Films:
Trier, Lars von: The Five Obstructions (De fem bensp?nd, 2003) (DVD)
Skjoldbj?rg, Eirik: An Enemy of the People (En folkefiende, 2005) (DVD)
Trier, Joachim: Reprise (2006) (DVD)
Bier, Susanne: In a Better World (H?vnen, 2010) (DVD)
Vinterberg, Thomas: The Hunt (Jagten, 2012) (DVD)
Haq, Iram: What Will People Say (Hva vil folk si, 2017) (DVD will be made available)
Kaurism?ki, Aki: The Other Side of Hope (Toivon tuolla puolen, 2017) (DVD)
?stlund, Ruben: Force Majeure (Turist, 2014) (DVD)
Trotta, Margarethe von. Searching for Ingmar Bergman (2019) (DVD)
Haugerud, Dag Johan: Beware of Children (Barn, 2019) (DVD)
Books;
Bordwell, David, Kristin Thompson and Jeff Smith. 2020. Film Art: An Introduction. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education
Articles in the course reader (kompendium):
Digital course Reader (requires login):
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Bordwell, David. 2002. “The art cinema as a mode of film practice.” In The European Cinema Reader, edited by Catherine Fowler, 94–102. London: Routledge.
Corrigan, Timothy. 2015. “Approaches to Writing about Film.” Chap. 4 of A Short Guide to Writing about Film, 100–125. 9th ed. Essex: Pearson.
Hjort, Mette. 2006. "Gifts, games, and cheek: counter-globalisation in a privileged small-nation context. The case of The five obstructions". In Northern Constellations: New Readings in Nordic Cinema, 111–129. Thomson, Claire (ed.). Norwich: Norvik Press. 2006.
Nestingen, Andrew, and Trevor G. Elkington. “Introduction: Transnational Nordic Cinema." In Transnational Cinema in a Global North: Nordic Cinema in Transition, edited by Andrew Nestingen, and Trevor G. Elkington, 1–16. Detroit: Wayne State University Press 2005: 191-218.
Oxfeldt, Elisabeth. 2016. “The Privileged Human: Global Inequity in J?rgen Leth and Lars von Trier's De fem bensp?nd.” ("The Five Obstructions"). In Perspectives on the Nordic, edited by Bente Larsen, and Jakob Lothe, 55–71. Oslo: Novus Forlag.
Rees, Ellen. 2015. “The Nordic Quirky ‘Feel-Good’”, In Nordic Genre Film: Small Nation Film Cultures in the Global Marketplace, edited by Pietari K??p?, and Tommy Gustavsson, 147–158. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Soila, Tytti, Astrid S?derbergh Widding and Gunnar Iversen. 1998 “Introduction: film production as a national project.” In Nordic National Cinemas, edited by Tytti Soila, Astrid S?derbergh Widding and Gunnar Iversen, 1–6. London: Routledge.
Volquardsen, Ebbe. 2013. “Scandinavia and “the Land of UnSwedish Freedom”. Jonathan Franzen, Susanne Bier and Self-conceptions of Exceptionalism in Crisis.” In Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond: At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism, edited by Kristín Loftsdóttir, and Lars Jensen, 31–50. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Articles published online/in journals accessible via the UiO network:
Agger, Gunhild. 2015. "Strategies in Danish Film Culture – and the Case of Susanne Bier." Kosmorama #259 http://www.kosmorama.org/ServiceMenu/05-English/Articles/Susanne-Bier.aspx
Birkvad, S?ren. 2019. “In search of the antagonist: On inner struggles and soft parental power in Joachim Trier’s films.” In Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 9 (2): 203–210. https://doi.org/10.1386/jsca.9.2.203_1
Engelstad, Audun. 2019. “The concept of time in Joachim Trier’s Reprise.” In Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 9 (2): 197–202. https://doi.org/10.1386/jsca.9.2.197_1
Erkiaga, Luis Sáenz de Viguera. 2018. “Sacrificial victim: taking the nation apart in Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt.” Studies in European Cinema 15 (2–3): 162–179. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2018.1460055
Gjelsvik, Anne. 2019. “Openings and closures. Mental health in Joachim Trier’s cinematic universe”. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 9 (1): 75–88. https://doi.org/10.1386/jsca.9.1.75_1
Gjelsvik, Anne. 2019. “In Focus: Joachim Trier.” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 9 (2): 191-196. https://doi.org/10.1386/jsca.9.2.191_1
Hjort, Mette and Ursula Lindqvist. 2016. A Companion to Nordic Cinema. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118475300
Jerslev, Anne. 2019. “Joachim Trier’s close-ups and autonomous moments.” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 9 (2): 219–225. https://doi.org/10.1386/jsca.9.2.219_1
Moffat, Kate. 2016. “From imperfect strangers to new citizens: Screening race and ethnicity in Nordic film history.” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 6 (3): 225–233. https://doi.org/10.1386/jsca.6.3.225_1
Myrstad, Anne Marit. 2019. “Soft strength, mild mystery: Female characters in the films of Joachim Trier.” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 9 (2): 211–218. https://doi.org/10.1386/jsca.9.2.211_1
Orange, Michelle. 2015. “Broken Contracts: Force Majeure.” Film Comment 51 (1). https://www.filmcomment.com/article/broken-contracts-ruben-ostlund/
Porton, Richard. 2014. “Winter of Discontent: An Interview with Ruben ?stlund.” Cineaste 40 (1): 38–42. https://search.proquest.com/docview/1657784915/fulltextPDF/BD999BD3730D4DD8PQ/
Rees, Ellen. “Norwave: Norwegian Cinema 1997-2006”. Scandinavian-Canadian Studies / ?tudes Scandinaves au Canada Vol. 19 (2010): 88-110. https://www.academia.edu/581339/Norwave_Norwegian_Cinema_1997-2006
Sepp?l?, Jaakko. 2016. “Doing a lot with little: The camera’s minimalist point of view in the films of Aki Kaurism?ki.” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 6 (1): 5–23. https://doi.org/10.1386/jsca.6.1.5_1
Smaill, Belinda. 2014. “The Male Sojourner, the Female Director, and Popular European Cinema: The Worlds of Susanne Bier.” Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 29 (1 (85)): 5–31. http://cameraobscura.dukejournals.org/content/29/1_85/5.abstract
Smith, Greg M. 2001. “'It's Just a Movie': A Teaching Essay for Introductory Media Classes.” Cinema Journal 41 (1): 127–134. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1225569
Tommaso, Tocci. 2019. “A giant fresco on the wall of contemporary life: Barn.” In Montage, https://montagesmagazine.com/2019/09/a-giant-fresco-on-the-wall-of-contemporary-life-barn/
W?rp, Lisbeth Pettersen. 2014. “The play-within-the-film: Peer Gynt in Skjolbj?rg’s En folkefiende (A Public Enemy, 2004)” In Nordlit (34): Ibsen and World Drama(s). https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/issue/view/284
Additional tools/resources:
Bordwell, David. 2016. “Open secrets of classical storytelling: Narrative analysis 101.” David Bordwell's website on cinema, January 11, 2016. http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2016/01/11/open-secrets-of-classical-storytelling-narrative-analysis-101/
YALE FILM STUDIES: Film Analysis: http://filmanalysis.yctl.org