The Cinema of Scandinavia

Edited by Tytti Soila

A new volume in the Twenty-Four Frames series that focuses on twenty-four key films from Scandinavia - Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. Each of these national cinemas is able to boast directors of worldwide renown. Such as Ingmar Bergman, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Victor Sjöstrom and more contemporary film-makers such as Lukas Moodysson, Aki Kaurismäki and the co-founders of the Dogme 95 movement - Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg and Tomas Kragh-Jacobsen. This book looks at the impact that film-makers from this region have had on their national cinema and the world of film. This book explores in detail their styles, movements and influences.

Related Subjects

• Film

Series

• 24 Frames

About the Author

Tytti Soila is head of the department of cinema studies at the University of Stockholm. She is the co-editor of Nordic National Cinemas (1998)

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