Anna Stenport is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Georgia, USA. Her books include New Arctic Cinemas: Media Sovereignty and the Climate Crisis (with Scott MacKenzie)(2023) and Nordic Film Classics: ‘Show Me Love’ by Lukas Moodysson (2012). She is co-editor of Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere (with Arne Lunde) (2019) and Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos (with Lilya Kaganovsky and Scott MacKenzie) (2019).Mariah Larsson is Professor of Film Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her books include The Swedish Porn Scene: Exhibition Contexts, 8mm Pornography and the Sex Film (2017) and (co-edited with Elisabet Björklund) A Visual History of HIV/AIDS: Exploring the Face of AIDS Film Archive (2019).

• Acknowledgments 1. Introducing The Girls2. Between Theatre and Cinema in The 1960s 3. Spatial Aesthetics of The Welfare State4. The Long Life of The GirlsNotesCredits

Anna Stenport is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Georgia, USA. Her books include New Arctic Cinemas: Media Sovereignty and the Climate Crisis (with Scott MacKenzie)(2023) and Nordic Film Classics: ‘Show Me Love’ by Lukas Moodysson (2012). She is co-editor of Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere (with Arne Lunde) (2019) and Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos (with Lilya Kaganovsky and Scott MacKenzie) (2019).Mariah Larsson is Professor of Film Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her books include The Swedish Porn Scene: Exhibition Contexts, 8mm Pornography and the Sex Film (2017) and (co-edited with Elisabet Björklund) A Visual History of HIV/AIDS: Exploring the Face of AIDS Film Archive (2019).

• Acknowledgments 1. Introducing The Girls2. Between Theatre and Cinema in The 1960s 3. Spatial Aesthetics of The Welfare State4. The Long Life of The GirlsNotesCredits

Anna Stenport is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Georgia, USA. Her books include New Arctic Cinemas: Media Sovereignty and the Climate Crisis (with Scott MacKenzie)(2023) and Nordic Film Classics: ‘Show Me Love’ by Lukas Moodysson (2012). She is co-editor of Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere (with Arne Lunde) (2019) and Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos (with Lilya Kaganovsky and Scott MacKenzie) (2019).Mariah Larsson is Professor of Film Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her books include The Swedish Porn Scene: Exhibition Contexts, 8mm Pornography and the Sex Film (2017) and (co-edited with Elisabet Björklund) A Visual History of HIV/AIDS: Exploring the Face of AIDS Film Archive (2019).

• Acknowledgments 1. Introducing The Girls2. Between Theatre and Cinema in The 1960s 3. Spatial Aesthetics of The Welfare State4. The Long Life of The GirlsNotesCredits