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A Visual History of HIV/AIDS : Exploring the Face of AIDS Film Archive
- 2019
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Face of AIDS film archive at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, consists of more than 700 hours of unedited and edited footage, shot over a period of more than thirty years and all over the world by filmmaker and journalist Staffan Hildebrand. The material documents the HIV/AIDS pandemic and includes scenes from conferences and rallies, and interviews with activists, physicians, people with the infection, and researchers. It represents a global historical development from the early years of the AIDS crisis to a situation in which it is possible to live a normal life with the HIV virus. This volume brings together a range of academic perspectives – from media and film studies, medical history, gender studies, history, and cultural studies – to bear on the archive, shedding light on memories, discourses, trauma, and activism.Using a medical humanities framework, the editors explore the influence of historical representations of HIV/AIDS and stigma in a world where antiretroviral treatment has fundamentally altered the conditions under which many people diagnosed with HIV live. Organized into four sections, this book begins by introducing the archive and its role, setting it in a global context. The first part looks at methodological, legal and ethical issues around archiving memories of the present which are then used to construct histories of the past; something that can be particularly controversial when dealing with a socially stigmatized epidemic such as HIV/AIDS. The second section is devoted to analyses of particular films from the archive, looking at the portrayal of people living with HIV/AIDS, the narrative of HIV as a chronic illness and the contemporary context of particular films. The third section looks at how stigma and trauma are negotiated in the material in the Face of AIDS film archive, discussing ideas about suffering and culpability. The final section contributes perspectives on and by the filmmaker as activist and auteur.This interdisciplinary collection is placed at the intersection of medical humanities, sexuality studies and film and media studies, continuing a tradition of studies on the cultural and social understandings of HIV/AIDS.
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- Björklund, Elisabet, 1983-, et al.
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Editorial
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Ingår i: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. - : Intellect Ltd.. - 2042-7891 .- 2042-7905. ; 5:2, s. 75-80
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Björklund, Elisabet, 1983-, et al.
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Editorial
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. - : Intellect Ltd.. - 2042-7891 .- 2042-7905. ; 5:2, s. 75-80
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- Björklund, Elisabet, 1983-, et al.
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Film och historia : exemplet Erik Hedling
- 2020
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Ingår i: Historiska fiktioner. - Stockholm : Carlsson Bokförlag. - 9789189063310 ; , s. 9-23
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- Björklund, Elisabet, 1983-, et al.
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Introduction : Beyond Swedish Summers
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Ingår i: Swedish Cinema and the Sexual Revolution. - jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland. - 9781476665443 - 9781476625010 ; , s. 1-7
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Björklund, Elisabet, 1983-, et al.
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Introduction
- 2019
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Ingår i: A Visual History of HIV/AIDS. - Abingdon & New York : Routledge. - 9781138503243 - 9781315145310 ; , s. 1-13
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Björklund, Elisabet, 1983-
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'Mom might have a job (or be socializing too much!)' : 'The right to love', children’s sexuality and parenthood
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. - : Intellect Ltd.. - 2042-7891 .- 2042-7905. ; 7:1, s. 13-25
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Having been unavailable for many years, the Swedish film Rätten att älska (‘The right to love’) was restored by the Swedish Film Institute in 2013 and made accessible for research. In many ways a typical example of the sex education film genre of its time, the film is simultaneously unusual because it deals with children’s sexuality. This article explores and discusses the representation of children in the film in relation to how it connects to issues of parenthood.
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- Björklund, Elisabet, 1983-
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Realism or 'grotesque cliches'? : Jan Halldoff's The Corridor and the Swedish debate on abortion in the 1960s
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. - : Intellect Ltd.. - 2042-7891 .- 2042-7905. ; 9:1, s. 117-130
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Swedish filmmaker Jan Halldoff's fiction film Korridoren (The Corridor) premiered in 1968 to a mainly positive Swedish reception. Shot at Karolinska Hospital and criticizing the Swedish healthcare system, the film became much debated and can furthermore be seen as a turning point in Swedish film history regarding the portrayal of medical institutions and professionals. In this article, the film and its reception are analysed in relation to the Swedish debate on abortion at the time. While the film is clearly critical of Swedish welfare society, the way it depicts abortion is more conservative. Highlighting this as well as the role of actual medical professionals in the film, the article demonstrates how the film relates to representations of abortion in the past and discusses connections between the film industry and medicine at this historical moment.
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- Björklund, Elisabet, 1983-
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The Limits of Sexual Depictions in the Late 1960s
- 2016
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Ingår i: Swedish Cinema and the Sexual Revolution. - Jefferson, NC : McFarland. - 9781476665443 - 9781476625010 ; , s. 126-138
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- Björklund, Elisabet, 1983-
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The Most Delicate Subject : A History of Sex Education Films in Sweden
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this dissertation is to present a history of sex education films in Sweden, from their beginnings until the late 1970s, relating the films to the changing historical context of the Swedish welfare society. Within this framework, the dissertation explores two main sets of questions. First, utilizing a contextual understanding of genre, the dissertation analyzes how the films were produced, exhibited, and censored, what position and status they had, and where the borders were understood to be to kindred types of film, such as exploitation and pornography. Second, the norms and ideas about sexuality that the films construct are explored from a social constructionist perspective and put in historical context. Apart from the films themselves, the material used consists of censorship records, archival material, and articles and reviews from the daily press and the trade press.The study demonstrates that the sex education film has always been a delicate genre, and that this delicacy is related to the medium and to the fact that cinema is part of the commercial market. The sex education film came to Sweden through imported films during the silent era and was relatively common at Swedish movie theaters from the 1920s to the early 1970s. Very quickly, it became a contested genre thought to be in need of regulation, which can be seen in the censorship procedures. For instance, until the 1950s, screenings were often restricted through gender segregation. When film censorship was liberalized in the 1960s, sex education films could show more than before, and when the films in the sexually explicit Language of Love series (1969–1972) were released, their relationship to pornography became a central point of discussion. The changing views on using film in school sex education are also examined. Here, it is shown that if film was seen as a potentially helpful tool in the 1920s and 1930s, this view had changed into a more skeptical position by the early 1970s.In the analysis of the content of the films, only Swedish examples are studied. In the first group of theatrically shown films of this kind, which appeared in the 1940s and 1950s, sexuality is represented as problematic through the themes of venereal disease and abortion. Here, casual sex is seen as immoral and abortion is condemned. At the same time, the films display how traditional and modern views on sexuality and gender were under negotiation during this period. While reproduction was the dominating perspective in school films well into the 1970s, the Language of Love films display a radically different perspective on sex, not least because of their focus on sexual pleasure. However, while the films advocate a liberal idea about sexuality according to which science leads to liberation, a focus on romantic long-term relationships can also be noted. Throughout the period, there is an emphasis on rationality and science and on a secular perspective on sex in which love is seen as more important than matrimony. In this way, the films in general reflect a strong belief in modernity and progress that was characteristic of Sweden during the welfare era.
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- Björklund, Elisabet, 1983-
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"This Is a Dirty Movie" : Taxi Driver and "Swedish Sin"
- 2011
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Ingår i: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. - : Intellect Ltd.. - 2042-7891 .- 2042-7905. ; 1:2, s. 163-176
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines a well-known sequence in Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film Taxi Driver in which the main character Travis Bickle takes his date Betsy to the movies and convinces her to see a Swedish sex education film. The article analyses the representation of Swedish cinema and Swedish sexuality in Taxi Driver, but also discusses the short sequence from a Swedish perspective, revealing a contemporary popular Swedish misconception about it. For this purpose, the sequence as well as the subsequent Swedish interpretation of it are contextualized and considered in relation to the widespread notion of ‘Swedish sin’.
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- Björklund, Elisabet, 1983-
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Å lære seg kjærlighetens språk : om svensk seksualopplysningsfilm på kino på 60- og 70-tallet
- 2013
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Ingår i: Z filmtidsskrift. - Oslo : Norsk filmklubbforbund. - 0800-1464 .- 0807-271X. ; :2
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Den mest kjente svenske seksualopplysningsfilmen er uten tvil Ur kärlekens språk fra 1969. Zs skribent plasserer filmen og dens oppfølgere i sin samtid og ser også filmene i lys av en lengre tradisjon av svensk seksualopplysningsfilm.
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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-, et al.
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Introduction
- 2018
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Ingår i: A Visual History of HIV/AIDS. - London & New York : Routledge. - 9781138503243 - 9781315145310 ; , s. 1-13
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