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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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- Bruhn, Jørgen, 1968-, et al.
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“Jan Troell’s Fleeting Still Moments”
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. - : Intellect. - 2042-7891 .- 2042-7905. ; 2:1, s. 55-72
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates the role of photography in the Swedish auteur Jan Troell's film Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick/Everlasting Moments (2008) in the light of different perspectives on medium specificity, photography and adaptation. We argue that Jan Troell, by way of cinema, discusses key characteristics and functions of photography. In so doing, the film, in addition to telling the tale of a historical female photographer, raises a number of questions concerning media theory, media ontology and history. We introduce the term 'fleeting still moments' in order to account for Troell's particular cinematic strategy, negotiating movement and stills. Accordingly, the central questions in our study are as follows: what are the differences and similarities between cinema and photography? And to what degree can the differences be framed within the traditional divide between cinema's movement and photography's stillness?
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- Brunow, Dagmar
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The language of the complex image : Roy Anderssons's political aesthetics
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. - Bristol : Intellect Ltd.. - 2042-7891 .- 2042-7905. ; 1:1, s. 83-86
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Departing from the opening scene of Roy Andersson’s 1991 short Härlig är jorden/World of Glory, the article gives an overview of the director’s political aesthetics outlined in his book Vår tids rädsla för allvar. Through the use of static long shots, stylization and the condensation of time and space Andersson attempts to activate reflection upon existential questions such as solidarity and the individual’s responsibility. In this scene from World of Glory Andersson links these ideas with a critique of Swedish passivity during the Holocaust.
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- Hedling, Olof, et al.
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Film Studies anno 2013 : A Bird’s Eye View
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. - : Intellect. - 2042-7891 .- 2042-7905. ; 4:1, s. 35-41
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This short subject assessing the current state of the academic field of film studies as practiced at sites of higher learning in Sweden is based on experiences and knowledge the co-authors gained as members of a national committee to evaluate the ‘academic quality’ of programmes from a comparative point of view.
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- Jernudd, Åsa, 1964-
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Christmas satire on Swedish television : Christopher's Christmas mission
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. - Bristol, UK : Intellect Ltd.. - 2042-7891 .- 2042-7905. ; 3:3, s. 253-258
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The short subject argues that the short animated film, Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton/Christopher's Christmas Mission, which is screened annually on Swedish public service television to the delight of around a million spectators, offers sharp satire criticizing lingering class inequalities in the 1970s, despite decades of Social Democratic rule.
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- Koivunen, Anu, 1967-
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Talking heads, imagined communities : steam of Life and the affective politics of intimate documentary
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. - : Intellect. - 2042-7891 .- 2042-7905. ; 2:2, s. 97-112
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In a cycle of new Finnish documentaries, male confessional talk abounds. Beyond the successful Miesten vuoro/Steam of Life (Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen, 2010), several recent documentaries propose to give voice to ordinary Finnish men who reveal their true feelings to other men. In this article, Steam of Life is discussed as a case of intimate documentary, drawing on both the political aesthetics of feminist documentary and the transnational, late modern rhetoric of confession.Employing the complex affective legacies of the talking head, the film engages in performative politics of gender and nation. It mobilizes a discourse on the nation as a male network, and importantly evokes nation as a sentimental community, a community based on feeling. In so doing, however, it de-individualizes the speaking subjects. While purporting to give voice to the male protagonists, the film makes them anonymous soldiers of the nation, thereby denying them their own voices.
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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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- Ljuslinder, Karin, 1956-
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Empowering images or preserved stereotypes : representations of disability in contemporary film comedies
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. - : Intellect Ltd.. - 2042-7891 .- 2042-7905. ; 4:3, s. 267-279
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Historically, disability in comedy has taken the form of joking at the expense of disabled persons. In modern times, it is first and foremost through media that the public is exposed to representations of disability, and media is considered societys most far-reaching (re)producer of cultural values. This degrading ridicule in combination with the pervasiveness of media has made disability and humour a controversial combination. Through discourse analysis this article analyses three contemporary mainstream cinema comedies about disability with the overall aim to contribute to enhanced knowledge of how different articulations promote or challenge hegemonic presumptions about disability. The analysis shows that empowering images and stereotypes of disability exist simultaneously as competing discourses in media representations. The conclusion is that aware decisions about how to represent disability are indispensable for film-makers due to the major role of media in forming public perceptions.
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