Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | A Companion to Nordic Cinema |
| Editors | Mette Hjort, Ursula Lindqvist |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Place of Publication | Chichester |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Publication date | 8 Apr 2016 |
| Pages | 271-290 |
| Chapter | 12 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781118475256 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978118475287 |
| Publication status | Published - 8 Apr 2016 |