A Companion to Nordic Cinema [Hardcover]

• Offers a comprehensive, transnational and regional account of Nordic cinema from its origins to the present day
• Features original contributions from more than two dozen international film scholars based in the Nordic countries, the United States, Canada, Scotland, and Hong Kong
• Covers a wide range of topics on the distinctive evolution of Nordic cinema including the silent Golden Age, Nordic film policy models and their influence, audiences and cinephilia, Nordic film training, and indigenous S?mi cinema.
• Considers Nordic cinemas engagement with global audiences through coverage of such topics as Dogme 95, the avant-garde filmmaking movement begun by Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, and the global marketing and distribution of Nordic horror and Nordic noir
• Offers fresh investigations of the work of global auteurs such as Carl Th. Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman, Lars von Trier, Aki Kaurism?ki, and Roy Andersson.
• Includes essays on Danish and Swedish television dramas, Finlands eco-documentary film production, the emerging tradition of Icelandic cinema, the changing dynamics of Scandinavian porn, and many more

Notes on Contributors viii

Acknowledgments xii

Introduction: Nordic Cinema: Breaking New Waves since the Dawn of Film 1
Mette Hjort and Ursula Lindqvist

Part I States of Cinema: Nordic Film Policy 13

Introduction 15
Mette Hjort and Ursula Lindqvist

1 Regional and Global Dimensions of Danish Film Culture and Film Policy 19