Transnational Cinema in a Global North: Nordic Cinema in Transition
Edited by Andrew Nestingen and Trevor Glen Elkington
Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television Series
“The film and television coming from the Nordic countries have been of great importance to world culture for many years. Now we have access to a book that skillfully blends art and politics, text and context, and region and nation. This will be a landmark text in film studies.”
—Toby Miller, Director of Program in Film and Visual Culture, University of California, Riverside
“This book contributes admirably to a revision of the notion of Nordic countries’ cinema. It presents a comparative outlook on the histories of the different cinema cultures, interrogating the effects of the escalating interaction within the European Union. In addition, by a series of remarkable analyses it introduces recent aesthetic and thematic modes in the Nordic film production.”
—Tytti Soila, Stockholm University
“Timely and informative, the expert and varied perspectives in this anthology carefully document the recent emergence of a viable transnational Nordic cinematic culture. By focusing on the unusual aspects of proximity and difference within the Nordic region, the contributors detail a fascinating test case and advance the discussion of transnational cinema beyond simple binaries of hegemony and resistance.”
—Mark B. Sandberg, University of California, Berkeley