Refocus: The Films of Susanne Bier

ISBN-13: 9781474428729 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 304 str.

Missy Molloy; Mimi Nielsen; Meryl Shriver-Rice

Opis

Featuring essays from both recognized and up-and-coming scholars in Scandinavian, transnational and feminist film and media studies, this book also includes an original interview with Bier, addressing some of the provocative readings of her films advanced by the volume's contributors.

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Foreword
, Andrew Nestingen; Introduction, 
 Missy Molloy, Mimi Nielsen and Meryl Shriver-Rice; PART 1: GENERIC & INDUSTRIAL FLUIDITY; 1: Storytelling Schemes, Realism, and Ambiguity: Susanne Bier’s Danish Dramas, Birger Langkjær; 2: Negotiating Special Relationships: Susanne Bier’s Comedies, Gunhild Agger; 3: Susanne Bier’s Hollywood Experiments: Things We Lost in the Fire and Serena, Missy Molloy; PART II: NEGOTIATING IDENTITY
; 4: Beginning with Jewish Survival: Freud’s Leaving Home, Maureen Turim; 5: Stories with Queer Identities, Anders Marklund; 6: The Case of Lars von Trier vs. Susanne Bier, Pétur Valsson; 7: Gender Equity in Screen Culture: On Susanne Bier, the Celluloid Ceiling, and the Growing Appeal of TV Production, Mette Hjort; PART III: AUTHORSHIP & AESTHETICS; 8: Tracing Affect in Susanne Bier’s Dramas, Mimi Nielsen; 9: Vision and Ethics in A Second Chance (En chance til), Danica Van De Velde; 10: The Truth is in the Eyes: Bringing Art Cinema Glimpses to the High-end Television Drama Series The Night Manager, Eva Novrup Redvall; PART IV: TRANSNATIONAL REACH; 11: Cinema of the World and Women’s Film Culture: Susanne Bier’s Transnational Cinema, Belinda Smaill; 12: From Local to Global: The Bier-Jensen Screenwriting Collaboration, Cath Moore; 13: First World Guilt, Danish Privilege and Responsibility in the Work of Susanne Bier, Meryl Shriver-Rice; POSTSCRIPT: A CONVERSATION WITH SUSANNE BIER
, conducted by volume editors, Missy Molloy, Mimi Nielsen and Meryl Shriver-Rice; Filmography