{"title":"Teaching Nordic cinema: Perspectives and possibilities","authors":"C. Thomson","doi":"10.1386/JSCA_00027_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JSCA_00027_1","url":null,"abstract":"For the tenth anniversary issue of Journal of Scandinavian Cinema (JSCA), C. Claire Thomson reflects on fifteen years of teaching Nordic cinema at University College London (UCL). The article outlines the teaching and learning contexts in which the subject is taught, and how teaching has been transformed by developments in scholarship in the field and online resources. The constraints and opportunities offered by the pivot to remote teaching during the 2020 pandemic are also considered. Three extracts from essays by students are offered as illustrations of how students from different disciplinary backgrounds and different parts of the world engage with Nordic cinema.","PeriodicalId":42248,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scandinavian Cinema","volume":"10 1","pages":"243-257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41939499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The wondering aspect: Feminist auteur Anne Haugsgjerd","authors":"Oda Bhar","doi":"10.1386/JSCA_00032_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JSCA_00032_1","url":null,"abstract":"This chronological consideration of the films of feminist auteur Anne Haugsgjerd contextualizes her oeuvre in Norwegian and Scandinavian film history. Pointing to influences such as the Belgian-Swedish filmmaker Eric M. Nilsson and the mythology of Marilyn Monroe, it is argued that her narrative voice combines vulnerability and open-mindedness. She expresses herself in a hybrid and montage-based cinematic language, often with a humorous, essayistic voice-over. Her quirky approach touches upon the absurdity of daily life, exposing her personal flaws in a manner similar to that of such younger contemporary actors/directors as Miranda July or Lena Dunham.","PeriodicalId":42248,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scandinavian Cinema","volume":"10 1","pages":"287-296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41523299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A decade with JSCA: An anniversary editorial","authors":"Anders Marklund","doi":"10.1386/JSCA_00024_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JSCA_00024_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42248,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scandinavian Cinema","volume":"10 1","pages":"221-223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43083208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anthropocene slow TV: Temporalities of extinction in Svalbard","authors":"J. Leyda, Sara Brinch","doi":"10.1386/JSCA_00033_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JSCA_00033_1","url":null,"abstract":"In Norway, slow television, an internationally popular format that approaches Nordic noir in export value, has been primarily concerned with entertaining viewers by showing Norwegians (and interested outsiders) their own country. The January 2020 NRK release of its slow TV programme Svalbard minutt for minutt (Svalbard Minute by Minute) focuses on this Arctic region, juxtaposing striking images of its native fauna with the remarkably well-preserved ecological crime scenes of its Anthropocene pasts. Svalbard Minute by Minute constitutes a daring mash-up of nation-branding nature programme and extractivist history documentary, via both non-fiction modes of place and process views, in which the two strains reinforce one another to pose difficult questions about the future for viewing audiences.","PeriodicalId":42248,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scandinavian Cinema","volume":"10 1","pages":"297-309"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47358590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Voices, faces, places: Life in Frogner","authors":"M. Lund","doi":"10.1386/JSCA_00031_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JSCA_00031_1","url":null,"abstract":"This examination of Anne Haugsgjerd’s first short film, Livet på Frogner (Life in Frogner) (1986) views it as a postmodern project. In many ways it pioneered an aesthetic mode that became more prominent in Norwegian film decades later – the genre-expanding hybrid film – while also using the female voice-over in new and experimental ways.","PeriodicalId":42248,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scandinavian Cinema","volume":"10 1","pages":"281-285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42367087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The cultural and social memory of film history online: Norwegian educational films on YouTube","authors":"Eirik Frisvold Hanssen","doi":"10.1386/JSCA_00028_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JSCA_00028_1","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I identify forms of cultural and social memory, represented by a number of digitized Norwegian educational films on traditional crafts published on the YouTube channel of the National Library of Norway and how the online dissemination of analogue film history might impact notions of memory. This discussion is placed within the context of earlier JSCA articles on film archives.","PeriodicalId":42248,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scandinavian Cinema","volume":"10 1","pages":"259-269"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48466548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Focus: Anne Haugsgjerd","authors":"Gunnar Iversen","doi":"10.1386/JSCA_00029_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JSCA_00029_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42248,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scandinavian Cinema","volume":"10 1","pages":"271-272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43783748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Like Huginn and Muninn? Cinema studies and Scandinavian studies as Kulturwissenschaft","authors":"S. Schröder","doi":"10.1386/JSCA_00026_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JSCA_00026_1","url":null,"abstract":"As ‘Scandinavian cinema’ is the subject both of cinema studies and Scandinavian studies, this article discusses their relationship in the past and present. The primary focus is on their differing approaches as well as possible synergies between these two disciplines with regard to the study of Scandinavian cinema. Scandinavian studies is a necessary supplement and a support to cinema studies, while engaging with cinema is at the same time both an opportunity to take the transition to Scandinavian studies as Kulturwissenschaft seriously and to attract students interested in media.","PeriodicalId":42248,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scandinavian Cinema","volume":"10 1","pages":"235-242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48500412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vulnerable exposures: A conversation with Norwegian filmmaker Anne Haugsgjerd","authors":"Adriana Margareta Dancus","doi":"10.1386/JSCA_00030_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JSCA_00030_7","url":null,"abstract":"Since the 1980s, the quirky and explorative filmmaker Anne Haugsgjerd has experimented with staging her own vulnerability in front of the camera and is thus a pioneer of self-mediation in Norwegian film. In this interview, Haugsgjerd talks about how she developed her unique approach to making film, including a questioning and uncertain voice-over that has become her signature. In addition to situating her own film practice in a Norwegian and international context, Haugsgjerd reflects on ethical issues pertaining to self-mediation, shares anecdotes that speak of the popular appeal of her films and discusses challenges and opportunities connected to making and distributing films like hers to national and international audiences.","PeriodicalId":42248,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scandinavian Cinema","volume":"10 1","pages":"273-279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47668466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Journal of Scandinavian Cinema turns ten: About the past and for the future","authors":"C. Holmlund, Andrew Nestingen","doi":"10.1386/JSCA_00025_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JSCA_00025_1","url":null,"abstract":"Chris Holmlund and Andrew Nestingen have long been involved with the Journal of Scandinavian Cinema (JSCA) – Chris since 2013, Andy since the journal’s inception in 2010. This article reviews trends in the journal’s first decade and identifies areas where more scholarship would be welcome. JSCA has built a reputation for excellence and is the authoritative publication on cinema and media of the Nordic region. Special Issues, articles on the representation of sexuality and discussions of national cinema constitute valuable contributions. There have been many excellent articles on male auteurs, and several articles on popular cinema. Women auteurs remain underrepresented; more research on television and media and additional studies of race and ethnicity in all media are needed. The authors encourage JSCA and its contributors to continue to build alliances with film studies organizations in Europe, North America, South America and Asia.","PeriodicalId":42248,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scandinavian Cinema","volume":"10 1","pages":"225-234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48060501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}