3. Charlie Chan’s Last Mystery, or the Transcultural Disappearance of Warner Oland

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xii
5. List of Contributors xiv
6. Traditions in World Cinema xx
7. 1. Introduction: Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere 1
8. PART I. TRACES AND ERASURES
9. 2. Mapping Cinema Ghosts: Reconstructing the Circulation of Nordic Silent Film in Australia 25
10. 3. Charlie Chan’s Last Mystery, or the Transcultural Disappearance of Warner Oland 42
11. 4. Carin Fock-Göring’s Gravestone: Tracing the Legacy of the Swedish First Lady of the Third Reich 53
12. 5. Mobility and Marginalization: Arne Sucksdorff’s Documentary Authorship in India and Brazil 67
13. 6. “Let’s Get a Swede!”: Peter Goldmann, The Beatles, and the Origins of the Music Video 76
14. 7. Out of the Margins of Feminist Filmmaking: Vibeke Løkkeberg, Norway, and the Film Cultures of 1970s West Berlin 85
15. 8. The Gothenburg International Exile Film Festival in Context 94
16. PART II. INTERMEDIARIES
17. 9. Opening up the Postwar World in Color: 1950s Geopolitics and Spectacular Nordic Colonialism in the Arctic and in Africa 105
18. 10. The Diasporic Cinemas of Ingrid Bergman 126
19. 11. “Here is My Home”: Voiceover and Foreign-language Versions in Postwar Danish informational film 141
20. 12. A Sámi in Hollywood: Nils Gaup’s Transnational and Generic Negotiations 157
21. 13. “There is no Elsewhere!”: Stories of Race, Decolonization, and Global Connectivity in Göran Hugo Olsson’s Documentaries 169
22. 14. Aki Kaurismäki’s Finno-French Connections and Other Transcultural Elsewheres 182
23. 15. Nordic Noir as a Calling Card: The International Careers of Danish Film and Television Talent in the 2010s 190
24. PART III. CONTACT ZONES
25. 16. Paris Looks to the North: Swedish Silent Film and the Emergence of Cinephilia 207
26. 17. Celebrated, Contested, Criticized: Anita Ekberg, a Swedish Sex Goddess in Hollywood 224
27. 18. The Finnish Cinema Colony in North America, 1938−1941 237
28. 19. The Transnational Politics of Lars von Trier’s and Thomas Vinterberg’s “Amerika” 244
29. 20. The Globalization of the Danish Documentary: Creative Collaboration and Modes of Global Documentaries 261
30. 21. Elsewheres of Healing: Trans-Indigenous Spaces in Elle-Máijá Apiniskim Tailfeathers’ Bihttoš 279
31. 22. Denmark beyond Denmark: Soft Power, Talent Development, and Filmmaking in the Middle East 287
32. PART IV. REVISITATIONS
33. 23. Dreyer’s Jeanne d’Arc at the Cinéma d’Essai: Cinephiliac and Political Passions in 1950s Paris 305
34. 24. I Am Curious (Yellow) as Sex Education in the USA 319
35. 25. Transnational Cinefeminism of the 1970s and Mai Zetterling’s Documentary Elsewheres 327
36. 26. The Serpent’s Egg: Ingmar Bergman’s Exilic Elsewheres in 1970s New German and New Hollywood Cinema 341
37. 27. Bridging Places, Media, and Traditions: Lasse Hallström’s Chronotopes 360
38. 28. Criminal Undertakings: Nicolas Winding Refn, European Film Aesthetics, and Hollywood Genre Cinema 370
39. 29. The Cinematic Kon-Tiki Expeditions: Realism, Spectacle, and the Migration of Nordic Cinema 378
40. Index 386