[Commlist] New book: The Politics of Nordsploitation: History, Industry, Audiences

  The Politics of Nordsploitation:  History, Industry, Audiences
  (Bloomsbury)

/*Pietari Kääpä, <https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/pietari-kaapa> 
Tommy Gustafsson <https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/tommy-gustafsson>*/

/The Politics of Nordsploitation/takes a transnational approach to 
exploring Nordic 'exploitation' films in their industrial contexts, 
evaluating them as not only political manifestations of domestic 
considerations but also to position Nordic film cultures in a global 
context. Incorporating a wide range of films, from international cult 
classics like /They Call Her One Eye/ (1974), homegrown martial arts 
films like /The Ninja Mission/ (1984) to contemporary crowd-sourced fan 
productions like /Iron Sky/ (2012), this volume examines the remarkable 
diversity of genre-based, commercially and culturally exploitative film 
production throughout the Nordic countries - emphasized here through the 
term 'Nordsploitation'.

This volume provides a historical exposition of largely ignored marginal 
films and film cultural patterns. It also outlines how influential these 
films have been in shaping the development of Nordic cinema. The effects 
are visible in the films of the new millennium as previously 
marginalized practices now enter the mainstream. With sharp insights and 
new research, /The Politics of Nordsploitation/ redefines the concept of 
'exploitation' and its role in small nation cinemas.

*Reviews*

“/The Politics of Nordsploitation: History, Industry, Audiences/ 
examines exploitation in a Nordic context, arguing that, because of 
local societal, political, and economic norms, the exploitation cinema 
of these countries 'both shares and challenges normative modes of 
exploitation....' The primary difference has to do with cultural 
attitudes toward sex, which is viewed as relatively unproblematic in 
Scandinavia, versus violence, which has been rigorously censored, and 
this volume consequently excludes sexploitation while focusing on 
violence and gore as the primary subject of censorship debates in the 
Nordic region.

Distinguishing between two principle modes, local genre production and 
global exploitation, the book covers a wide range of films and topics, 
from Mats Helge Olsson's 'Entertainment Violence Factory' of the 1980s 
to Nordic Nazisploitation, from the Norwegian slasher cycle to 
transnational genre films, to an era of 'fanchising' and crowdfunding 
that produced hits such as /Iron Sky/. /The Politics of Nordsploitation/ 
is therefore an essential volume for Bloomsbury's Global Exploitation 
Cinemas series.” –  Linda Badley, Professor of English and Film Studies 
at Middle Tennessee State University, USA, and author of Film, Horror, 
and the Body Fantastic (1995) and Lars von Trier (2010

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

TOMMY GUSTAFSSON is Professor of Film Studies at Linnaeus University, 
Sweden. His work is mainly concentrated on film history, both 
international and Nordic. He has been published in /Cinema Journal/ and 
/Journal of Scandinavian Cinema/, and his books include /Masculinity in 
the Golden Age of Swedish Cinema: A Cultural Analysis of 1920s Films 
/(2014), and the anthology /Nordic Genre Film: Small Nation Film 
Cultures in the Global Marketplace/ (2015) co-edited with Pietari Kääpä.

PIETARI KÄÄPÄ is Associate Professor in Media and Communications at 
University of Warwick, UK. His work combines ecocritical analysis with 
media industry and policy studies. His books include /Ecology and 
Contemporary Nordic Cinema/ (Bloomsbury 2014) and the anthology 
/Transnational Ecocinema: Film Culture in an Age of Environmental 
Depravation/ (2013), co-edited with Tommy Gustafsson. He isan editor of 
/Journal of Scandinavian Cinema. /

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-politics-of-nordsploitation-9781501327315/ 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-politics-of-nordsploitation-9781501327315/>

*Imprint: *

	

Bloomsbury Academic

*Series: *

	

Global Exploitation Cinemas 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/global-exploitation-cinemas/>

Dr. Pietari Kääpä

Associate Professor in Media and Communications

Director of Postgraduate Taught Courses
School of Creative Arts, Performance, and Visual Cultures

University of Warwick

CV4 7HS

UK

Docent in Film and Television Studies, University of Helsinki

Editor: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-scandinavian-cinema>

Co-PI: AHRC Network on Global Green Media Production 
(www.globalgreenmediaproduction.com 
<http://www.globalgreenmediaproduction.com/>) (with Hunter Vaughan)


RECENT BOOKS

The Politics of Nordsploitation: History, Industry, Audiences 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-politics-of-nordsploitation-9781501327315/>(Bloomsbury 
2020) (with Tommy Gustafsson)

Environmental Management of the Media: Policy, Industry, Practice 
<https://www.routledge.com/Environmental-Management-of-the-Media-Policy-Industry-Practice/Kaapa/p/book/9781138649828>(Routledge 
2018)

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