Nordic Explorations: Film Before 1930 (Stockholm Studies in Cinema): No. 1 - Hardcover

Olsson, Jan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1864620552 ISBN 13: 9781864620559

Publisher: John Libbey Cinema and Animation, 1999

Synopsis

Rare book

About this title

Synopsis:

"Nordic Explorations: Film Before 1930" includes twenty previously unpublished essays written for the 1999 retrospective of Nordic cinema at la Giornate del Cinema Muto in Italy. It brings together leading research on early cinema in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, and includes essays on some of the major figures in Nordic cinema including Dreyer, Christensen, Sjostrom and Stiller. Much current research in Nordic film before 1930 is also represented in this anthology with studies of the Norwegian travel genre, Nordic animated film, the relation of Nordic cinema to German and Russian film, the development of educational cinema and industrial film, as well as studies of individual films, filmmakers and national styles, and the relation of the medium to other forms of popular entertainment.The essays make a timely contribution to the more general study of cinema, afford authoritative and stimulating insight into research in the field and challenge many assumptions regarding Nordic cinema before 1930.

About the Author:

John Fullerton is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies, Stockholm University, and has published widely on early Swedish film. With Jan Olsson, he is editor of the Stockholm Studies in Cinema series, and edited Celebrating 1895: The Centenary of Cinema for John Libbey in 1998. He has also recently co-edited Moving Images: From Edison to the Webcam the second publication in the Stockholm Studies in Cinema series.

Jan Olsson is Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies, Stockholm University, and has published many books on Scandinavian cinema. Allegories of Communication: Intermedial Concerns from Cinema to Digital, an anthology of essays from a major conference at Stockholm University, is due to be published in 2000.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Libbey Cinema and Animation
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1864620552
• ISBN 13: 9781864620559
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Fullerton John