Fredrik Ekman's Books

The Man from the Third Row

Hasse Ekman, Swedish Cinema and the Long Shadow of Ingmar Bergman

By: Fredrik Gustafsson

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The Man from the Third Row

Hasse Ekman, Swedish Cinema and the Long Shadow of Ingmar Bergman

By: Fredrik Gustafsson

Until his early retirement at age 50, Hasse Ekman was one of the leading lights of Swedish cinema, an actor, writer, and director of prodigious talents. Yet today his work is virtually unknown outside of Sweden, eclipsed by the filmography of his occasional collaborator (and frequent rival) Ingmar Bergman. This comprehensive introduction—the first ever in English—follows Ekman’s career from his early days as a film journalist, through landmark films such as Girl with Hyacinths (1950), to his retirement amid exhaustion and disillusionment. Combining historical context with insightful analyses of Ekman’s styles and themes, this long overdue study considerably enriches our understanding of Swedish film history.

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Berghahn Books

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1785332511

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9781785332517

All Monsters Must Die

An Excursion to North Korea

By: Magnus Bärtås,Fredrik Ekman

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All Monsters Must Die

An Excursion to North Korea

By: Magnus Bärtås,Fredrik Ekman

In 1948, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is founded by General Kim Il-sung. In 1978, North Korea celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of its founding, and Kim Jong-il, who at the time is the head of the Propaganda and Agitation Department, orders the kidnapping of the greatest South Korean movie star, the actress Madame Choi, and her ex-husband, the famous film director Shin Sang-ok. In 2008, North Korea celebrates its sixtieth anniversary, and Magnus Bärtås and Fredrik Ekman take a bizarre, heavily guided tour to the world’s most isolated country. In All Monster Must Die, authors Magnus Bärtås and Fredrik Ekman weave together these three stories to create a mosaic of North Korea, past and present: from the Japanese occupation to the demarcation of the border at the 38th parallel and the Korean War, the development of North Korean Juche ideology, the establishment of the Kim dynasty’s cult of personality, and the aggressive manufacturing of political propaganda, which motivated the kidnapping of South Korea’s most famous film couple. Intelligent and shocking, this book offers a rare and fascinating window into the “hermit kingdom,” and includes an updated chapter on the passing of Kim Jong-il and the declaration of his son, Kim Jong-un, as supreme leader.

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234

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House of Anansi

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1770898816

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9781770898813

Jetan

The Martian Chess of Edgar Rice Burroughs

By: Fredrik Ekman

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Jetan

The Martian Chess of Edgar Rice Burroughs

By: Fredrik Ekman

Throughout its hundred-year history, the game Jetan has influenced many writers and game designers. Invented by author Edgar Rice Burroughs for his 1922 novel The Chessmen of Mars, Jetan has been played by enthusiastic fans and serious gamers alike. This first-ever book on Jetan explores the game's rules in depth and provides new interpretations based on up-to-date research. It chronicles the game's history, explores tactics and variants and provides a complete standard for notating games. Also included are three annotated Jetan playthroughs and several practice exercises. Over 80 diagrams and photographs are used as illustrations, and an essay about Edgar Rice Burroughs' lifelong interest in sports and games further contextualizes the game.

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212

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McFarland

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1476687935

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9781476687933

Bridging the Baltic Sea

Networks of Resistance and Opposition during the Cold War Era

By: Lars Fredrik Stöcker

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Bridging the Baltic Sea

Networks of Resistance and Opposition during the Cold War Era

By: Lars Fredrik Stöcker

Tracing the origins, evolution, and goals of Polish and Estonian émigré politics in Cold War Sweden and its linkages with both the host and homeland societies, this book investigates the transnational dimension of resistance and opposition to the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. The analysis of the constantly shifting, at times conspiratorial, and even subversive networks that transcended the Iron Curtain draws a line from World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union, framing half a century of transnationally concerted political activism in a geographical context that has not received much scholarly attention. Challenging the image of the Baltic Sea Region as a periphery of the European Cold War theater, the topography of the multilayered and complex linkages between neutral Sweden and her opposite coasts suggests that the small inland sea was a particularly vibrant setting for processes that efficiently defied the rigid border regimes of the Cold War era. This book relates both to ongoing historiographical debates about the scope and extent of East-West contacts that developed underneath the radar of international diplomacy and to the question of the role, significance, and impact of émigré politics during the Cold War. Embedding the dynamics of transnationally framed opposition in the wider context of political, economic, and cultural relations at the northeastern peripheries of divided Europe, the study not only sheds new light on so far still unexplored facets of interaction and cooperation between societies in East and West, but also offers a first comprehensive synthesis of the Baltic Sea Region’s post-war history.

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381

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Lexington Books

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1498551289

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9781498551281

Prison Media

Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology

By: Anne Kaun,Fredrik Stiernstedt

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Prison Media

Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology

By: Anne Kaun,Fredrik Stiernstedt

How prisoners serve as media laborers, while the prison serves as a testing ground for new media technologies. Prisons are not typically known for cutting-edge media technologies. Yet from photography in the nineteenth century to AI-enhanced tracking cameras today, there is a long history of prisons being used as a testing ground for technologies that are later adopted by the general public. If we recognize the prison as a central site for the development of media technologies, how might that change our understanding of both media systems and carceral systems? Prison Media foregrounds the ways in which the prison is a model space for the control and transmission of information, a place where media is produced, and a medium in its own right. Examining the relationship between media and prison architecture, as surveillance and communication technologies are literally built into the facilities, this study also considers the ways in which prisoners themselves often do hard labor as media workers—labor that contributes in direct and indirect ways to the latest technologies developed and sold by multinational corporations like Amazon. There is a fine line between ankle monitors and Fitbits, and Prison Media helps us make sense of today’s carceral society.

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205

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MIT Press

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0262374331

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9780262374330

Home and Away

Writing the Beautiful Game

By: Karl Ove Knausgaard,Fredrik Ekelund

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Home and Away

Writing the Beautiful Game

By: Karl Ove Knausgaard,Fredrik Ekelund

Two world-class writers reveal themselves to be the ultimate soccer fans in these collected letters Karl Ove Knausgaard is sitting at home in Skåne with his wife, four small children, and dog. He is watching soccer on TV and falls asleep in front of the set. He likes 0-0 draws, cigarettes, coffee, and Argentina. Fredrik Ekelund is away, in Brazil, where he plays soccer on the beach and watches matches with others. Ekelund loves games that end up 4-3 and teams that play beautiful soccer. He likes caipirinhas and Brazil. Home and Away is an unusual soccer book, in which the two authors use soccer and the World Cup in Brazil as the arena for reflections on life and death, art and politics, class and literature. What does it mean to be at home in a globalized world? This exchange of letters opens up new vistas and gives us stories from the lives of two creative writers. We get under their skin and gain insight into their relationships with modern times and soccer’s place in their lives, the significance the game has for people in general, and the question Was this the best soccer championship ever?

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410

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Macmillan + ORM

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0374714649

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9780374714642

The Beartown Trilogy Ebook Collection

Beartown, Us Against You, The Winners

By: Fredrik Backman

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The Beartown Trilogy Ebook Collection

Beartown, Us Against You, The Winners

By: Fredrik Backman

Rediscover this “lyrical look at how a community heals, how families recover, and how individuals grow” (The Washington Post) with the complete Beartown trilogy in one unputdownable ebook from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman. In the “beautifully told” (The New York Times Book Review) Beartown—which inspired the HBO series of the same name—a small town obsessed with the local junior hockey team is rocked by a shocking act of violence. As accusations and rumors fly, the town must grapple with its identity as never before. Tensions rise when it’s rumored that the Beartown hockey team will be disbanded in Us Against You. The entire future of the team and the town hinges on an upcoming game that could change everything forever. Finally, the series that “deftly explores recovery and rebirth” (Us Weekly) comes to an evocative conclusion with The Winners. In the two years since the events of Beartown, the residents must face difficult questions and determine just want they are willing to sacrifice for their home.

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1605

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Simon and Schuster

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1668010984

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9781668010983

Managing.com

Entrepreneurial Business and Wired Management, Start Here

By: Fredrik Arnander

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Entrepreneurial Business and Wired Management, Start Here

By: Fredrik Arnander

Annotation European financial consultant and entrepreneur Arnander advises managers of new and old companies to pay attention to leadership, action, people, the workplace, culture, interaction, business, customers, communication, and failures. This is his first book to be translated into English. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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FT Press

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0273656066

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9780273656067

The Man from the Third Row

Hasse Ekman, Swedish Cinema and the Long Shadow of Ingmar Bergman

By: Fredrik Gustafsson

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Hasse Ekman, Swedish Cinema and the Long Shadow of Ingmar Bergman

By: Fredrik Gustafsson

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Berghahn Books

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1785332511

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Jetan

The Martian Chess of Edgar Rice Burroughs

By: Fredrik Ekman

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The Martian Chess of Edgar Rice Burroughs

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McFarland

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1476647615

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All Monsters Must Die

An Excursion to North Korea

By: Magnus Bärtås,Fredrik Ekman

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An Excursion to North Korea

By: Magnus Bärtås,Fredrik Ekman

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The Man from the Third Row

The Man from the Third Row

All Monsters Must Die

All Monsters Must Die

Jetan

Jetan

Bridging the Baltic Sea

Bridging the Baltic Sea

Prison Media

Prison Media

Home and Away

Home and Away

The Beartown Trilogy Ebook Collection

The Beartown Trilogy Ebook Collection

Managing.com

Managing.com

The Man from the Third Row

The Man from the Third Row

Jetan

Jetan

All Monsters Must Die

All Monsters Must Die

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