Transnational Screen Culture in Scandinavia

This book explores a range of lesser-known documentaries and short films from the transnational Øresund region released in the period 20002009, focusing on how this Scandinavian region's urban and maritime spaces, iconic architecture, and peripheral communities across Malmö and Copenhagen have been imagined and critiqued through film. This is the first book to widen the critical gaze beyond popular representations to examine a significant body of peripheral films produced in and about the metropolitan Øresund region. Emerging at a time of spatial transformation and geopolitical change, these films weave alternative narratives that confront the official rhetoric of transnational regionalism. Offering the concept of regioscape as a way to investigate the intimate relationship between artistic representation, screen policy, space, and the region-building project, this book presents new readings of films by contemporary Swedish and Danish filmmakers such as Fredrik Gertten, Kolbjörn Guwallius, Daniel Dencik, and Max Kestner.

Examines the spatial poetics and architectural landmarks in the Øresund region Uses an interdisciplinary lens, combining screen studies and cultural studies Combines formal analyses of lesser-known Swedish and Danish films with current developments in regional geopolitics

Autorentext

Pei-Sze Chow is Assistant Professor of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her interdisciplinary research takes a spatial, media-geographic approach to studying film cultures, focusing on the cinemas of peripheral regions and nations, diversity and representation, and transnationalism. She is the co-editor of A History of Danish Cinema (2021) and has published work on Nordic noir and geopolitics, architecture on film, and more recently on algorithms in film production.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction: An end.- Part I: Regions and Regioscapes on Film.- Chapter 2: Screening transnational regioscapes.- Chapter 3: A region under transformation: from 'Øresund' to 'Greater Copenhagen'.- Part II: Urban Documentary Interventions.- Chapter 4: Malmö in transition: documenting the architectural region.- Chapter 5: Copenhagen dreaming: navigating the urban city.- Part III: Short Films in a Maritime Region.- Chapter 6: Short films: liminal spaces across a narrow strait.- Chapter 7: Conclusion: New beginnings. <b