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Masculinity in the Golden Age of Swedish Cinema

A Cultural Analysis of 1920s Films

By: Tommy Gustafsson

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Masculinity in the Golden Age of Swedish Cinema

A Cultural Analysis of 1920s Films

By: Tommy Gustafsson

Swedish society underwent great changes during the first decades of the 1900s and the new consumption and entertainment culture came under fire. Children and youth--but also women and the working classes--become symbols of the forces breaking down traditional structures and values. These groups were also identified as the principal audience for the new film medium. Hence, during the silent era, film culture interacted with society at large, filling the screen with contradictory images of diverging masculinities and gender/ethnic relations. In fact, film culture became one of the most important arenas where new gender relations could be articulated. This book covers Swedish film culture throughout the 1920s. It is the first in-depth exploration of Swedish silent film culture that goes beyond the small number of canonized films of the "Swedish Golden Age" that have been discussed as "art" for nearly 100 years. The study is based on extensive research and takes all Swedish feature films produced in the 1920s into consideration, together with a large number of source materials that include fan and trade magazines, manuscripts, censorship records, government reports and some 900 film reviews.

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McFarland

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0786494786

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Nordic Genre Film

By: Tommy Gustafsson

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Nordic Genre Film

By: Tommy Gustafsson

Nordic Genre Film offers a transnational approach to studying contemporary genre production in Nordic cinema.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748693203

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9780748693207

The Politics of Nordsploitation

History, Industry, Audiences

By: Pietari Kääpä,Tommy Gustafsson

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The Politics of Nordsploitation

History, Industry, Audiences

By: Pietari Kääpä,Tommy Gustafsson

The Politics of Nordsploitation takes a transnational approach to exploring Nordic 'exploitation' films in their industrial contexts, viewing them as not only political manifestations of domestic considerations but also to position Nordic film cultures in a global context. Incorporating a wide range of films, from international cult classics like They Call Her One Eye (1974), homegrown martial arts films like The Ninja Mission (1984) to contemporary crowd-sourced fan productions like Iron Sky (2012), this volume examines the remarkable diversity of genre-based, commercially and culturally exploitative film production throughout the Nordic countries emphasized here through the term 'Nordsploitation'. This volume provides a historical exposition of largely ignored marginal films and film cultural patterns. It also outlines how influential these films have been in shaping the development of Nordic cinema. The effects are visible in the films of the new millennium as previously marginalized practices now enter the mainstream. With sharp insights and new research, The Politics of Nordsploitation redefines the concept of 'exploitation' and its role in small nation cinemas.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501327305

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9781501327308

Forays into Swedish Poetry

By: Lars Gustafsson

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Forays into Swedish Poetry

By: Lars Gustafsson

When poet/critic Lars Gustafsson was the editor of Bonniers Litterära Magasin, he was bombarded with the question, “What makes a good poem?” Forays into Swedish Poetry is his answer. The fifteen poems in this volume range across the history of Swedish poetry from the 1640s, at the beginning of the Period of Great Power, to the late twentieth century. Poets as diverse as Skogekär Bergbo, Erik Johan Stagnelius, August Strindberg, and Vilhelm Ekelund are discussed from historical, psychological, and sociopolitical viewpoints. However, Gustafsson includes only those poems he considers excellent. Each essay begins with a presentation of the poem both in Swedish and in English translation. Gustafsson’s analyses are built upon his subjective experiences with poems and poets and upon a more objective structural approach that investigates the actual machinery of the poems. Thus, Gustafsson enlightens us with his always imaginative, sometimes daring analyses, and we learn a great deal about the critic himself in the process. One of his main concerns is what he calls, in his discussion of Edith Södergran, the very mysteriousness of human existence. Time and again, Gustafsson emphasizes the enigmatic, arcane aspects of life in his analyses. In contrast, his vocabulary and approach also bespeak a constant interest in science and technology. In his introduction, Robert T. Rovinsky, the volume’s translator, presents examples of Gustafsson’s various thematic interests as voiced in his poems, several of which are translated here for the first time. While “The Machines” explores his theory of people as automatons and “Conversation between Philosophers” his linguistic pessimism, Gustafsson’s work as a whole shows his enchantment with its major theme: the intrinsic mystery of life.

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University of Texas Press

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0292749538

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9780292749535

The Nepticulidae and Opostegidae (Lepidoptera) of North and West Europe, Part 1

By: Nielsen,Johansson,Van Nieukerken,Gustafsson

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The Nepticulidae and Opostegidae (Lepidoptera) of North and West Europe, Part 1

By: Nielsen,Johansson,Van Nieukerken,Gustafsson

The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004086982).

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BRILL

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900453623X

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9789004536234

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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Funeral Music for Freemasons

By: Lars Gustafsson

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Funeral Music for Freemasons

By: Lars Gustafsson

Three brilliant and free-spirited students of 1950s Stockholm find themselves, years later, leading uncreative, dreary lives.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811210189

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9780811210188

War and Shadows

The Haunting of Vietnam

By: Mai Lan Gustafsson

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War and Shadows

The Haunting of Vietnam

By: Mai Lan Gustafsson

Vietnamese culture and religious traditions place the utmost importance on dying well: in old age, body unblemished, with surviving children, and properly buried and mourned. More than five million people were killed in the Vietnam War, many of them young, many of them dying far from home. Another 300,000 are still missing. Having died badly, they are thought to have become angry ghosts, doomed to spend eternity in a kind of spirit hell. Decades after the war ended, many survivors believe that the spirits of those dead and missing have returned to haunt their loved ones. In War and Shadows, the anthropologist Mai Lan Gustafsson tells the story of the anger of these spirits and the torments of their kin. Gustafsson's rich ethnographic research allows her to bring readers into the world of spirit possession, focusing on the source of the pain, the physical and mental anguish the spirits bring, and various attempts to ameliorate their anger through ritual offerings and the intervention of mediums. Through a series of personal life histories, she chronicles the variety of ailments brought about by the spirits' wrath, from headaches and aching limbs (often the same limb lost by a loved one in battle) to self-mutilation. In Gustafsson's view, the Communist suppression of spirit-based religion after the fall of Saigon has intensified anxieties about the well-being of the spirit world. While shrines and mourning are still allowed, spirit mediums were outlawed and driven underground, along with many of the other practices that might have provided some comfort. Despite these restrictions, she finds, victims of these hauntings do as much as possible to try to lay their ghosts to rest.

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Cornell University Press

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0801457459

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9780801457456

Bernard Foy's Third Castling

By: Lars Gustafsson

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Bernard Foy's Third Castling

By: Lars Gustafsson

Bernard Foy of the first part of the novel is a young American rabbi caught up in deadly international espionage. Part two is a portrait of the not so tranquil autumn years of an eighty-three-year-old Bernard Foy, poet and member of the Swedish Academy. The Third Bernard Foy is a brilliant, homicidal juvenile delinquent in today's Sweden.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811210863

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9780811210867

Money-Pump Arguments

By: Johan E. Gustafsson

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Money-Pump Arguments

By: Johan E. Gustafsson

Suppose that you prefer A to B, B to C, and C to A. Your preferences violate Expected Utility Theory by being cyclic. Money-pump arguments offer a way to show that such violations are irrational. Suppose that you start with A. Then you should be willing to trade A for C and then C for B. But then, once you have B, you are offered a trade back to A for a small cost. Since you prefer A to B, you pay the small sum to trade from B to A. But now you have been turned into a money pump. You are back to the alternative you started with but with less money. This Element shows how each of the axioms of Expected Utility Theory can be defended by money-pump arguments of this kind. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Cambridge University Press

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110860496X

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Smile of the Midsummer Night

A Picture of Sweden

By: Lars Gustafsson,Agneta Blomqvist

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Smile of the Midsummer Night

A Picture of Sweden

By: Lars Gustafsson,Agneta Blomqvist

In Smile of the Midsummer Night, best-selling author Lars Gustafsson and Agneta Blomqvist present a very personal guide to their Swedish homeland. Setting off from the far South, their journey takes them up to Norrland, from the farms of Scania to Laponian, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But it is the idyllic fjord in Bohulän, located in the Västmanland region, as well as Mälar Lake and Stockholm that they call home. Throughout, Gustafsson and Blomqvist are full of entertaining suggestions for excursions, including journeys through forests and moors where you can take in the odd elk or wolf along the way and visits to August Strindberg’s and Kurt Tucholsky’s graves. The first work of contemporary travel writing about Sweden by Swedish writers to have been translated into English, Smile of the Midsummer Night is a loving and poetic ode to this beautiful nation and a must-have for anyone interested in Scandinavia.

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Haus Publishing

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1909961051

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9781909961050

Final report: Nordic Platform for Mobilising Climate Finance

By: Schuurmans, Ingmar,Stjernquist Desatnik, Marie,Gustafsson, Marie,Halonen, Mikko,Sjöblom, Henrik

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Final report: Nordic Platform for Mobilising Climate Finance

By: Schuurmans, Ingmar,Stjernquist Desatnik, Marie,Gustafsson, Marie,Halonen, Mikko,Sjöblom, Henrik

Available online: https://pub.norden.org/nord2021-043/ South Pole, together with Gaia, organised the Nordic Platform for Mobilising Climate Finance during 2020/2021. The aim of the platform was to distil recommendations to the Nordic governments on how they can facilitate and catalyse low-carbon investments, in order to meet the Nordics’ climate neutrality goals. The platform brought together over 30 Nordic companies, investors and civil society organisations for two tailored webinar series; to discuss the most prevalent climate-related private sector topics, and what measures are needed from the Nordic governments. This was followed by a workshop to allow for further stakeholder discussion, and to formulate final recommendations to the Nordic governments.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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9289370734

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9789289370738

We Experienced Christ

Spiritual Encounters with Jesus Christ, Reports from the Religious-Social Institute, Stockholm

By: Gunnar Hillerdal,Berndt Gustafsson

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We Experienced Christ

Spiritual Encounters with Jesus Christ, Reports from the Religious-Social Institute, Stockholm

By: Gunnar Hillerdal,Berndt Gustafsson

‘And at this moment a peculiar, inconceivable, but wonderful thing happened. Suddenly – I assure you, completely unexpected and unwished for – I felt precisely that Someone stood beside me, Someone who radiated comfort and strength. And I heard, but without sound... as clearly and distinctly as if someone had literally spoken to me: “Do not despair, you are not alone, I am alive.”’ Curious as to what they might discover, two theologians advertised in a national Swedish newspaper for people to write in with their personal experiences of meeting Christ spiritually. They received more than one hundred rich and varied responses, even from some people who described themselves as non-religious. The reports described extraordinary, surprising and usually unrequested experiences. Most of the correspondents had not previously spoken of what had happened to them, often out of fear for what others might think. These precious and valuable experiences are gathered together here and complemented with wise and insightful commentary by the authors, Professor Berndt Gustafsson and Dr Gunnar Hillerdal, both serious academics. The accounts they present form an extraordinary testimony, which will be of interest to any open-minded person seeking truth and meaning in life. ‘It is about a number of individuals, independent of each other and not influenced by anyone or anything, who have appeared as spontaneous witnesses. One cannot bypass such a thing, regardless of any explanations and intellectual judgements. It is simply about facts.’ – Professor Boris Tullander, Ph.D., from the Foreword

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Temple Lodge Publishing

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1906999864

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9781906999865

Poverty and Low Income in the Nordic Countries

By: Björn Gustafsson,Peder J. Pedersen

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Poverty and Low Income in the Nordic Countries

By: Björn Gustafsson,Peder J. Pedersen

This title was first published in 2000: The Nordic Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers decided in 1994 to initiate and finance a comparative study to understand better the structure and development of poverty in five Nordic countries, (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden). The main question posed is how the number of people living with low incomes has changed over time and what characterizes such households.? Since no official poverty line has been defined in the Nordic countries, the comparative study examines a set of different definitions of poverty and analyzes the change in poverty rates and poverty composition in light of those different definitions.

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Routledge

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1351787950

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Why Is the Netherlands the Best Country?

On Country Comparisons Regarding the Economics of the Family

By: Siv Gustafsson

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Why Is the Netherlands the Best Country?

On Country Comparisons Regarding the Economics of the Family

By: Siv Gustafsson

Annotation. Population economics is about your own life. Issues such as: optimal age at motherhood, career planning, birth timing, marriage and divorce are questions that every individual has to decide on. All these private decisions are both influenced by the economic situation and have economic consequences. Therefore economics of the family contributes both on the micro level for individuals making decisions and on the macro level for governments worrying for example about aging of the population. Because institutional arrangements differ between countries inter-county comparisons can explain behaviour. This title can be previewed in Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789056295110.

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Amsterdam University Press

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905629511X

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9789056295110

Science in brief: OMAI – Assessing acidification in the Baltic Sea: Monitoring and scientific basis

By: Gustafsson, Erik,Gustafsson, Bo G.,Carstensen, Jacob,Rehder, Gregor

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Science in brief: OMAI – Assessing acidification in the Baltic Sea: Monitoring and scientific basis

By: Gustafsson, Erik,Gustafsson, Bo G.,Carstensen, Jacob,Rehder, Gregor

Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2021-512/ Anthropogenic CO2 emissions will – unless reduced – move the Baltic Sea towards a state where acidification leads to changes in species composition, potentially influencing ecosystem functioning. Model simulations indicate that acidification in the Baltic Sea generally follows the same trajectory as the open oceans, with a pH decline of 0.6 units by year 2200 in the worst-case scenario. The Baltic Sea is highly influenced by its catchment areas, which means that acidification trends are generally more complex than in the open ocean. Improved coverage of acidification monitoring is necessary to broaden the understanding of current trends, improve the capacity to predict future changes, and as an added value provide insight into productivity patterns and eutrophication trends. An indicator for acidification in the Baltic Sea is currently under development.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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9289369809

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9789289369800

Policy Brief TRIACID: Acidification in Nordic Waters: Status, trends and implications for marine species

By: Carstensen, Jacob,Christensen, Jesper,Gustafsson, Bo,Gustafsson, Erik,Chierici, Melissa

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Policy Brief TRIACID: Acidification in Nordic Waters: Status, trends and implications for marine species

By: Carstensen, Jacob,Christensen, Jesper,Gustafsson, Bo,Gustafsson, Erik,Chierici, Melissa

Increasing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere leads to acidification of marine waters. Ocean acidification is relatively predictable with pH decreasing ~0.02 per decade, whereas changes in coastal pH can be 10 times larger due to changing inputs of nutrients and organic matter from land and warming. Despite that most organisms affected by acidification inhabit the coastal zone, status and trends of coastal acidification as well as possible consequences for marine life are largely overlooked. At present, coastal acidification is not consistently monitored and reported in Nordic countries. The TRIACID project has developed indicators, which are applicable to assess acidification and its potential consequences, provided that pH and other parameters of the carbonate system are monitored. It is recommended to increase focus on this emerging environmental problem.

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