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Title

Northern constellations : new readings in Nordic cinema / edited by C. Claire Thomson.

Publication

Norwich : Norvik Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors

Thomson, C. Claire

Description

245 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Northern Constellations bears witness to the fertile interdisciplinarity and maturity of the discipline of film studies, and celebrates the diversity and dynamism of film-making in the Nordic world. It should appeal to the general cinema-goer as well as to film scholars and students. The volume includes black-and-white illustrations, and each chapter is supported by bibliographical references."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Norvik Press series A ; no. 26

Uniform Title

Series A (Norvik Press) ; no. 26.

Subject

Motion pictures > Scandinavia > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Starry constellations and icy fractals: reading Nordic films past and present / C. Claire Thomson -- Mastering the house: performative inhabitation in Carl Th. Dreyer's The Parson's Widow / Mark Sandberg -- On the transmigration of images: flesh, spirit and Haptic vision in Dreyer's Jeanne d'Arc and von Trier's Golden Heart trilogy / Bodil Marie Thomsen -- Bodies in elevators: the conveyance of ethnicity in recent Swedish films / Amanda Doxtater -- Local cinema: indexical realism and thirdspace in Blue Collar White Christmas by Max Kestner / Britta Timm Knudsen -- Personal ideology and collective cinema: Folk flest bor i Kina and contemporary Norwegian political consciousness / Ellen Rees -- Gifts, games, and cheek: counter-globalisation in a privileged small-nation context. The case of the Five Obstructions / Mette Hjort -- 'Do you remember Monrépos?': melancholia, modernity and working-class masculinity in The Man WIthout a Past / Anu Koivunen -- Incense in the snow: topologies of intimacy and interculturality in Frioriksson's Cold Fever and Gondry's Jóga / C. Claire Thomson -- The old wave: material history in Cool and Crazy and the New Norwegian Documentary / Gunnar Iversen -- Ibsen, Lagerlö̈f, Sjöström and Terje Vigen: (inter)nationalism, (inter)subjectivity and the interface between Swedish silent cinema and Scandinavian literature / Bjarne Thorup Thomsen -- The passions of Lars von Trier: madness, femininity, film / Emma Bell -- Politics of the auteurial subject: time, narrative and intertextuality in Scenes From a Marriage and Faithless / Sharon Lin Tay.

ISBN

• 1870041631 (pbk.)
• 9781870041638

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