The seminar is open to all and organized by Anna Westerstahl Stenport, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Eva Novrup Redvall, Section for Film Studies and Creative Media Industries, Dept. of Communication, at the University of Copenhagen.
The seminar will begin with a brief introduction of the book Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) by editors Anna Stenport and Arne Lunde, followed by presentations by:
Julie Allen, Brigham Young UniversityPatrick Wen, UCLA
Annie Fee, University of Oslo
Casper Tybjerg, University of Copenhagen
Anna Stenport, Georgia Institute of Technology
Emil Stjernholm, Lund University
Scott MacKenzie, Queen’s University, Canada
Ib Bondebjerg, University of Copenhagen
Eva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen
The seminar includes Q&A and conversation. There will be a reception after the seminar.
More on the book and the seminar programme
Seminar programme
5-minute presentations followed by conversation
Introduction: Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere
Anna Stenport, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mapping Cinema Ghosts: Reconstructing the Circulation of Nordic Silent Film in Australia
Julie Allen, Brigham Young University
Carin Fock-Göring’s Gravestone: Tracing the Legacy of the Swedish First Lady of the Third Reich
Patrick Wen, UCLA
Paris Looks to the North: Swedish Silent Film and the Emergence of Cinephilia
Annie Fee, University of Oslo
Dreyer’s Jeanne d’Arc at the Cinéma d’Essai: Cinephiliac and Political Passions in 1950s Paris
Casper Tybjerg, University of Copenhagen
Opening up the Postwar World in Color: 1950s Geopolitics and Spectacular Nordic Colonialism in the Arctic and in Africa
Anna Stenport, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mobility and Marginalization: Arne Sucksdorff’s Documentary Authorship in India and Brazil
Emil Stjernholm, Lund University
The Beatles, (the Other) Bergman, and Swedish Elsewheres in Anglo-America
Scott MacKenzie, Queen’s University, Canada
The Globalization of the Danish Documentary: Creative Collaboration and Modes of Global Documentaries
Ib Bondebjerg, University of Copenhagen
Nordic Noir as a Calling Card: The International Careers of Danish Film and Television Talent in the 2010s
Eva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen
Seminar Description
Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere introduces a new concept to Nordic film studies as well as to other small national, transnational, and world cinema traditions. Examining overlooked “elsewheres,” the book presents Nordic cinemas as international, cosmopolitan, diasporic, and geographically dispersed from their beginnings in the early silent period to their present 21st-century dynamics. Nordic Film Cultures examines both canonical works and a wide range of unknown, repressed, and overlooked stories that include narratives of movement, mobility, interaction, synthesis, resistance, loss, multi-lingualism, colonialism, and reclamation. The book offers a new model of inquiry into a multi-varied Scandinavian cultural lineage and into small nation and pan-regional world cinemas.
The book advocates for the significance of an extra-national heterogeneity of film production, distribution, circulation, and reception, one parallel to and inscribed within multivalent migrations to -- and periodic repatriations from -- Nordic cinemas of elsewhere. The “elsewheres” of moving image cultural historiography addressed in the book include Brazil, France, Congo, India, Iran, Germany, Oceania, the UK, the circumpolar Arctic and Antarctic, Palestine and the Middle East, Hollywood, Russia and the Baltic, Nigeria, and North America.
Key Features
Introduces the concept of “Elsewheres” and “Cinemas of Elsewhere” of value for many small national film cultures
Promotes an understanding of Scandinavian cinemas as world cinemas
Examines overlooked and little-known aspects of how Nordic cinemas have been funded, produced, circulated, received, appropriated, and re-imagined outside of Scandinavia
Addresses cinemas of exile, diaspora, migration, emigration, and immigration
Integrates examples of early and silent cinema, popular cinema, art cinema, documentary, shorts, experimental film, expanded media, the avant-garde, video art, music videos, ethnography, television, and digital representation
Engages with questions of colonialism, gender, multi-lingualism, inter- and cross-cultural representation, film practice in the diaspora, and visual anthropology
Engages with Indigenous cinemas of the North
Periode | 14 nov. 2019 |
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Begivenhedstitel | Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere: Screening Program, Book Launch, and Seminar |
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Begivenhedstype | Seminar |
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Placering | København, DanmarkVis på kort |
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Grad af anerkendelse | International |
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