Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books:

Gustafsson, Tommy and Pietari K??p? (eds) (2018, paperback): Nordic Genre Film: Small Nation Film Cultures in the Global Marketplace. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (introduction found here: http://www.euppublishing.com/userimages/ContentEditor/1434029230382/Nordic%20Film%20Genre.pdf)

Lindqvist, Ursula (2016): Roy Andersson’s “Songs From the Second Floor”: Contemplating the Art of Existence. University of Washington Press. 

Handout

Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier (2014) Louder than Bombs (manuscript) 

Online articles:

Vilde Schanke Sundet "From secret online teen drama to international cult phenomenon: The global expansion of SKAM and its public service mission", in R. McCulloch & W. Proctor (eds.) The Scandinavian Invasion: The Nordic Noir Phenomenon and Beyond (tentative title). Oxford: Peter Lang. 

Steffen Krüger and Gry C. Rustad "Coping with Shame in a Media-saturated Society: Norwegian Web-series Skam as Transitional Object" Television & New Media

Anne Marit Waade: ”Nordic Noir Production Values. The Killing and The Bridge”. In akademisk kvarter/academic quarter

Anne Marit Waade: ”Melancholy in Nordic Noir: Characters, landscapes, light and music”. In Critical Studies in Television 

Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen: ”Nordic Noir in the UK: the allure of accessible difference”. In Journal of Aesthetics & Culture

Kristín Loftsdóttir, Katla Kjartansdóttir & Katrín Anna Lund: ”Trapped in clichés: masculinity, films and tourism in Iceland” In Gender, Place & Culture 

Susanne Eichner & Lotar Mikos: ”The Export of Nordic Stories. The International Success of Scandinavian TV Drama Series". In Nordiciom Information 

In Journal of Scandinavian Cinema:

Moffat, Kate “From imperfect strangers to new citizens: Screening race and ethnicity in Nordic film history” 

Audun Engelstad: ”Dealing with crime: cyclic changes in Norwegian crime films”

Brodén, Daniel “Old-school modernism? On the cinema of Roy Andersson” 

Brunow, Dagmar “The language of the complex image: Roy Andersson’s political aesthetics” 

Iversen, Gunnar “An alternative digital film culture: The new independent Norwegian film production” 

Hansen, Kim Toft “Creativity, protest, training: Three modes of independent film-making in Denmark” 

Larsson, Mariah “Ingmar Bergman, Swedish sexploitation and early Swedish porn” 

Schaefer, Eric “Hardcore education: The case of Sexual Freedom in Denmark” 

Grodal, Torben “Two Nordic existential comedies: Smiles of a Summer Night and The Kingdom” 

Badley, Linda “Antichrist, misogyny and witch burning: The Nordic cultural contexts” 

Grodal, Torben “Frozen style and strong emotions of panic and separation: Trier's prologues to Antichrist and Melancholia” 

Donnar, Glen “Male anxiety, inadequacy and victimhood: Insecure and immature men in recent Norwegian cinema” 

Stigsdotter, Ingrid “‘When to push stop or play’: The Swedish reception of Ruben ?stlund’s Play (2011)” 

Iversen, Gunnar “From trauma to heroism: Cultural memory and remembrance in Norwegian occupation dramas, 1946–2009” 

Solum, Ove “The municipal cinema system in Norway and the digital turn” 

Sepp?l?, Jaakko “Doing a lot with little: The camera’s minimalist point of view in the films of Aki Kaurism?ki” 

Schepelern, Peter “The element of crime and punishment: Aki Kaurism?ki, Lars von Trier and the traditions of Nordic cinema” 

Elsaesser, Thomas “Hitting bottom: Aki Kaurism?ki and the abject subject” 

Wright, Rochelle “Vampire in the Stockholm suburbs: Let the Right One In and genre hybridity” 

Published Nov. 23, 2017 9:49 AM - Last modified Mar. 2, 2018 2:28 PM