Northern Constellations
New Readings in Nordic Cinema
Published on 14. May 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-1-870041-63-8 (ISBN)
Description
What happens when a camera gets trapped in a Swedish elevator, or when the body of the tourist meets the snow of an Icelandic winter? How is Lars von Trier re-working Carl Th. Dreyer's images of flesh and spirit for a digital age? How can filmic space re-negotiate local, national, and global forms of belonging? "Northern Constellations" features interventions from leading cinema studies scholars and Scandinavian specialists from the UK, the US and the Nordic world. Engaging with contemporary film and cultural theory - particularly on affect, embodiment, memory, place, interculturality, and realism - the essays explore the potential of cinema to map space, body, and community. Older Nordic classics by Carl Th. Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman and Victor Sjostrom are re-interpreted in constellation with the themes and concerns of established and emerging contemporary filmmakers, including Lars von Trier, Aki Kaurismaki, Liv Ullmann, Friethrik Thornor Friethriksson, Suzanne Taslimi and Max Kestner.
As the seventh art forges on towards its second century, "Northern Constellations" bears witness to the fertile interdisciplinarity and maturity of the discipline of film studies, and celebrates the diversity and dynamism of film-making in the Nordic world. It should appeal to the general cinema-goer as well as to film scholars and students. The volume includes black-and-white illustrations, and each chapter is supported by bibliographical references.
As the seventh art forges on towards its second century, "Northern Constellations" bears witness to the fertile interdisciplinarity and maturity of the discipline of film studies, and celebrates the diversity and dynamism of film-making in the Nordic world. It should appeal to the general cinema-goer as well as to film scholars and students. The volume includes black-and-white illustrations, and each chapter is supported by bibliographical references.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Norwich
United Kingdom
Illustrations
8 b/w
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-870041-63-8 (9781870041638)
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C. Claire Thomson is UCL Mellon Research Fellow (2004-2006) at University College London.
Content
Introduction. Starry Constellations and Icy Fractals: Reading Nordic Films Past and Present (C. Claire Thomson); Mastering the House: Performative Inhabitation in Carl Th. Dreyer's The Parson's Widow (Mark Sandberg); On the Transmigration of Images: Flesh, Spirit and Haptic Vision in Dreyer's Jeanne d'Arc and von Trier's Golden Heart Trilogy (Bodil Marie Thomsen); Bodies in Elevators: The Conveyance of Ethnicity in Recent Swedish Films (Amanda Doxtater); Local Cinema: Indexical Realism and Thirdspace in Blue Collar White Christmas by Max Kestner (Britta Timm Knudsen); Personal Ideology and Collective Cinema: Folk flest bor i Kina and Contemporary Norwegian Political Consciousness (Ellen Rees); Gifts, Games, and Cheek: Counter-Globalisation in a Privileged Small-Nation Context. The Case of The Five Obstructions (Mette Hjort); 'Do You Remember Monrepos?': Melancholia, Modernity and Working-Class Masculinity in The Man Without A Past (Anu Koivunen); Incense in the Snow: Topologies of Intimacy and Interculturality in Friethriksson's Cold Fever and Gondry's Joga (C. Claire Thomson); The Old Wave: Material History in Cool and Crazy and the New Norwegian Documentary (Gunnar Iversen); Ibsen, Lagerlof, Sjostrom and Terje Vigen: (Inter)nationalism, (Inter)subjectivity and the Interface between Swedish Silent Cinema and Scandinavian Literature (Bjarne Thorup Thomsen); The Passions of Lars von Trier: Madness, Femininity, Film (Emma Bell); Politics of the Auteurial Subject: Time, Narrative and Intertextuality in Scenes From a Marriage and Faithless (Sharon Lin Tay); Index