Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere

A globalized history of Nordic film cultures in a transnational context

• Introduces the concept of “Elsewheres” and “Cinemas of Elsewhere” – of value for many small national film cultures
• Promotes an understanding of Scandinavian cinemas as world cinemas
• Examines overlooked and little-known aspects of how Nordic cinemas have been funded, produced, circulated, received, appropriated and re-imagined outside of Scandinavia
• Addresses cinemas of exile, diaspora, migration, emigration and immigration
• Integrates examples of early and silent cinema, popular cinema, art cinema, documentary, shorts, experimental film, expanded media, the avant-garde, video art, music videos, ethnography, television and digital representation
• Engages with questions of colonialism, gender, multi-lingualism, inter- and cross-cultural representation, film practice in the diaspora and visual anthropology
• Engages with Indigenous cinemas of the North

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.

Contributors

• Julie K. Allen, Brigham Young University
• Linda Badley, Middle Tennessee State University
• Ana Bento-Ribeiro, Paris Nanterre University
• Benjamin Bigelow, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
• Mats Bjorkin, University of Gothenburg
• Ib Bondebjerg, University of Copenhagen
• Patrick Ellis, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Kim Khavar Fahlstedt, Uppsala University
• Annie Fee, University of Oslo
• Saniya Lee Ghanoui, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Mette Hjort, Hong Kong Baptist University
• Ingrid S. Holtar, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
• Gunnar Iversen, Carleton University
• Lill-Ann Körber, Aarhus University
• Mariah Larsson, Linnaeus University
• Anneli Lehtisalo, University of Tampere
• Arne Lunde, UCLA
• Scott MacKenzie, Queen’s University
• Björn Nordfjörd, St. Olaf College
• Eva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen
• Anna Westerstahl Stenport, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Emil Stjernholm, Lund University
• Troy Storfjell, Pacific Lutheran University
• C. Claire Thomson, University College London
• Casper Tybjerg, University of Copenhagen
• Boel Ulfsdotter, University of Gothenburg
• Ann-Kristin Wallengren, Lund University
• Patrick Wen, UCLA
• Lynn R. Wilkinson, University of Texas at Austin