The Cultural Practice of Immigrant Filmmaking

Lars Gustaf Andersson, John Sundholm

ISBN 10: 1783209860 / ISBN 13: 9781783209866

Published by Intellect, GB, 2019

This book will be released as Open Access. Based on a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council, this book examines 40 years of post-war independent immigrant filmmaking in Sweden. John Sundholm and Lars Gustaf Andersson consider the creativity that lies in the state of exile, offering analyses of over 50 rarely seen immigrant films that would otherwise remain invisible and unarchived. They shed light on the complex web of personal, economic, and cultural circumstances that surround migrant filmmaking, discuss associations that became important sites of self-organization for exiled filmmakers, and explore the cultural practice of minor immigrant cinema archiving. The Cultural Practice of Immigrant Filmmaking applies film theory to immigrant filmmaking in a transnational context, exploring how immigrant filmmakers use film to find a place in a new cultural situation. Seller Inventory # LU-9781783209866

Synopsis:

This book will be released as Open Access.

Based on a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council, this book examines 40 years of post-war independent immigrant filmmaking in Sweden. John Sundholm and Lars Gustaf Andersson consider the creativity that lies in the state of exile, offering analyses of over 50 rarely seen immigrant films that would otherwise remain invisible and unarchived. They shed light on the complex web of personal, economic, and cultural circumstances that surround migrant filmmaking, discuss associations that became important sites of self-organization for exiled filmmakers, and explore the cultural practice of minor immigrant cinema archiving. The Cultural Practice of Immigrant Filmmaking applies film theory to immigrant filmmaking in a transnational context, exploring how immigrant filmmakers use film to find a place in a new cultural situation.

About the Authors:

Lars Gustaf Andersson is professor of film studies at Lund University, Sweden. He is co-author, with John Sundholm and Astrid Söderbergh Widding, of A History of Swedish Experimental Film Culture: From Early Animation to Video Art (2010), and with John Sundholm of Hellre fri är filmare: Filmverkstan och den fria filmen (‘Free rather than filmmaker: The Stockholm Film Workshop and the independent film’) (2014).

John Sundholm is professor of film studies at Stockholm University, Sweden, and is on the examination board of the Ph.D. programme in fine arts at the University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland. He is currently researching Swedish minor immigrant cinemas together with Lars Gustaf Andersson.

Prof. David E. James is on the faculty of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. His teaching focuses on avant-garde cinema, culture in Los Angeles, east-Asian cinema, cinema and music and working-class culture. His publications include Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties (1989), Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture (1996), The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles (2005) and Rock ‘N’ Film: Cinema’s Dance With Popular Music (2016).

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Cultural Practice of Immigrant Filmmaking
Publisher: Intellect, GB
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: Hardback
Condition: New