Syllabus/achievement requirements

This course presents contemporary Scandinavian cinema – with a particular focus on Norwegian film.

 

The course is aimed at international as well as Norwegian students. Lectures will be given in English, but students may use Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English for the exam.

 

 

Films:

Alfredson, Thomas: Let the Right One in (La den rette komme inn, 2007)

Andersson, Roy: A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (En duva satt p? en gren och funderade p? tillvaron, 2014)

Bier, Susanne: In a Better World (H?vnen, 2010)

Gaup, Nils: The Kautokeino Rebellion (Kautokeino-oppr?ret, 2008)

Haugerud, Dag Johan: I belong (Som du ser meg, 2012)

Haq, Iram: I am yours  (Jeg er din, 2013)

Lindholm, Tobias: A War (Krigen, 2014)

Sewitsky, Anne: Homesick (De n?rmeste, 2015)

Sve Flikke, Yngvild: Kvinner i for store herreskjorter (2015)

?vredal, Andre: Trollhunter (Trolljegeren, 2010)

?stlund, Ruben: Force Majeure (Turist, 2014)

Von Trier, Lars: Antichrist (2009)


Articles in the course reader (kompendium):
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.

Iversen, Gunnar “Between Art and Genre – An Introduction to New Nordic Horror Cinema,” in Mette Hjort and Ursula Lindqvist (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Nordic Cinema, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016; 332-350.

Mecsei, Monica Kim: “Cultural Stereotypes and Negotiations in Sámi Cinema”. Scott MacKenzie, Anna Westerst?hl Stenport (eds.): Films on Ice. Cinemas of the Arctic. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2015, 72-83.

Mulvey, Laura ”Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, Screen 1975 (16), p 6-18.

Lindquist, Ursula ”The art of not telling stories in Nordic fiction films” in Mette Hjort and Ursula Lindqvist (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Nordic Cinema, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.

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. 

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.

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. 


Articles published online/in journals accessible via the UiO network:
Agger, Gunhild (2015): Strategies in Danish Film Culture – and the Case of Susanne Bier. Kosmorama #259 http://www.kosmorama.org/ServiceMenu/05-English/Articles/Susanne-Bier.aspx  

Bruhn, J?rgen Anne Gjelsvik Henriette Thune ”Parallel worlds of possible meetings in Let The Right One In” Word & Image A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry 

Volume 27, 2011 - Issue 1 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02666281003683882
Brunow, Dagmar: “The language of the complex image: Roy Andersson’s political aesthetics”. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 1:1 (2010), 83-86. 

Rees, Ellen. “Norwave: Norwegian Cinema 1997-2006”. Scandinavian-Canadian Studies / ?tudes Scandinaves au Canada Vol. 19 (2010): 88-110.

Dag S?dtholdt: ”Homesick” , Montages, 2016

http://montagesmagazine.com/2016/02/desperate-connections-an-analysis-of-anne-sewitskys-homesick-2015/

Marklund, Anders ”Can Anyone Help These Men? A Portrait of Men in Successful Contemporary Scandinavian Cinema”, Film International, Volume 6, Number 5, 27 October 2008, pp. 50-58(9)

Rees, Ellen. “Norwave: Norwegian Cinema 1997-2006”. Scandinavian-Canadian Studies / ?tudes Scandinaves au Canada Vol. 19 (2010): 88-110

Wartenberg, Thomas ”Force Majeure”, Philosophy Now, 2015, https://philosophynow.org/issues/108/Force_Majeure

Forthcoming :

Christer Bakke Andresen on Norwegian horror genre.

 

Additional tools/resources:

Timothy Corrigan: A Short Guide to Writing About Film (please purchase a copy!)

http://filmanalysis.yctl.org/

http://twp.duke.edu/uploads/media_items/film.original.pdf

http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2016/01/11/open-secrets-of-classical-storytelling-narrative-analysis-101/

 

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