Intellect Handbook of Nordic Cinema

Gunnar Iversen is a professor of film studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and an editor of the Journal of Scandinavian Cinema.Mariah Larsson is professor of film studies at Linnaeus University. Her publications include The Swedish Porn Scene: Exhibition Contexts, 8mm Pornography and the Sex Film (Intellect, 2017) and (co-edited with Elisabet Björklund) A Visual History of HIV/AIDS: Exploring the Face of AIDS Film Archive (Routledge Advances in Medical Humanities, 2019).

• IntroductionGunnar Iversen and Mariah Larsson Section 1: General overviewSection 1 Introduction Gunnar Iversen and Mariah LarssonChapter 1: The Sámi Film Wave: Sápmi and Sámi Film CultureStine Agnete SandChapter 2: Ultrasmall Cinemas of the North Atlantic: Greenland and theFaroe IslandsAnders GrønlundChapter 3: What Makes a Film Nordic? The Evolution of ‘Immigrant’ Filmmaking in the Nordic CountriesLinda Haverty RuggChapter 4: Nordic Cinema and Film Politics: The Norwegian CaseOve Solum and Dag AsbjørnsenChapter 5: Sustainable Nordic Screens: Environmental Content, Banal Materialism and Sustainable Production Practice in Nordic Film, TV, and Streaming MediaPietari Kääpä Section 2: Nation, Identities, HistorySection 2 IntroductionMariah Larsson and Gunnar Iversen Chapter 6: Norwegian Apocalypse: The Happiest People in the World Imagines DisastersGunnar IversenChapter 7: The Auteur as Bergman’s PersonaJan HolmbergChapter 8: Vikings and Nordic Film CultureBodil Petersson and Jes WienbergChapter 9: Sweden’s Top Comedians. An Introduction to Hasse & Tage for Non-Swedish AudiencesEmilio AudissinoChapter 10: The Danish Bedside comediesIsak ThorsenChapter 11: Heroes, Collaborators, Fighters, and Right-wing Populists: A Comparative Study of Contemporary Nordic Second World War-FilmsErik Hedling Section 3 Gender and SexualitySection 3 IntroductionMariah Larsson and Gunnar IversenChapter 12: Curating the Archive of Nordic Queer CinemaDagmar BrunowChapter 13: Feminist Interventions and Film Policy: The Work for Gender Equality in Nordic Film ProductionIngrid S. HoltarChapter 14: “One must alternately reconstruct as an archaeologist, search as a criminalist, or try to decipher like a psychoanalyst of the unconscious”: The Reception of “Homosexual” Film Characters in the 1940s and 50sIngrid RybergChapter 15: Obscene Films and Obscenity Law in the Nordic CountriesMariah Larsson Section 4: Social Critique and DocumentarySection 4 IntroductionGunnar Iversen and Mariah LarssonChapter 16: Framing the Nation. Spaces of Everyday Life in Scandinavian DocumentariesIb BondebjergChapter 17: Radical Scandinavian Documentary Culture in the 1970sBjørn SørenssenChapter 18: Screen Stories of Growing Up: Nordic Children’s and Youth FilmsAnders LysneChapter 19: On the Critical Edge of Nordic Cinemas: Award-Winning Nordic Films as Social CritiqueJonathan RozenkrantzChapter 20: Competing Screens? The Relation Between Cinema and Television in a Swedish ContextPer Vesterlund 5. FuturesSection 5 IntroductionGunnar Iversen and Mariah LarssonChapter 21: Piracy and Digital Film CulturePelle SnickarsChapter 22: Negotiating Content Rights with Global Streamers in Small Markets: A Case Study of Denmark’s ‘Streaming Crisis’Nina Vindum Rasmussen and Vilde Schanke SundetChapter 23: Nordic Animation and the Digital RevolutionJonas LindkvistChapter 24: Nordic Film History, Digitization and Online AccessEirik Frisvold Hanssen BibliographyIndex