekend in Stockholm (Mariah Larsson)Come and Blow the Horn: Sound, Sex and Cultural Heritage (Mats Björkin)III. Obscenity and CensorshipThe Open Secret: Illegal Screenings of Pornographic Films for Public Audiences in Sweden, 1921–1943 (Tommy Gustafsson)491 and the Censorship Controversy (Lena Lennerhed)The Limits of Sexual Depictions in the Late 1960s (Elisabet Björklund)IV. The Institutionalization of Sex in SwedenInstitutionalized Sexploitation? The Swedish Film Institute and Research on the Effects of Cinema in the 1960s (Per Vesterlund)P(owe)R, Sex and Mad Men Swedish Style—Or How the Personal Can Become the Political (Maaret Koskinen)Egrets in the Porno Swamp: The Swedish Film Institute and Swedish Sin (Lars Diurlin)V. The American Reception of SwedishIllegally Blonde: Swedish Sin and Pornography in U.S. and Swedish Imaginations, 1955–1971 (Klara Arnberg and Carl Marklund)A Modicum of Social Value? The Critical and Legal DiscussionI Am Curious (Yellow) in America (Ulf Jonas Björk)Many of Your Finer Nudie Films: Saga Film, Swedish National Cinema and Seventies Transnational Erotic Film (Kevin Heffernan)About the ContributorsIndex