Nordic Genre Film Small Nation Film Cultures in the Global Marketplace
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Biographical note
Tommy Gustafsson is Professor of Film Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. His books include The Politics of Nordsploitation (with Pietari Kääpä, 2021), Masculinity in the Golden Age of Swedish Cinema (2014), and the anthologies Nordic Genre Films (EUP, 2015) and Transnational Ecocinema (2013), both co-edited with Pietari Kääpä. Pietari Kääpä is Lecturer in Media and Communications at University of Stirling. He is the author of The Cinema of Mika Kaurismaki (Intellect Books, 2011) and Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinemas (Continuum, 2013). With Tommy Gustafsson, he is co-editor of Transnational Ecocinema: Film Culture in an Era of Ecological Transformation (Intellect, 2013).This multifaceted – and longed-for – anthology explores Nordic film through a dynamic transnational perspective, combining thorough analytical approaches with a wide range of cultural and social observations. The texts uncover the importance of Nordic genre cinema from romantic comedy to slasher, and put its recent successes in a historical context.
- Lars Gustaf Andersson, Lund University, Sweden,
The volume stands out in its breadth of critical discussion and detailed examination of contemporary, post-2000 films and television series. What is indeed refreshing is that the chapters in this book pay particular attention to the transnational production, distribution, and reception of contemporary genre films – in part following the ‘institutional turn’ in film studies today, and in part an effort to expand our understanding of genre and its connections to regional and transnational dynamics.
- Pei-Sze Chow, Scandinavica: An International Journal of Scandinavian Studies