Searching for Art’s Promised Land: Nordic Silent Cinema and the Swedish Example

TY - CHAP

T1 - Searching for Art’s Promised Land

T2 - Nordic Silent Cinema and the Swedish Example

AU - Tybjerg, Casper

PY - 2016/4/8

Y1 - 2016/4/8

N2 - This chapter examines the way that Swedish Golden Age films became an example for others to follow. It begins by looking at the agenda-setting films produced by Charles Magnusson's company Svenska Biografteatern. The chapter discusses how the Nordisk company in Denmark shifted its production policy in a very similar direction in 1918, discharging several established directors and allowing younger talents like Carl Th. Dreyer and A. W. Sandberg to make more ambitious and expensive films. In Norway, where film production had been only sporadic, this provided a new impetus for home-grown pictures based on the Swedish model. A substantial number of the films discussed in the chapter are set in the first half of the nineteenth century, a period of romantic nationalism, and the chapter looks at the ways in which many of the films draw on the art of the period.

AB - This chapter examines the way that Swedish Golden Age films became an example for others to follow. It begins by looking at the agenda-setting films produced by Charles Magnusson's company Svenska Biografteatern. The chapter discusses how the Nordisk company in Denmark shifted its production policy in a very similar direction in 1918, discharging several established directors and allowing younger talents like Carl Th. Dreyer and A. W. Sandberg to make more ambitious and expensive films. In Norway, where film production had been only sporadic, this provided a new impetus for home-grown pictures based on the Swedish model. A substantial number of the films discussed in the chapter are set in the first half of the nineteenth century, a period of romantic nationalism, and the chapter looks at the ways in which many of the films draw on the art of the period.

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9781118475256

SP - 271

EP - 290

BT - A Companion to Nordic Cinema

A2 - Hjort, Mette

A2 - Lindqvist, Ursula

PB - Wiley-Blackwell

CY - Chichester

ER -