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Reading list

Scandinavian Film and Media Culture

Skandinavisk film- och mediekultur

Course
KVL191
First cycle
7.5 credits (ECTS)

About the Reading list

Valid from
Spring semester 2025 (2025-01-20)
Decision date
2024-11-28

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 Tr盲dg氓rdh. 鈥漃ippi Longstocking: The Autonomous Child and the Moral Logic of the Swedish Welfare State.鈥 In Swedish Modernism. Architecture, Consumption and the Welfare State, edited by Helena Mattson and Sven-Olov Wallenstein, 50鈥65. London: Black Dog Publishings, 2010. (pdf)


Brod茅n, Daniel. "The Dark Ambivalences of the Welfare State: Investigating the

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

doi: 10.1386/nl.9.95_1


Brod茅n, 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鈥檚"聽European Journal of Scandinavian Studies, vol. 46, no. 2, 2016, pp. 250-269.聽


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


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. 鈥淭he Concept of National Cinema.鈥 Screen, 4 (1989): 36鈥47.


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

(selected chapters, ca 250 pages)


Holmlund, Chris. 骋谤盲苍蝉 (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鈥檚 Cinema鈥: 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.


Kokkola, L., Palo, A., & Manderstedt, L. Protest and apology in the arctic: Enacting citizenship in two recent Swedish films.聽Humanities,聽8 (2019), 49.


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


Rees, Ellen. "Norwave: Norwegian Cinema 1997-2006." Scandinavian - Canadian Studies 19 (2010): 88-110.


Tavares, Hannah M. 鈥淎 prelude to postcolonial cultural histories of education: 鈥渞eading鈥 Amanda Kernell鈥檚聽Sami Blood,鈥 Paedagogica Historica 58 (2021): 504鈥24. DOI: 10.1080/00309230.2020.1856150


Van Belle, Jono. 鈥淭he everyday life of Auteurs du Cinema: The reception of Ingmar Bergman and his films,鈥 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鈥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鈥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鈥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."聽Gender Forum聽71 (2019): 7-22.


Sundet, Vilde Schanke. 鈥滷rom 鈥檚ecret鈥 online teen drama to international cult phenomenon: The global expansion of SKAM and its public service mission.鈥 Critical Studies in Television 1(2020): 69-90.


脜berg, 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