[Commlist] New Book | The Intellect Handbook of Nordic Cinema

Intellect is pleased to share that /The Intellect Handbook of Nordic 
Cinema 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-intellect-handbook-of-nordic-cinema>/, 
edited by Gunnar Iversen and Mariah Larsson, is out in e-book and hardback!

An insightful guide to the films, genres, and cultural motifs that 
define Nordic cinema past and present. /The Intellect Handbook of Nordic 
Cinema/ offers a comprehensive overview of cinema in the Nordic 
region—Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, and Sápmi. While each 
nation has distinct cinematic traditions and media histories, they also 
share many institutional and thematic features. A key example is the 
reliance of film production across all five countries, and in Sápmi, on 
various forms of government support. Focusing primarily on feature 
films, the volume also addresses documentaries and animation, situating 
Nordic film production within today’s evolving media landscape where 
television and streaming services act as both partners and competitors. 
With contributions from leading scholars, this handbook provides an 
essential reference for anyone seeking to understand the diversity, 
commonalities, and global relevance of Nordic cinema.


*_Table of Contents
_
*
*List of Figures and Tables*
*Introduction *– /Gunnar Iversen and Mariah Larsson/

*_Section 1: General Overview
_Introduction *– /Gunnar Iversen and Mariah Larsson/

*Chapter 1:* The Sámi Film Wave: Sápmi and Sámi Film Culture – /Stine 
Agnete Sand/
*Chapter 2: *Ultrasmall Cinemas of the North Atlantic: Greenland and 
the Faroe Islands – /Anders//Grønlund/
*Chapter 3:* What Makes a Film Nordic? The Evolution of ‘Immigrant’ 
Filmmaking in the Nordic Countries – /Linda Haverty Rugg/
*Chapter 4:* Nordic Cinema and Film Politics: The Norwegian Case – /Ove 
Solum and Dag Asbjørnsen/
*Chapter 5:* Sustainable Nordic Screens: Environmental Content, Banal 
Materialism and Sustainable Production Practice in Nordic Film, TV, and 
Streaming Media – /Pietari Kääpä/
/
/*_Section 2: Nation, Identities, History
_Introduction *– /Mariah Larsson and Gunnar Iversen /

*Chapter 6:* Norwegian Apocalypse: The Happiest People in the World 
Imagine Disasters – /Gunnar Iversen/
*Chapter 7:* The Auteur as Bergman’s Persona –/ Jan Holmberg/
*Chapter 8:* Vikings and Nordic Film Culture – /Bodil Petersson and Jes 
Wienberg/*
Chapter 9: *Sweden’s Top Comedians: An Introduction to Hasse & Tage for 
Non-Swedish Audiences – /Emilio Audissino/
*Chapter 10:* The Danish /Bedside /Comedies – /Isak Thorsen/
*Chapter 11:* Heroes, Collaborators, Fighters, and Right-Wing Populists: 
A Comparative Study of Contemporary Nordic Second World War Films – 
/Erik Hedling/

*_Section 3: Gender and Sexuality
_Introduction *– Mariah Larsson and Gunnar Iversen

*Chapter 12: *Curating the Archive of Nordic Queer Cinema – /Dagmar Brunow/
*Chapter 13: *Feminist Interventions and Film Policy: The Work for 
Gender Equality in Nordic Film Production – /Ingrid S. Holtar/
*Chapter 14:* “One must alternately reconstruct as an archaeologist, 
search as a criminalist, or try to decipher like a psychoanalyst of the 
unconscious”: The Reception of “Homosexual” Film Characters in the 1940s 
and 50s – /Ingrid Ryberg/
*Chapter 15:* Obscene Films and Obscenity Law in the Nordic Countries – 
/Mariah Larsson/

*_Section 4: Social Critique and Documentary
_Introduction *– /Gunnar Iversen and Mariah Larsson/

*Chapter 16: *Framing the Nation: Spaces of Everyday Life in 
Scandinavian Documentaries – /Ib Bondebjerg/
*Chapter 17:* Radical Scandinavian Documentary Culture in the 1970s – 
/Bjørn Sørenssen/
*Chapter 18:* Screen Stories of Growing Up: Nordic Children’s and Youth 
Films – /Anders Lysne/
*Chapter 19:* On the Critical Edge of Nordic Cinemas: Award-Winning 
Films as Social Critique – /Jonathan Rozenkrantz/
*Chapter 20:* Competing Screens? The Relation between Cinema and 
Television in a Swedish Context – /Per Vesterlund/

*_Section 5: Futures
_Introduction *– /Gunnar Iversen and Mariah Larsson/

*Chapter 21:* Piracy and Digital Film Culture – /Pelle Snickars/
*Chapter 22:* Negotiating Content Rights with Global Streamers in Small 
Markets: A Case Study of Denmark’s ‘Streaming Crisis’ – /Nina Vindum 
Rasmussen and Vilde Schanke Sundet/
*Chapter 23:* Nordic Animation and the Digital Revolution – /Jonas 
Lindkvist/
*Chapter 24: *Nordic Film History, Digitization and Online Access – 
/Eirik Frisvold Hanssen/

*Notes on Contributors
Index*

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www.intellectbooks.com/the-intellect-handbook-of-nordic-cinema



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