Skandinavisk film- och mediekultur

Bell, Emma. "The Passions of Lars von Trier: Madness, Femininity, Film." In Claire Thomson (ed.) Northern Constellations: New Readings in Nordic Cinema. Norvik: Norwich, 2006. (pdf)

Berggren, Henrik and Lars Trädgårdh. ”Pippi Longstocking: The Autonomous Child and the Moral Logic of the Swedish Welfare State.” In Swedish Modernism. Architecture, Consumption and the Welfare State, edited by Helena Mattson and Sven-Olov Wallenstein, 50–65. London: Black Dog Publishings, 2010. (pdf)

Brodén, Daniel. "The Dark Ambivalences of the Welfare State: Investigating the

Transformations of the Swedish Crime Film." Northern Lights 9 (2011): 95–109.

doi: 10.1386/nl.9.95_1

Brodén, Daniel. "Something Happened, but What?." in Demker M., Leffler Y., Sigurdson O. (eds) Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. (pdf)

Dancus, Adriana Margareta. "Trollism, Reality Hunger, and Vulnerability. Trolls in film and literature in the 2000’s" European Journal of Scandinavian Studies, vol. 46, no. 2, 2016, pp. 250-269. https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2016-0022

Goss, Brian Michael. "REBEL YELL: The politics of The Celebration/Festen (1998)." Studies in European Cinema 6 (2009): 215-227. DOI: 10.1386/seci.6.2-3.215/1

Harvard, Jonas and Peter Stadius. "A Communicative Perspective on the Formation of the North: Contexts, Channels, And Concepts." In Communicating the North: Media Structures and Images in the Making of the Nordic Region edited by Harvard & Stadius, Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. 1-24.

Higson, Andrew. “The Concept of National Cinema.” Screen, 4 (1989): 36–47.

Hjort & Lindqvist (eds.) A Companion to Nordic Cinema, Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2016.

http://ebookcentral.proquest.com.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/lib/GU/detail.action?docID=4461559

(selected chapters, ca 250 pages)

Holmlund, Chris. Gräns (Border, dir. Ali Abbasi, 2018) and borders: transnational ties, Nordic roots, Swedish knowledge in critical reception, Transnational Screens, 12 (2021): 150-168, DOI: 10.1080/25785273.2021.1976467

Janson, Malena (red.). Swedish Children’s Cinema : History, Ideology and Aesthetics. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. (selected chapters, ca 150 pages)

Jansson, Maria. "The quality of gender equality: gender quotas and Swedish film governance." International Journal of Cultural Policy 25 (2019): 218-231. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2016.1248952

Kokkola, L., Palo, A., & Manderstedt, L. Protest and apology in the arctic: Enacting citizenship in two recent Swedish films. Humanities, 8 (2019), 49. https://doi.org/10.3390/h8010049

Meir, Christopher, “Localizing global platforms in Scandinavia and globalizing Scandinavian popular cinema: Netflix, SF Studios and the contemporary Nordic film industries,” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 2 (2024): 107-126.

Rees, Ellen. "Norwave: Norwegian Cinema 1997-2006." Scandinavian - Canadian Studies 19 (2010): 88-110. http://scancan.net/pdf/rees_1_19.pdf

Tavares, Hannah M. “A prelude to postcolonial cultural histories of education: “reading” Amanda Kernell’s Sami Blood,” Paedagogica Historica 58 (2021): 504–24. DOI: 10.1080/00309230.2020.1856150

Van Belle, Jono. “The everyday life of Auteurs du Cinema: The reception of Ingmar Bergman and his films,” Participation 2(2018): 135-153.

Waade, Anne Marit. "Melancholy in Nordic noir: Characters, landscapes, light and music." Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies 12 (2017): 380–394. DOI: 10.1177/1749602017729629

Wright, Rochelle. "'Immigrant Film' in Sweden at the Millennium," in Andrew Nestingen and Trevor G. Elkington (eds.) Transnational Cinema in a Global North: Nordic Cinema in Transition. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. (pdf)

Recommended reading for those interested in reading more:

Journal of Scandinavian Cinema is available via UB.

Agger, Gunhild. "Emotion, Gender and Genre: Investigating The Killing." Northern Lights 9 (2011): 111–125. DOI: 10.1386/nl.9.111_1

Bengtsson, Bengt. "Youth Problem Films in the Post-War Years." in Mariah Larsson and Anders Marklund (eds.) Swedish Film, An Introduction and Reader, Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2010. (pdf)

Donnar, Glen. "Male Anxiety, Inadequacy and Victimhood: Insecure and Immature Men in Recent Norwegian Cinema." Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 5 (2015): 155–168. doi: 10.1386/jsca.5.2.155_1

Mulari, Heta. "Transnational Heroines: Swedish Youth Film and Immigrant Girlhood." Frontiers of Screen History: Imagining European Borders in Cinema, 1945-2010. Bristol: Intellect, 2013, 195-216.

Pulsifer, Rebecah. "Trolling Humanism: New Materialist Performativity in Border." Gender Forum 71 (2019): 7-22. http://genderforum.org/new-feminist-materialism-and-queer-studies-in-the-anthropocene/

Sundet, Vilde Schanke. ”From ’secret’ online teen drama to international cult phenomenon: The global expansion of SKAM and its public service mission.” Critical Studies in Television 1(2020): 69-90.

https://doi-org.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/10.1177/1749602019879856

Åberg, Anders. "Conceptions of Nation and Ethnicity in Swedish Children's Films." Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society 5, no. 2 (2013): 92-107. DOI:10.3167/jemms.2013.050207