Overview
- Examines the spatial poetics and architectural landmarks in the Øresund region
- Uses an interdisciplinary lens, combining screen studies and cultural studies
- Combines formal analyses of lesser-known Swedish and Danish films with current developments in regional geopolitics
Part of the book series: Palgrave European Film and Media Studies (PEFMS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Regions and Regioscapes on Film
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Urban Documentary Interventions
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Short Films in a Maritime Region
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About this book
This book explores a range of lesser-known documentaries and short films from the transnational Øresund region released in the period 2000–2009, focusing on how this Scandinavian region’s urban and maritime spaces, iconic architecture, and peripheral communities across Malmö and Copenhagen have been imagined and critiqued through film. This is the first book to widen the critical gaze beyond popular representations to examine a significant body of peripheral films produced in and about the metropolitan Øresund region. Emerging at a time of spatial transformation and geopolitical change, these films weave alternative narratives that confront the official rhetoric of transnational regionalism. Offering the concept of regioscape as a way to investigate the intimate relationship between artistic representation, screen policy, space, and the region-building project, this book presents new readings of films by contemporary Swedish and Danish filmmakers such as Fredrik Gertten, Kolbjörn Guwallius, Daniel Dencik, and Max Kestner.
Reviews
“Lucidly written, and offering percipient analyses of a range of fascinating documentaries and short films, this original and insightful book examines the role of film as a key tool of regional policymakers and as a creative space in which the lived experience of a new region can take imaginative shape.” (C. Claire Thomson, Professor of Cinema History, UCL)
“Chow’s work on regioscapes shows how audiovisual media is closely interwoven with regional place-making. This fascinating book provides us with critical and pivotal insights into the screen mediations and counter-narratives of the ambitious political, economic and cultural construction that is the Øresund region.” (Anne Marit Waade, Professor of Global Media Industries, Aarhus University, Denmark)
“Pei-Sze Chow’s novel and insightful analysis of cinematic engagements with the Øresund region provides an important intervention in studies of place and locality in transnational film culture. By discussing well-known examples of popular culture representing the region (most obviously with The Bridge) as well as in-depth analysis of a wide range of documentary and short films, it evokes the concept of regioscape to evaluate how film production both reflects and contributes to the ‘imagining’ of regions. The study uses a wide range of methodological approaches to capture this from close textual analysis to policy and industrial considerations in regional film production. Through this, the book provides new insight into studies of place and landscape in film, regional (and national) film culture, Nordic media studies, documentary film, as well as short film studies.” (Pietari Kääpä, Associate Professor of Media and Communications, University of Warwick, UK)Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Pei-Sze Chow is Assistant Professor of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her interdisciplinary research takes a spatial, media-geographic approach to studying film cultures, focusing on the cinemas of peripheral regions and nations, diversity and representation, and transnationalism. She is the co-editor of A History of Danish Cinema (2021) and has published work on Nordic noir and geopolitics, architecture on film, and more recently on algorithms in film production.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transnational Screen Culture in Scandinavia
Book Subtitle: Mediating Regional Space and Identity in the Øresund Region
Authors: Pei-Sze Chow
Series Title: Palgrave European Film and Media Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85179-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85178-1Published: 29 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85179-8Published: 28 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-615X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6168
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 139
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Cinema and TV, Audio-Visual Culture, Screen Studies