Nordic ExplorationsFilm before 1930Edited by John Fullerton and Jan Olsson

Examines early cinema from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland.

Nordic Explorations: Film before 1930 includes 20 original essays written for the 1999 retrospective of Nordic cinema at Le Giomate del Cinema Muto in Italy. The anthology brings together some of the leading current research on early cinema in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, and includes essays on such major figures in Nordic cinema as Dreyer, Christensen, Sjostrom, and Stiller. This anthology also contains studies of the Norwegian travel genre, Nordic animated film, the relation of Nordic cinema to German and Russian film, the development of educational cinema and industrial film, as well as in-depth studies of individual films, filmmakers, national styles, and the relation of the medium to other forms of popular entertainment.

The essays in Nordic Explorations make a timely contribution to the study of early cinema, afford authoritative and stimulating insight into research in the field, and challenge many assumptions regarding Nordic cinema before 1930. This volume is essential reading for all film history specialists, researchers, and students of film studies.

John Fullerton is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies, Stockholm University, and has published widely on early Swedish film. He edited Celebrating 1895: The Centenary of Cinema and coedited with Jan Olsson the Stockholm Studies in Cinema series, and edited. He is also coeditor of Moving Images: From Edison to the Webcam, the second publication in the Stockholm Studies in Cinema series.

Jan Olsson is Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies, Stockholm University, and has published many books on Scandinavian cinema, including Allegories of Communication: Intermedial Concerns from Cinema to Digital.

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[I'm not editing this tc since we probably won't use -- let me know if you will!]ContentsDenmarkA Small Danish Player in a Big Market: A/S Filmfabriken Danmark's Output in Russia, 1913-1917 / Jan NielsenNordisk Films Kompagni and the First World War / Thomas C. ChristensenRed Satan: Carl Theodor Dreyer and the Bolshevik Threat / Casper TybjergBenjamin Christensen in Germany / Ib MontyPalladium and the Silent Films with ""Long and Short"" / Marguerite EngbergA la recherche des films perdus: A Substantial Find of Early Danish Cinema / Bo BerglundFinland: Born Under the Sign of the Scarlet Flower: Pantheism in Finnish Silent Cinema / Antti AlanenFinnish Film in the 1920s: Defining a National Cinema / Peter von BaghNorway: Sisters of Cinema: Three Norwegian Female Actors and their German Film Company, 1917--1920 / Gunnar IversenTravel Films in Norway: The Persistence of the View Aesthetic / Bjorn SorenssenCaricatures, Commercials, and Political Un-correctness: The Silent Nordic Animated Film / Gunnar StromSweden: Exchange and Exhibition Practices: Notes on the Swedish Market in the Transitional Era/ Jan OlssonEducational Cinema and Censorship in Sweden, 1911--1921 / Asa JemuddSeeing the World with Different Eyes, or Seeing Differently: Cinematographic Vision and Turn-of-the-century Popular Entertainment / John FullertonTowards Classical Narration? Georg at Klercher in Context / Astrid Soderbergh Widding""A Dangerous Pledge"": Victor Sjostrom's Unknown Masterpiece Masterman / Tom GunningSpearhead in a Blind Alley: Viking Eggeling's Diagonal Symphony / Gosta WernerSnow-white: The Aesthetic and Narrative Use of Snow in Swedish Silent Film / Marina DahiquistVictor Goes West: Notes on the Critical Reception of Sjostrom's Hollywood Films, 1923--1930 / Bo FlorinIndustrial Greta: Some Thoughts on an Industrial Film / Mats Bjorkin

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