Syllabus/achievement requirements

Chaudhuri, Shohini: Contemporary World Cinema, 2005. Chap. 1: Introduction (p. 1 – 14), Chap. 2: European Cinema (p. 14 – 34), Chap. 3. Scandinavian Cinema (p. 34 – 54) .

Cowie, Peter: Cool and Crazy. Modern Norwegian Cinema 1990 - 2005, Norwegian Film Institute. (90 p.).

Bondebjerg, Ib & Novrup Redval, Eva : A Small Region in a Global World. Patterns in Scandinavian Film and TV Culture, 2011. (125 p.). PDF here.

Agger, Gunhild: Scandinavian crime fiction, mediatization and cultural citizenchip, (12 p.). PDF here.

Agger, Gunhild: Approaches to Scandinavian crime fiction , PDF here.

Compendium II (this is the same compendium as used for MEVIT3526.) It is called: 'Kompendium 2 MEVIT3526 - Alternativ film'

Bordwell, David (2001) “An Analytical Essay”, in David Bordwell (2001); Film Viewers, New York: McGraw-Hill. (p 17-33)

Geiger, Jeffrey & R.L Rutsky (2005) “Introduction”, in Jeffrey Geiger & R. L. Rutsky (red.) Film Analysis, New York: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 17-40)

Optional: Andersson, Lars G. & Hedling, ErikANDERSSON, (1999) “Att analysera film”, i Lars Gustaf Andersson og Erik Hedling Filmanalys. En introduktion, Lund: Studentlitteratur, (p. 7-11)

Elsaesser, Thomas & Buckland, Warren (2002) “Film theory, methods, analysis”, in Thomas Elsaesser og Warren Buckland (2002): Studying American Film. A Guide to Movie Analysis, London: Hodder Arnold (p. 1-25)

Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin (2008) “Film Criticism: Sample Analyses”, in Film Art. An Introduction, 8th ed., New York: McGraw-Hill. (p. 384-410)

Naficy, Hamid (2005) “Questioning Reality, Realism, and Neorealism”, in Jeffrey Geiger og R. L. Rutsky (red.) Film Analysis, New York: W. W. Norton & Company. (p. 795-812)

Total ca 575 p

In addition the following articles will be made available for copying:

Peter Scepelern (2004) ”Postwar Scandinavian Cinema” in Elisabeth Ezra (2004) European Cinema, Oxford Univ. Press, (p. 139 – 157)

Engelstad, Audun: (2011): ”Dealing with crime: cyclic changes in Norwegian crime films”, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, vol.1 nr 2. (p 205 – 221)

Rees, Ellen (2006) ”Personal Ideology and Collective Cinema: Folk flest bor i Kina and Contemporary Norwegian Political Consciousness” in C. Clair Thompson (2006): Northern Constellations. New Readings in Nordic Cinema. Norvik Press. (p. 97 – 111)

Iversen, Gunnar (2006): ”The Old Wave: Material History in Cool and Crazy and the New Norwegian Documentary” in C. Clair Thompson (2006): Northern Constellations. New Readings in Nordic Cinema. Norvik Press. (p. 175 – 193)

Peter Schepelern (2010): ”The element of crime and punishment: Aki Kaurism?ki, Lars von Trier and the traditions of Nordic cinema”, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, vol 1 nr 1. (p. 87 – 103)

Larsson Mariah (2010) ”Art Cinema, Auteurs and the Art Cinema ’Institutuion’. Introduction” in Mariah Larsson & Anders Marklund (2010): Swedish Film. An Introduction and Reader, Nordic Academic Press. (p. 216 – 219)

Hedling, Erik (2010): ”Ingmar Bergman and Modernity” ” in Mariah Larsson & Anders Marklund (2010): Swedish Film. An Introduction and Reader, Nordic Academic Press. (p. 219 – 226).

Schepelern, Peter (2005) ”Film according to Dogma: Ground Rules, Obstacles, and Liberations” in Nestingen, Andrew & Elkington Trevor G. (2005): Transnational Cinema in a Global North. Nordic Cinema in Transition, Wayne State Univ. Press. (p. 73 – 111)

Stiegel, J?rgen (2001): ”Aesthetics of the Moment in Television. Actualisation in Time and Space” in Gunhild Agger & Jens F. Jensen (2001) The Aesthetics of Television, Aalborg Univ. Press. (p. 25 – 53)

Agger, Gunhild (2001): ”National Cinema and TV Fiction in a Transnational Age” in Gunhild Agger & Jens F. Jensen (2001) The Aesthetics of Television, Aalborg Univ. Press. (p. 53 – 89)

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