Syllabus/achievement requirements

Primary texts (films):

Andersson, Roy: Songs from the Second Floor (S?nger fr?n andra v?ningen) (2000)

Jensen, Knut Erik: Cool and Crazy (Heftig og begeistret) (2001)

Johnsen, Sara: Upperdog (2009)

Kaurism?ki, Aki: The Man without a Past (Mies vailla menneisyytt?) (2002)

Leth, J?rgen & Lars von Trier: The Five Obstructions (De fem bensp?nd) (2003)

Lien, Jens: The Bothersome Man (Den brysomme mannen) (2006)

Metz, Janus: Armadillo (2011)

Olin, Margreth: Raw Youth (Ungdommens r?skap) (2004)

Poppe, Erik: Troubled Water (DeUsynlige) (2008)

Robsahm, Thomas et al.: Utopia ¨C Nobody is Perfect in the Perfect Country (Folk flest bor i Kina) (2002)

Trier, Joachim: Reprise (Reprise) (2006)

?vredal, Andr¨¦. The Troll Hunter (Trolljegeren) (2010)

Articles

(articles marked with an asterisk are in the course reader):

Bordwell, David & Kristin Thompson. "Ch. 8: Documentary". In: Film Art: An Introduction. 7th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill 2004: 128-46.*

Dancus, Adriana Margareta. "Film and Pathoscapes: A Study of Upperdog (Sara Johnsen, 2009)". In: Per Thomas Andersen (ed.): Acta Nordica. Globalization in Literature. Oslo: Fagbokforlaget 2014: 215-225.*

Hjort, Mette. ¡±From Epiphanic Culture to Circulation: The Dynamics of Globalization in Nordic Cinema¡±. In: Andrew Nestingen and Trevor G. Elkington (eds.): Transnational Cinema in a Global North, Nordic Cinema in Transition. Detroit: Wayne State University Press 2005: 191-218.*

Iversen, Gunnar. ¡°The Old Wave: Material History in Cool and Crazy and the New Norwegian Documentary¡±. In: Claire Thomson (ed.): Northern Constellations. New Readings in Nordic Cinema. Norwich: Norvik Press 2006: 175-88.*

Lindqvist, Ursula. "Roy Andersson¡¯s Cinematic Poetry and The Specter of C¨¦sar Vallejo". Scandinavian-Canadian Studies / Etudes scandinaves au Canada. 19(Special issue on Nordic cinema)2010: 200-229.

Nestingen, Andrew. ¡°The Home and the Container¡±. In: Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia. Fiction, Film, and Social change. Seattle: University of Washington Press 2008: 140-53.*

Oxfeldt, Elisabeth. "Literary Intertextuality in Harald Rosenl?w Eeg and Erik Poppe's deUSYNLIGE. Edda 1/10: 64-80

Ponech, Trevor. "Work and Play: The 5-0 Game". In: Mette Hjort (ed.): Dekalog. On the Five Obstructions. London: Wallflower 2008: 76-94.*

Rees, Ellen. ¡°Personal Ideology and Collective Cinema: Folk flest bor i Kina and Contemporary Norwegian Political Consciousness¡±. In: Claire Thomson (ed.): Northern Constellations. New Readings in Nordic Cinema. Norwich: Norvik Press 2006: 97-110.*

Rees, Ellen. ¡°Norwave: Norwegian Cinema 1997-2006¡±. Scandinavian-Canadian Studies / ?tudes Scandinaves au Canada Vol. 19 (2010): 88-110.*

Rees, Ellen. ¡°Trolls, Monster Masts, and National Neurosis: Andr¨¦ ?vredal¡¯s The Troll Hunter.¡± Scandinavica - International Journal of Scandinavian Studies 50.2 (2011):  52- 62

Schepelern, Peter. ¡°Film according to Dogma: Ground Rules, Obstacles, and Liberations¡±. In: Andrew Nestingen and Trevor G. Elkington (eds.): Transnational Cinema in a Global North, Nordic Cinema in Transition. Detroit: Wayne State University Press 2005: 73-107.*

Sim, Gerald. "A Gray Zone between Documentary and Fiction: Interview with Janus Metz". Film Quarterly. 1/2011: 17-24.

Soila, Tytti, Astrid S?derbergh Widding and Gunnar Iversen. ¡° Film Production as a National Project¡±. Introduction to: Nordic National Cinemas. London: Routledge 1998: 1-6.*

Sontag, Susan. "In Plato's Cave". In: On Photography. New York: Anchor Books Doubleday 1990: 3-24.*