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Volume 14, Issue 3, 2024
- Editorial
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Editorial
More LessThis issue of Journal of Scandinavian Cinema features a diverse range of articles covering topics from early silent cinema to contemporary genre filmmaking. Highlights include discussions of digital restoration, cinematic influence, Sámi culture, horror in children’s cinema and film literacy. The issue also reviews new research on Carl Th. Dreyer that emphasizes the emotional aspects of his films.
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- Articles
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Upscaling Swedish Biograph
Authors: Emil Stjernholm and Pelle SnickarsFollowing a boom of user-friendly artificial intelligence tools in recent years, AI-enhanced (or manipulated) films have been framed as a serious threat to film archives. The purpose of this article is to trace and critically evaluate how AI artists use algorithmic upscaling to modify early cinema, more particularly surviving films of the film company Swedish Biograph, and how fragments of this company’s cinematic past circulate online today.
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Towards sophistication: Exploring the 1930s Finnish cinema’s ‘French style’
More LessDuring the second half of the 1930s, a particularly weighty aesthetic, called the ‘French style’, emerged in the Finnish film studios. With its expressionist lighting, in-depth staging and Dutch tilts, this style, inspired by French films, became one of the most characteristic and popular features of Finland’s classical cinema. Drawing from existing scholarship on Finnish film studios, this article explores the conditions of transfer of this specific aesthetic from France to Finland and its impacts, highlighting the economic and technical conditions underpinning this aesthetic circulation. To do so, it examines the critical reception of French cinema in Finland and compares the sociocultural issues of the two countries in order to show that, more than a style, such influences are evidence of a production model that circulates from France to Finland.
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The kinaesthetics of assimilation in Sami Blood
By Mads LarsenCinema is particularly suited for illuminating the kinaesthetic aspects of cultural subjugation. In Sameblod (Sami Blood) (2016), writer–director Amanda Kernell portrays the self-assimilatory journey of an indigenous 14-year-old girl as a result of forced and voluntary exposure to novel bodily experiences. Using as its conceptual point of departure the term ‘kinaesthesia’ – the body’s sensations of movement and spatiality – this article analyses the filmic techniques Kernell uses to offer audiences a vicarious experience of assimilation, and later, cultural revitalization. A century after majority-population Swedes subjected Kernell’s family and other Sámi to social Darwinian racism, the director’s third-eye film turns the camera back at those who portrayed them as inferior. Sami Blood exemplifies how important sensory and affective experiences are for our politics, histories and perception of cultural texts. The film is part of the past decades’ Sámi revitalization, an artistic movement in which screen media have played an important role.
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Horror in Finnish children’s cinema and film literacy: A case study of Iris
More LessThis article focuses on the cultural and aesthetic meanings of horror elements in Finnish children’s cinema, situating it within a Nordic context. Combining close reading and intertextual analysis of Ulrika Bengts’ Iris (2011), the investigation demonstrates that the horror elements are tonal, aesthetic and thematic, making the film representative of an arthouse-oriented Nordic children’s horror genre that differs in significant respects from Anglo-American children’s horror. The article also discusses the pedagogical potential of children’s films influenced by horror aesthetics and proposes a model that aligns with multiliteracy pedagogy, highlighting the active participation of the audience. This model connects the learners’ perspectives with the analytical process of acquiring film literacy, showcasing flexible approaches to understanding horror elements and their intertextuality in children’s films.
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- Book Review
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Visions and Victims: Art Melodrama in the Films of Carl Th. Dreyer, Amanda Doxtater (2024)
More LessReview of: Visions and Victims: Art Melodrama in the Films of Carl Th. Dreyer, Amanda Doxtater (2024)
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 255 pp.,
ISBN 987-0-29934-750-5, h/bk, $79.95
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