Exposing Vulnerability: Self-Mediation in Scandinavian Films By Women

Dancus, Adriana Margareta

ISBN 10: 1783209887 / ISBN 13: 9781783209880

Editore: Intellect Ltd, 2019

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• Titolo: Exposing Vulnerability: Self-Mediation in Scandinavian Films By Women
• Editore: Intellect Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1783209887
• ISBN 13: 9781783209880
• Rilegatura: paperback
• Condizione: Fine

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Riassunto

This book explores the diversity of perspectives afforded by the emerging body of Scandinavian films produced by women. The author focuses on women filmmakers' use of their own vulnerability in representing Scandinavian experiences with globally relevant contemporary issues such as race, gender, mental illness, bullying, and the trauma of migration, and highlights the frictions between the positive and negative manifestations of such vulnerability. Though Scandinavia is reputed for its ambitious and innovative film tradition, film scholarship has largely ignored women’s bold contributions to the canon. Exposing Vulnerability is a cultural and socio-political analysis of contemporary film by Scandinavian women as they use their lives and work to reconfigure the cinematic, the political, and the ethical.
 

Informazioni sull?autore

Adriana Margareta Dancus is associate professor in the Department of Nordic and Media Studies at the University of Agder.