Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction: Nordic Cinema: Breaking New Waves since the Dawn of Film 1Mette Hjort and Ursula Lindqvist
Part I States of Cinema: Nordic Film Policy 13
Introduction 15Mette Hjort and Ursula Lindqvist
1 Regional and Global Dimensions of Danish Film Culture and Film Policy 19Ib Bondebjerg
2 Developing a Bhutanese Film Sector in the Intersection between Gross National Happiness and Danish Guidance 41Nis Grøn
3 Cinema in the Welfare State: Notes on Public Support, Regional Film Funds, and Swedish Film Policy 60Olof Hedling
4 “Education, Enlightenment, and General Propaganda”: Dansk Kulturfilm and Carl Th. Dreyer’s Short Films 78C. Claire Thomson
Part II Making Filmmakers: Models and Values 99
Introduction 101Mette Hjort and Ursula Lindqvist
5 How to Train a Director—Film Schools in the Nordic Countries 105Astrid Söderbergh Widding
6 Non-Fiction Film Culture in Sweden circa 1920–1960: Pragmatic Governance and Consensual Solidarity in a Welfare State 125Mats Jönsson
7 Crossing Borders: Going Transnational with “Danish” Film Training, Capacity Building, and Talent Development 148Mette Hjort
Part III Reeling ’Em In: Spectatorship and Cinephilia 173
Introduction 175Ursula Lindqvist and Mette Hjort
8 The Rise and Fall of Norwegian Municipal Cinemas 179Ove Solum
9 The “Capital of Scandinavia?” Imaginary Cityscapes and the Art of Creating an Appetite for Nordic Cinematic Spaces 199Maaret Koskinen
10 Jörn Donner and the Emergence of a New Film Culture in Postwar Scandinavia 224Kimmo Laine
11 The Formation of a Cinema Audience in Sweden, 1915–1929 242Tommy Gustafsson
Part IV Reinventing the Reel: Transitions and Triumphs 265
Introduction 267Ursula Lindqvist and Mette Hjort
12 Searching for Art’s Promised Land: Nordic Silent Cinema and the Swedish Example 271Casper Tybjerg
13 Aki Kaurismäki—From Punk to Social Democracy 291Andrew Nestingen
14 Swedish Cinema of the 1940s, a New Wave 313Fredrik Gustafsson
15 Between Art and Genre: New Nordic Horror Cinema 332Gunnar Iversen
16 A Tradition of Torturing Women 351Linda Haverty Rugg
Part V Connecting Points: Global Intersections 371
Introduction 373Mette Hjort and Ursula Lindqvist
17 Memories of Cultural Dismemberment: Nils Gaup, Mons Somby, and the Re-Membering of Sámi History 377Wendy Gay Pearson
18 The Scandinavian Colonies of Silent-Era Hollywood 396Arne Lunde
19 Films into Uniform: Dogme 95 and the Last New Wave 417Scott MacKenzie
20 Nordic Remakes in Hollywood: Reconfiguring Originals and Copies 436Anna Westerståhl Stenport
21 The Global Distribution of Swedish Silent Film 457Laura Horak
Part VI The Eye of Industry: Practitioner’s Agency 485
Introduction 487Ursula Lindqvist and Mette Hjort
22 The Writing of Television Drama: Issues of Creative Collaboration and Authorship in Danish Writers’ Rooms 491Eva Novrup Redvall
23 Universal Aspirations and Ecocosmopolitan Rhetoric: The Finnish Ecodocumentary 510Pietari Kääpä
24 The Emergence of a Tradition in Icelandic Cinema: From Children of Nature to Volcano 529Björn Nordfjörd
25 The Art of Not Telling Stories in Nordic Fiction Films 547Ursula Lindqvist
26 The Death of Porn? An Autopsy of “Scandinavian Sin” in the Twenty-first Century 566Mariah Larsson
Appendix 589
Index 591