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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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- Arnberg, Klara, et al.
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Benefits of the in-between : Swedish men’s magazines and sex films 1965–1975
- 2014
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Ingår i: Sexuality & Culture. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1095-5143 .- 1936-4822. ; 18:2, s. 310-330
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyzes a content-based market position that developed during the mid-1960s, situated in-between the pornographic and the accepted. By studying Swedish men’s magazines and sex films from the time period, the argument is made that these media products profited from both the advantages of pornography, i.e., more or less sexual explicit images, and the advantages of the accepted, i.e., common distribution channels, the possibility of having regular advertising and placards and being sold in ordinary kiosks (for magazines) and shown at ordinary cinemas (for films). For some years, this balancing act between the accepted and the pornographic was maintained, and the genre became enormously popular. From the mid-1970s onward, however, the division between pornography and accepted media became more clear-cut. The critique against pornography and the in-between media products intensified, and the uncertainty about pornography’s future role after the legalization in 1971 was followed by new ways of separating the pornographic from the accepted. While there were some differences between the two media formats, such as their degree of internationalization and the importance of advertising, they shared much in terms of content formulas and used the same female actors and models. It is argued that both formal regulations and the informal norms of gender and sexuality at the time and their change throughout the 1970s are key for understanding the development and the disappearance of the in-between genre.
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- Björkas, Robin, et al.
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Sex Dolls in the Swedish Media Discourse : Intimacy, Sexuality, and Technology
- 2021
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Ingår i: Sexuality & Culture. - : Springer. - 1095-5143 .- 1936-4822. ; 25, s. 1227-1248
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sex dolls are a complex phenomenon with several diverse possible emotional, sexual and therapeutic uses. They can be part of a broad variety of sexual practices, and also function as a sexual aid. However, the media discourse on sex dolls first and foremost concerns how we perceive the relationship between intimacy and technology. A critical discourse analysis of the Swedish media discourse on sex dolls reveals six themes which dominate the discourse: (a) the definition of what a human being is; (b) a discourse on the (technological and existential) future; (c) a social effort; (d) a loveless phenomenon; (e) men's violence against women; and (f) pedophilia. Accordingly, this discourse is very conservative and normative in its view of sexuality, technology, and humanity. Overall, the dominant themes do not provide any space for positive effects of technology on human sexuality, and if they do, it is usually as a substitute for something else.
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- Björklund, Elisabet, 1983-, et al.
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Introduction : Beyond Swedish Summers
- 2016. - 1
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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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- Gustafsson, Tommy, 1969-, et al.
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Sexual violence, good taste and the education of the cinema audience : Gender and censorship in 1920s Sweden
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. - Bristol : Intellect Ltd.. - 2042-7891 .- 2042-7905. ; 8:3, s. 215-232
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article makes use of records in the archive of Sweden’s National Board of Film Censorship for a discussion of the censorship of visual representations of sex and violence in films by women directors during the 1920s. From the perspective that Swedish film censorship was utilized to educate and control Swedish cinema audiences, not least concerning taste, the question is posed: how did gender and nationality play a role in the assessment of taste? Focusing on three case studies, namely Karin Swanström’s Kalle Utter (1925), Dorothy Arzner’s Manhattan Cocktail (1928) and Olga Preobrazhenskaya’s The Women of Ryazan (1927) and comparing censorship records with reviews in the daily press, the article demonstrates how nation played a role in the assessment of taste and the decisions to cut these films. The analyses also reveal that the censoring of sexual violence had a tendency to diminish acts such as rape and forced kissing in a narrative as well as on a moral level.
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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-
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Bringing Dragons Back Into the World : Dismantling the Anthropocene in Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings
- 2021
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Ingår i: The Enduring Fantastic. - Jefferson, NC : McFarland. - 9781476680125 - 9781476642789 ; , s. 124-139
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings is a vast and sprawling epic fantasy series, consisting of four trilogies and one tetralogy, all taking place in the same world and concerning events surrounding the same part of that fantasy world’s history, namely the return of dragons to the world. Although scholars and critics have focused mainly on the queer potential of one of the series’ main protagonists, the androgynous and gender-ambivalent Beloved or the Fool, the series also very clearly function as a comment on the geological and critical concept of the Anthropocene. The usefulness and correctness of the Anthropocene, referring to the geological epoch when humans make a significant impact on the earth, is debated among both natural scientists and critical humanities scholars. Nonetheless, it has come to be used as an analytical concept for studying how the arts and popular culture reflect, comment on, critique and/or can increase awareness of the impact of human beings on nature and the climate.Hobb’s fantasy world of the Elderlings sheds light on the Anthropocene. One reason for bringing back dragons into the world is so that humans will no longer be at the top of the food chain. In addition, Hobb has created a magic ability called the Wit, giving the character endowed with it communication with animals and a connection with all living things. Focusing mainly on the second trilogy of the series, The Tawny Man, this chapter discusses how Hobbagain and again draws attention to what it means to be human in the world
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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-
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Deep throat
- 2014
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Ingår i: Cultural encyclopedia of the penis. - New York : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. - 9780759123120 - 9780759123144 ; , s. 49-50
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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-
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Deep throat
- 2014
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Ingår i: Cultural encyclopedia of the penis. - New York : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. - 9780759123120 - 9780759123144 ; , s. 49-50
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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-, et al.
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Documentary filmmaking as colonialist propaganda and cinefeminist intervention : Mai Zetterling's Of Seals and Men (1979)
- 2015
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Ingår i: Film History. An International Journal. - : Indiana University Press. - 0892-2160 .- 1553-3905. ; 27:4, s. 106-129
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This essay focuses on UK-based Swedish filmmaker Mai Zetterling’s made-for-television documentary Of Seals and Men (1979). Zetterling is known internationally as an art film auteur, and this examination seeks to broaden her stature in the context of UK and Europe-based cinefeminsim movements of the 1970s. The authors argue that Of Seals and Men constitutes a significant and overlooked artefact also in the history of colonial Greenlandic-Danish relations, as it focuses on the controversy of the Greenlandic seal hunt, and was financed as a propaganda vehicle by the Danish government and the Greenland Trade Department. The article draws on extensive archival research and references Zetterling’s production notebooks and correspondence, as well as official communication by the Royal Greenland Trade Department.
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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-, et al.
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Documenting the present, processing the past, shaping future memory : The Face of AIDS Film Archive
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. - Bristol : Intellect Ltd.. - 2042-7891 .- 2042-7905. ; 7:2, s. 93-98
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Face of AIDS Film Archive consists of documentation of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, shot all over the world beginning in 1988 by Swedish filmmaker and journalist Staffan Hildebrand. In this article, the archive’s particular characteristic of process is discussed and examined through four different perspectives: first, as an ongoing documentation of HIV/AIDS in the contemporaneous moments when it was filmed; second, as a commission of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm; third, as the product of a director with a strong personal vision and authorial presence; and finally, as an expression of Hildebrand’s self-defined AIDS activism.
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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-
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Inge Ivarson and the Quality Porn Film
- 2023
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Ingår i: Porn Studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2326-8751 .- 2326-8743. ; 10:4, s. 368-373
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses a few points often brought up in relation to a ‘golden age of porn’, namely the issue of quality and of art versus money. Using the example of Inge Ivarson, a film producer in Sweden who, from the late 1960s and on, was a prolific producer of sexually explicit films, the article argues that his production of literary adaptations, directed by Mac Ahlberg, can be seen as a kind of quality porn.
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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-
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Ingmar Bergman, Swedish sexploitation and early Swedish porn
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. - Bristol : Intellect. - 2042-7891 .- 2042-7905. ; 5:1, s. 49-61
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses intertextual relations between Ingmar Bergman films and four films from the Swedish history of late 1960s and 1970s sexploitation and pornography. Although Bergman played a significant role in the liberalization of film censorship in Sweden in the 1960s and was known for the beautiful actresses of his films, that he demonstrably inspired film-makers operating in what is usually regarded as the complete opposite of art cinema is not so widely known. In the films Jag – en oskuld/Inga (1968), Thriller – en grym film/Thriller – A Cruel Picture (1974), Justine och Juliette/Justine and Juliette (1975) and Fäbodjäntan/Come Blow the Horn (1978) there are several intertextual relations, both deliberate allusions and more implicit and unintended connections. These relations may have an impact on how we regard both the role of Bergman and the directors of sexually explicit films in the particular context of Sweden in the 1960s and 1970s.
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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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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-
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Joe Sarno and Historiography : Some Thoughts on The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. - : Intellect. - 2042-7891 .- 2042-7905. ; 3:2, s. 101-105
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The recent Swedish documentary The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies (Eriksson, 2013) evokes questions about historiography and nationality. This article discusses the documentary's focus on Joe Sarno's reluctance to do hardcore, on his wife, Peggy, as well as the couple's relationship to Sweden.
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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-
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Kärlekens språk (The Language of Love)
- 2012
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Ingår i: Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema. - Lanham, Toronto, Plymouth : Scarecrow Press. - 9780810855243 ; , s. 229-230
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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-
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Lasse Braun, rape scenarios, and Swedish censorship : a case study of two 8-mm porn films featuring rape
- 2017
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Ingår i: Porn Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2326-8751 .- 2326-8743. ; 4:1, s. 23-34
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines rape scenarios in two pornographic 8-mm films by Lasse Braun: White Fantasies/Black Power (1969) and Cerimony (1971). Furthermore, it begins an exploration of Lasse Braun, an important figure in late-1960s and early-1970s pornography. Finally, because both films were censored by the Swedish National Board of Film Censors, the article considers their specific national-historical contexts including the legal situation for pornography in Sweden and the shifting discourses on rape in the 1970s, to open up a discussion of whether the elimination of violence in pornographic representations actually makes them less misogynist. The censorship decisions clearly echoed anxieties about race and gender provoked by these two films. A closer look at the films reveals a knowing approach, not only to sexual fantasies, but also to contemporary political and aesthetic movements.
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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-
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Making Love Detumescently : Some Preliminary Notes on the Body Language of the Penis
- 2014
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Ingår i: Kosmorama (København). - Copenhagen : Danska Filminstitutet. - 0023-4222 .- 2245-9731. ; :258
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although body language in the moving image may to a large extent be transparent, some aspects of body language are regulated by generic conventions, rating systems, and, historically, by the law. This article discusses the limitations and possibilities of the body language of the penis, using examples from both non-pornographic films and pornographic films.
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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-
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Money shot
- 2014
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Ingår i: Cultural encyclopedia of the penis. - New York : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. - 9780759123120 - 9780759123144 ; , s. 123-124
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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-
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Money shot
- 2014
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Ingår i: Cultural encyclopedia of the penis. - New York : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. - 9780759123120 - 9780759123144 ; , s. 123-124
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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-
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Pornography and erotica
- 2014
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Ingår i: Cultural encyclopedia of the penis. - New York : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. - 9780759123120 - 9780759123144 ; , s. 166-168
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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-
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Pornography and Transnationality : The Case of Hälle, Sweden in the 1970s
- 2024
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Ingår i: Lambda Nordica. - 1100-2573 .- 2001-7286. ; 29:1, s. 44-62
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article addresses border crossings in the 1970s related to sexual commerce,in particular in the small community of Hälle, located near the Sweden–Norwayborder at Svinesund and European route E6. As the legal situation with regardto pornography differed in Norway and Sweden, Swedish legislation being moreliberal, Norwegians travelled to Sweden to both buy and to consume on-sitesexually explicit material and entertainment. By choosing this perspective, thearticle shifts focus away from the sexually explicit material itself, towards thespaces in which it can be found, and reflects upon consumption of such materialas a literally transgressive, non-normative sexual behavior.
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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-
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Private Media Group
- 2020
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Ingår i: The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society. - Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications. - 9781483375533 - 9781483375519 ; , s. 1402-1403
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Private Media Group is a multinational company, founded in Sweden, which provides adult entertainment on a wide range of platforms such as the Internet, cable and digital television, and DVDs and magazines. Started as a magazine in 1965 by Berth Milton Sr. in Stockholm, it is one of the oldest such companies in the world, together with, for example, Danish Color Climax. In addition, Private Media Group was the first hardcore pornography company to trade publicly: It was listed on the Nasdaq trading index in 1999. However, after the introduction of high-speed Internet and the competition from free porn sites such as xHamster, Pornhub, and Xvideo, Private struggled financially, and in 2011, it was delisted from the Nasdaq. This entry provides an overview of Private ...
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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-
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The Death of Porn? : An Autopsy of "Scandinavian Sin" in the Twenty-first Century
- 2016. - 1
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Ingår i: A Companion to Nordic Cinema. - Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell. - 9781118475256 ; , s. 566-588
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- This chapter discusses current changes in how pornography is perceived, consumed, and produced in Scandinavia, with a particular focus on Sweden. Brian McNair argues that the development in liberal democracies that has legalized and facilitated pornography in the past four decades has also enabled various sorts of progress that have been made in the areas of women's and gays' rights as well as the rights to sexual citizenship. The chapter focuses on the producers' perspective, the consumption angle and the changing context for consumption of pornographic images are also taken into account. Two producers of different pornographies are juxtaposed and compared: Mia Engberg, who produced Dirty Diaries; and Mike Beck, who has been producing mainstream porn films. The chapter is partly based on earlier research into the pornographic film in Sweden in the 1970s, but although the chapter provides historical background, the main emphasis is on the contemporary scene.
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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-
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The pre-digital in the digital : Private’s online back catalogue
- 2022
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Ingår i: Porn Studies. - : Routledge. - 2326-8751 .- 2326-8743. ; 9:1, s. 27-37
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article addresses what happens to pornographic material during the transition from analogue to digital form. Started in Sweden in 1965, Private magazine is one of the oldest, still existing pornography companies, challenging the existing obscenity law in Sweden at the time of its first issue. Here, Private magazine and privateclassics.com function as a case study and point of departure for a discussion of materiality, nostalgia, and cultural memory, but more poignantly a changing legal context for pornography which, although called for, might also be an obstacle to research. Drawing on Whitney Strub’s idea of a ‘sanitation’ of the 1970s, a comparison of the physical issues of Private magazine and the scanned issues available (for a fee) on privateclassics.com shows that age indications in image captions in the magazine have been altered in order to concur with the legal situation of pornography today.
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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-
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Using health as an argument : The Swedish porn debate 2013-18
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. - : Intellect Ltd.. - 2042-7891 .- 2042-7905. ; 9:1, s. 111-116
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- This short subject delineates the current Swedish debate about pornography's harmful effects on children as a public health problem and situates it in a discursive and socio-geographical context. It describes how the arguments of the Swedish debate align with those of an international anti-porn discourse and cautions against normative assignations of sexual practices as 'healthy' or 'unhealthy'.
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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-, et al.
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Women Arctic Explorers : In Front of and Behind the Camera
- 2019
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Ingår i: Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press. - 9780253040305 - 9780253040299 - 9780253040312 ; , s. 68-91
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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-
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Zetterling, Mai (1925-1994)
- 2012
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Ingår i: Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema. - Lanham Toronto Plymouth : Scarecrow Press. - 9780810855243 ; , s. 417-418
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- Larsson, Mariah, 1972-
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Älskande par (Loving Couples, 1964)
- 2012
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Ingår i: Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema. - Lanham Toronto Plymouth : Scarecrow Press. - 9780810855243 ; , s. 48-49
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- Laxdal, Aron, et al.
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FIDES Athlete Development Programme : project background and study protocol of an embedded multiple case study
- 2024
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Ingår i: BMJ Open sport & exercise medicine. - : BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. - 2055-7647. ; 10:1
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- Most sports science research revolves around male subjects. As a result, most of the knowledge and practices within sports are male-centric. Failing to take the biological, psychological and social (biopsychosocial) particularities of females into account is believed to hinder optimal sports participation, development and performance, with potential negative effects on the health and well-being of females. To close the knowledge gap and alleviate these issues, we aim to develop and evaluate a 12-video educational intervention that addresses female-specific subject matter: the FIDES Athlete Development Programme. The study is designed as an embedded multiple case study where at least 1320 Swedish female athletes aged 13-16 will participate, in addition to their parents and their coaches. The girls will be recruited through their sports clubs, with half being exposed to the FIDES Athlete Development Programme and the other half serving as control cases. The primary outcomes are well-being and sporting experience. To further increase our understanding of the intervention and its implications, interviews and focus group interviews with a reference group of girls and focus group interviews with a randomly selected subsample of coaches and parents will also be performed. The project is approved by the Swedish ethics committee (number: 2023-05264-01) and will be carried out in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Results from the project will be published open access in peer-reviewed journals, at national and international conferences, in mass media, and a PhD thesis. The anonymised data will be made openly available in a data repository.
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