Title: Nordic explorations
Description: "Nordic Explorations: Film Before 1930 includes twenty previously unpublished essays written for the 1999 retrospective of Nordic cinema at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Italy.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.
Subjects: Motion pictures, Silent films, History and criticism, History, Motion pictures, scandinavia
Places: Scandinavia