Films:
Andersson, Roy: A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron; 2014)
Bech, Torben & Otto Rosing: Nuummioq (2009)
Berg, Jan van den & Pipaluk Knudsen-Ostermann: Silent Snow (2011)
Bier, Susanne: In a Better World (Hævnen; 2010)
Gaup, Nils: The Kautokeino Rebellion (Kautokeino-opprøret; 2008)
Høegh, Inuk Silis: Sumé: Sound of a Revolution (Sume – Mumisitsinerup Nipaa; 2014)
Johnsen, Sara: Upperdog (2009)
(Metz, Janus: Armadillo (2011))
Olsson, Göran Hugo: Concerning Violence (2014)
(Sødahl, Maria: Limbo (2010))
Zaman, Hisham: Letter to the King (Brevet til kongen; 2014)
Östlund, Ruben: Play (2011)
Articles in the course reader (kompendium):
Dancus, Adriana Margareta. “Film and Pathoscapes: A Study of Upperdog (Sara Johnsen, 2009)”. In: Per Thomas Andersen (ed.): Acta Nordica. Globalization in Literature. Oslo: Fagbokforlaget 2014: 215-225.
Hjort, Mette. “From Epiphanic Culture to Circulation: The Dynamics of Globalization in Nordic Cinema”. In: Andrew Nestingen and Trevor G. Elkington (eds.): Transnational Cinema in a Global North, Nordic Cinema in Transition. Detroit: Wayne State University Press 2005: 191-218.
McEachrane, Michael: ”Introduction“. Michael McEachrane (red.): Afro-Nordic Landscapes. Equality and Race in Northern Europe. New York 2014, 3-13.
Mecsei, Monica Kim: “Cultural Stereotypes and Negotiations in Sámi Cinema”. Scott MacKenzie, Anna Westerståhl Stenport (eds.): Films on Ice. Cinemas of the Arctic. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2015, 72-83.
Palmberg, Mai: ”The Nordic Colonial Mind“. Suvi Keskinen et al. (red.): Complying with Colonialism. Gender, Race and Ethnicity in the Nordic Region. Farnham 2009, 35–50.
Thisted, Kirsten. “Cosmopolitan Inuit: New Perspectives on Greenlandic Film”. Scott MacKenzie, Anna Westerståhl Stenport (eds.): Films on Ice. Cinemas of the Arctic. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2015, 97-104.
Thisted, Kirsten. “Discourses of Indigeneity: Branding Greenland in the Age of Self-Government and Climate Change.” Sverker Sörlin (ed.): Science, Geopolitics and Culture in the Polar Region: Norden Beyond Borders. Farnham; Burlington: Ashgate 2013, 227-258.
Volquardsen, Ebbe. “Scandinavia and “the Land of UnSwedish Freedom”. Jonathan Franzen, Susanne Bier and Self-conceptions of Exceptionalism in Crisis.” Kristín Loftsdóttir, Lars Jensen (eds.): Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond: At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism. Aldershot: Ashgate 2013, 31-50.
Articles published online/in journals accessible via the UiO network:
Brunow, Dagmar: “The language of the complex image: Roy Andersson’s political aesthetics”. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 1:1 (2010), 83-86.
Karlsson, Helena: “Ruben Östlund’s Play (2011): Race and Segregation in “Good” Liberal Sweden.” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 4:1 (2014), 43-60.
Oxfeldt, Elisabeth: “Multicultural Nationalism and Localized Globalization: Analyzing Film Narratives of Cultural Belonging from a Postcolonial Perspective.” Susanne V. Knudsen, Jesús Rodríguez Rodríguez & Mike Horsley (eds.): Local, National and Transnational Identities in Textbooks and Educational Media (10th International Conference on Textbooks and Educational Media). Santiago de Compostela: IARTEM 2010, 74-81.
Rees, Ellen. “Norwave: Norwegian Cinema 1997-2006”. Scandinavian-Canadian Studies / Études Scandinaves au Canada Vol. 19 (2010): 88-110.
Romney, Jonathan. “Shiny Happy People.” Sight and Sound 25:5 (2015), 32-35.
(Sim, Gerald. “A Gray Zone between Documentary and Fiction: Interview with Janus Metz.” Film Quarterly 1 (2011), 17-24.)
Shringarpure, Bhakti: “Fanon documentary confronts fallacies about anti-colonial philosopher”. The Guardian, 21.7.2014
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/21/-sp-frantz-fanon-documentary-concerning-violence
Stubberud, Elisabeth; Priscilla Ringrose: “Speaking images, race-less words: Play and the absence of race in contemporary Scandinavia”. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 4:1, 61-74.
Articles, forthcoming:
Körber, Lill-Ann: "Toxic Blubber and Seal Skin Bikinis, Or: How Green is Greenland?" (forthcoming in: Lill-Ann Körber, Scott MacKenzie & Anna Westerståhl Stenport (eds.): Arctic Environmental Modernities. From the Age of Polar Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)
Rees, Ellen: “Privilege, Innocence, and “Petro-Guilt” in Maria Sødahl’s Limbo” (forthcoming in Scandinavian Studies)
Additional tools/resources:
Timothy Corrigan: A Short Guide to Writing About Film (please purchase a copy!)