Nordic Explorations
Subtitle: Film Before 1930 (Stockholm Studies in Cinema  Distributed for John Libbey & Company)
Contributors: John Fullerton (Editor); Jan Olsson (Editor)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781864620559
Subjects: Films, cinema; History of specific subjects; First World War, 1914-1918; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Motion Picture Industry; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Performing Arts/Dance; Northern Europe, Scandinavia; Motion pictures; Europe - Scandinavia; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Film & Video - General; Silent films; History; History and criticism; Scandinavia
First sentence: The mere fact that Filmfabriken Danmark did operate in Russia has been known for years, established in Marguerite Engberg's taped interview (24 May 1955, The Danish Film Museum) with the founder of the company, Johan Christensen.
Description: "Nordic Explorations: Film Before 1930 includes twenty previously unpublished essays written for the 1999 retrospective of Nordic cinema at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Italy. The anthology brings together some of the leading research that is currently being conducted on early cinema in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, and includes essays on some of the major figures in Nordic cinema including Dreyer, Christensen, Sjostrom and Stiller.

Much of current research in Nordic film before 1930 is also represented in this anthology with studies of the Norwegian travel genre, Nordic animated film, the relation of Nordic cinema to German and Russian film, the development of educational cinema and industrial film, as well as in-depth studies of individual films, filmmakers, national styles, and the relation of the medium to other forms of popular entertainment."--Jacket.