Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere

Anna Westerstahl Stenport, Arne Lunde

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2019
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781474438070
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere introduces a new concept to Nordic film studies as well as to other small national, transnational and world cinema traditions. Examining overlooked 'elsewheres', the book presents Nordic cinemas as international, cosmopolitan, diasporic and geographically dispersed, from their beginnings in the early silent period to their present 21st-century dynamics. Exploring both canonical works by directors like Ingmar Bergman and Lars von Trier, as well as a wide range of unknown or overlooked narratives of movement, synthesis and resistance, the book offers a new model of inquiry into a multi-varied Scandinavian cultural lineage, and into small nation and pan-regional world cinemas.

Table of contents

• NORDIC FILM CULTURES AND CINEMAS OF ELSEWHERE
• Copyright
• Contents
• FIGURES
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• CONTRIBUTORS
• TRADITIONS IN WORLD CINEMA
• 1. Introduction: Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere
• PART I TRACES AND ERASURES
• 2. Mapping Cinema Ghosts: Reconstructing the Circulation of Nordic Silent Film in Australia
• 3. Charlie Chan’s Last Mystery, or, the Transcultural Disappearance of Warner Oland
• 4. Carin Fock-Göring’s Gravestone: Tracing the Legacy of The Swedish First Lady of the Third Reich
• 5. Mobility and Marginalization: Arne Sucksdorff’s Documentary Authorship in India and Brazil
• 6. “Let’s Get a Swede!”: Peter Goldmann, The Beatles, and the Origins of the Music Video
• 7. Out of the Margins of Feminist Filmmaking: Vibeke Løkkeberg, Norway, and the Film Culture of 1970s West Berlin
• 8. The Gothenburg International Exile Film Festival in Context
• PART II INTERMEDIARIES
• 9. Opening up the Postwar World in Color: 1950s Geopolitics and Spectacular Nordic Colonialism in the Arctic and in Africa
• 10. The Diasporic Cinemas of Ingrid Bergman
• 11. “Here is my home”: Voiceover and Foreign-language Versions in postwar Danish informational film
• 12. A Sámi in Hollywood: Nils Gaup’s Transnational and Generic Negotiations
• 13. “There is no Elsewhere!”: Stories of Race, Decolonization, and Global Connectivity in Göran Hugo Olsson’s Documentaries
• 14. Aki Kaurismäki’s Finno-French Connections and Other Transcultural Elsewheres
• 15. Nordic Noir as a Calling Card: The International Careers of Danish Film and Television Talent in the 2010s
• PART III CONTACT ZONES
• 16. Paris Looks to the North: Swedish Silent Film and the Emergence of Cinephilia
• 17. Celebrated, Contested, Criticized: Anita Ekberg, a Swedish Sex Goddess in Hollywood
• 18. The Finnish Cinema Colony in North America, 1938−1941
• 19. The Transnational Politics of Lars von Trier’s and Thomas Vinterberg’s “Amerika”
• 20. The Globalization of the Danish Documentary: Creative Collaboration and Modes of Global Documentaries
• 21. Elsewheres of Healing: Trans-Indigenous Spaces in Elle-Máijá Apiniskim Tailfeathers’ Bihttoš
• 22. Denmark beyond Denmark: Soft Power, Talent Development, and Filmmaking in the Middle East 
• PART IV REVISITATIONS
• 23. Dreyer’s Jeanne d’Arc at the Cinéma d’Essai: Cinephiliac and Political Passions in 1950s Paris
• 24. I Am Curious (Yellow) as Sex Education in the USA
• 25. Transnational Cinefeminism of the 1970s and Mai Zetterling’s Documentary Elsewheres 
• 26. The Serpent’s Egg: Ingmar Bergman’s Exilic Elsewheres in 1970s New German and New Hollywood Cinema
• 27. Bridging Places, Media, and Traditions: Lasse Hallström’s Chronotopes
• 28. Criminal Undertakings: Nicolas Winding Refn, European Film Aesthetics, and Hollywood Genre Cinema
• 29. The Cinematic Kon-Tiki Expeditions: Realism, Spectacle, and the Migration of Nordic Cinema
• Index