Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere introduces a new concept
to Nordic film studies as well as to other small national, transnational
and world cinema traditions. Examining overlooked 'elsewheres', the book
presents Nordic cinemas as international, cosmopolitan, diasporic and
geographically dispersed, from their beginnings in the early silent
period to their present 21st-century dynamics.
Exploring both canonical works by directors like Ingmar Bergman and Lars
von Trier, as well as a wide range of unknown or overlooked narratives
of movement, synthesis and resistance, the book offers a new model of
inquiry into a multi-varied Scandinavian cultural lineage, and into
small nation and pan-regional world cinemas.