THE CINEMA OF SCANDINAVIA

This volume in the 24 Frames series focuses on 24 key films from Scandinavia – Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. Each national cinema is able to boast directors of worldwide renown, such as Ingmar Bergman, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Victor Sjöstrom and more contemporary filmmakers such as Lukas Moodysson, Aki Kaurismäki and the co-founders of the Dogme 95 movement, Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg and Soren Kragh-Jacobsen. This book deals with the impact that these and other filmmakers have had on both their national cinema as well as the world of film and looks in detail at the styles, movements and influences from this region. Includes detailed coverage of a wide range of films including Operation Swallow (1948), The Unknown Soldier (1955), Ebba the Movie (1982), The Idiots (1998) and Ballroom Blitz (2001).

June 2005
288 pages

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Tytti Soila is Head of the Department of Cinema Studies at Stockholm University. She is the co-editor of Nordic National Cinemas (1998).

'The Cinema of Scandinavia offers insights with both scholarly acumen, and a respectful approach to Scandinavian cinema … It is an important book that clarifies and illuminates the state of Scandinavian cinema, and makes a genuine contribution to the field of cinema studies.’
Jarmo Valkola, University of Jyväskylä

‘Gives a more broad and varied account of Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and Finnish films than any other internationally published volume before it.'
Erik Hedling, Lund University

‘The book is accessible yet expert, broad yet detailed, useful yet delightful … A necessary, useful, and excellent book.’
Andrew Nestingen, University of Washington