Syllabus

Articles and book chapters in printed compendia handed out on first day of classes

Readings

Week one

• Bordwell, David & Kristin Thompson. “Chapter 9: Film Genres” in Film Art: An Introduction. New York: McGrawn Hill, 2010, ninth edition.
• Gustafsson, Tommy & Pietari Kääpä. “Introduction: Nordic Genre Film & Institutional History” in Nordic Genre Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
• Iversen, Gunnar. “Learning from Genre: Genre Cycles in Modern Norwegian Cinema.” In Transnational Cinema in a Global North: Nordic Cinema in Transition, edited by Andrew K. Nestingen & Travor Glen Elkington, 261-278. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005.
• Iversen, Gunnar. “Voices From the Past: Recent Nordic Historical Films” in Nordic Genre Film, edited by Tommy Gustafsson & Pietari Kääpä, 47-58. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
• Iversen, Gunnar. “From Trauma to Heroism: Cultural memory and remembrance in Norwegian occupation dramas, 1946-2009.” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 2:3 (2012): 237-428.
• Nestingen, Andrew. “Medium Concept Scandinavian Genre and Art Film Hybrids.” In Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia: Fiction, Film and Social Change, 49-98. Seattle: University of Washington, 2008.
• Kääpa, Pietari, “National Cinema as Natural Cinema?” in Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinema, 27-49, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
• Kääpa, Pietari, “Ecovariations of Genre Film” in Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinema, 51-66, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Week two

• Nicholas, Bill. “Race and Ethnicity in Film.” In Engaging Cinema. An Introduction to Film Studies, 325-58. New York: W.W. Norton & Company Ltd, 2010.
• Bakøy, Eva. “From Lonely Guest Workers to Conflict-ridden Diasporas: A Historical Survey of Norwegian Migrant Cinema.” In Media in Motion: Cultural Complexity and Migration in the Nordic Region, edited by Elisabeth Eide and Kaarina Nikune, 145-62. Farnham: Ashgay Publishing Limit, 2011.
• Stigsdotter, Ingrid. “”When to push stop or play’: The Swedish reception of Ruben Östlund’s Play (2011).” Journal of Scandinavian Studies 3, 1 (2013): 41-8.
• Christensen, Cato. “Reclaiming the Past: On the History-Making Significance of the Sámi Film in The Kautokeino Rebellion.” Acta Borealia 29:1 (2012): 56-76
• Dancus, Adriana Margareta. “Ghosts Haunting the Norwegian House: Racialization in Norway and The Kautokeino Rebellion.” Framework 55, 1 (Spring 2014): 121-39.
• Pearson, Wendy Gay. “Memories of Cultural Dismemberment: Nils Gaup, Mons Somby and the Re-Membering of Sámi History” in A Companion to Nordic Cinema, edited by Mette Hjort & Ursula Lindqvist, 377-395. West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2016

Week three

• Rees, Ellen. “The Nordic Quirky Feel Good” in Nordic Genre Film, edited by Tommy Gustafsson & Pietari Kääpä, 147-158. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
• Lindqvist, Ursula. “The Art of Not Telling Stories in Nordic Fiction Films” in A Companion to Nordic Cinema, edited by Mette Hjort & Ursula Lindqvist, 547-565. West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2016.

Week four

• Schepelern, Peter. “Film According to Dogme: Ground Rules, Obstacles & Liberations.” In Transnational Cinema in a Global North: Nordic Cinema in Transition, edited by Andrew Nestingen & Trevor Elkington, 73-107. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005.
• MacKenzie, Scott. “Films into Uniform: Dogme95 and the Last New Wave” in A Companion to Nordic Cinema, edited by Mette Hjort & Ursula Lindqvist, 419-435. West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2016.
• Stevenson, Jack. “John Cassavetes, Jean-Luc Godard, and the Gang That Influenced Dogme.” In Dogme Uncut. Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg and the Gang That Took on Hollywood, 25-49. Santa Monica: Santa Monica Press LLC, 2003
• Hjort, Mette. “A Different Kind of Feel Good Movie.” In Lone Scherfig’s Italian For Beginners, 173-216. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010.

Week five

• Engelstad, Audun. “Dealing with Crime: Cyclic Changes in Norwegian Crime Films.” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 1:2 (2011).
• Broden, Daniel. “The Dark Ambivalences of the Welfare State: Investigating the Transformations of the Swedish Crime Film.” Northern Lights 9 (2011).
• Iversen, Gunnar. “Between Art and Genre: New Nordic Horror Cinema” in A Companion to Nordic Cinema, edited by Mette Hjort & Ursula Lindqvist, 332-350. West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2016.
• Wright, Rochelle. “Vampire in the Stockholm Suburbs: Let the Right One In and Genre Hybridity.” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, 1:1 (2011)

Week six

• Kääpä, Pietari. “A Culture of Reciprocity: The Politics of Cultural Exchange in Contemporary Nordic Genre Film” in in Nordic Genre Film, edited by Tommy Gustafsson & Pietari Kääpä, 244-261. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015.

Films

Rønning, Joachim & Espen Sandberg. 2008. Max Manus: Man of War (Max Manus).

Østlund, Ruben. 2011. Play.

Gaup, Nils. 2008. The Kautokeino Rebellion (Kautokeino-opprøret).

Holm, Hannes. 2015. A Man Called Ove (En mann som heter Ove).

Vinterberg, Thomas. 1998. The Celebration (Festen).

Scherfig, Lone. 2000. Italian for Beginners (Italiensk for begyndere).

Skjoldbjærg, Erik. 1997. Insomnia.

Alfredson, Tomas. 2008. Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in).