Making the invisible visible: Reclaiming women’s agency in Swedish film history and beyond - Hardcover

Stigsdotter, Ingrid

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9188661857 ISBN 13: 9789188661852

Publisher: Nordic Academic Press, 2019

Synopsis

To describe women in film history as "invisible" may seem strange as throughout film history, women on the silver screen have given audiences their version of what it is to be a woman. And as film stars they have always been associated with the glamour of the film industry - the living embodiment of female attraction and pleasure. In Making the invisible visible, however, a group of researchers dissect the underrepresentation of women in areas of film culture often overlooked. Despite some significant differences - between countries, between eras, between kinds of job - production teams and film crews have almost always been men. Still today, many film professions are dominated by men. The authors explore women s scope for action in a variety of professional roles, based for example on discussions of LGBTQ+ identities in the film industry. The texts also present fresh perspectives on women actors and the nature of celebrity.   Contributors: Elisabet Björklund, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Dagmar Brunow, Associate Professor in Film Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Eirik Frisvold Hanssen, Head of the Film and Broadcasting Section at the National Library of Norway. Christopher Natzén, Research coordinator at the National Library of Sweden. Ingrid Ryberg, filmmaker and Senior Lecturer in Culture, Aesthetics and Media - University of Gothenburg. Tytti Soila, Professor Emeritus in Cinema Studies at Stockholm University.

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About the Author

Ingrid Stigsdotter is a researcher in Cinema Studies at Stockholm University, whose interests include reception, representation and archives. She has collaborated extensively with the Swedish Film Institute on projects including I-Media-Cities (2016-2019), a research funded by the European Unions Horizon 2020 programme and Womens Film History Network: Norden (201617), a network project with funding from the Nordic Council of Ministers gender equality fund. Her current research on women and film is funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) within the interdisciplinary project Representing Women: Gendering Swedish Film Culture and Production (20182020).

Edition details

• Publisher: Nordic Academic Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9188661857
• ISBN 13: 9789188661852
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 184