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  • Scandinavian Crime Fiction

    Edited by Paula Arvas, Andrew Nestingen ...
    Series series International Crime Fictions
    This collection of articles studies the development of crime fiction in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden since the 1960s, offering the first English-language study of this widely read and influential form. Since the first Martin-Beck novel of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö appeared in 1965, the socially-critical crime novel has figured prominently in Scandinavian culture, and found ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cinema of Aki Kaurismäki

    Contrarian Stories

    by Andrew Nestingen ...
    Series series Directors' Cuts
    Aki Kaurismäki is an enigma, an eminent auteur who claims his films are a joke. Since 1983, Kaurismäki has produced classically-styled films filled with cinephilic references to film history. He has earned an international art-house audience and many prizes, influencing such directors as Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino, and Wes Anderson. Yet Kaurismäki is often depicted as the loneliest, most ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Not-Quite Child

    Colonial Histories, Racialization, and Swedish Exceptionalism

    by Liina-Ly Roos, Andrew Nestingen ...
    Series series New Directions in Scandinavian Studies
    Examines Swedish depictions of childhood that expose the country's colonial past and racial hierarchiesFigures like Pippi Longstocking and Greta Thunberg exemplify an ideal mainstream Swedish childhood: they are autonomous, competent, and the voices of moral truths. In this innovative work, Liina-Ly Roos analyzes the figure of the “not-quite child”—children who, while appearing white, have been ... Read more

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  • Tove Jansson

    Literature and Art

    Edited by Dr Jussi Ojajärvi, Dr Ralf Kauranen, Professor Andrew Nestingen, Dr, Prof Kasimir Sandbacka, Dr Kukku Melkas ...
    A deep-dive into the work of Tove Jansson (1914–2001), the Finland-Swedish author and visual artist who created The Moomins, this book considers her novels, short stories, picturebooks, comics, illustrations and paintings to provide a comprehensive overview of her genre and form defying career.With work ranging from the ironic to melancholy, playful to wise and reaching from the heights and ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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  • The Predicament of Privilege

    Inequality and Ambivalence in Contemporary Scandinavian Culture

    by Devika Sharma, Andrew Nestingen ...
    Series series New Directions in Scandinavian Studies
    Is privilege a problem? Scandinavians ask, Is this okay?—and wrestle with the answerA twenty-first century paradox has emerged in contemporary Scandinavian societies: the region’s deeply ingrained egalitarian ideals exist uneasily alongside its undeniable global privilege. In The Predicament of Privilege, Devika Sharma examines this tension, exploring how a well-intentioned desire to “do good” ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Nordic Noir, Adaptation, Appropriation

    Edited by Linda Badley, Andrew Nestingen, Jaakko Seppälä ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book argues that adaptation is an underrecognized yet constitutive element of Nordic noir. In so doing, it reframes the prevailing critical view. Now celebrated for its global sweep, Nordic noir is equally a transmedial phenomenon. Nordic Noir, Adaptation, Appropriation deploys the tools of current adaptation studies to undertake a wide-ranging transcultural, intermedial exploration, adding ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Sámi Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North

    by Thomas A. DuBois, Andrew Nestingen, Coppélie Cocq Gelfgren ...
    Series series New Directions in Scandinavian Studies
    Digital media–GIFs, films, TED Talks, tweets, and more–have become integral to daily life and, unsurprisingly, to Indigenous people’s strategies for addressing the historical and ongoing effects of colonization. In Sámi Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North, Thomas DuBois and Coppélie Cocq examine how Sámi people of Norway, Finland, and Sweden use media to advance a social, cultural, and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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  • Aesthetic Journalism

    How to Inform Without Informing

    by Alfredo Cramerotti ...
    As the art world eagerly embraces a journalistic approach, Aesthetic Journalism explores why contemporary art exhibitions often consist of interviews, documentaries and reportage. This new mode of journalism is grasping more and more space in modern culture and Cramerotti probes the current merge of art with the sphere of investigative journalism. The attempt to map this field, here defined as ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Archiveology

    Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices

    by Catherine Russell ...
    Series series a Camera Obscura Book
    In Archiveology Catherine Russell uses the work of Walter Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveology—the reuse, recycling, appropriation, and borrowing of archival sounds and images by filmmakers—provides ways to imagine the past and the future. Noting how the film archive does not function simply as a place where moving images are preserved, Russell examines a range of films alongside ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Nordic Cinema

    by Mette Hjort, Ursula Lindqvist ...
    Series Book 14 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
    A Companion to Nordic Cinema presents a collection of original essays that explore one of the world’s oldest regional cinemas from its origins to the present day.Offers a comprehensive, transnational and regional account of Nordic cinema from its origins to the present dayFeatures original contributions from more than two dozen international film scholars based in the Nordic countries, the United ... Read more

    $207.99 CAD

  • Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg

    by Darren Wershler ...
    Series series Canadian Cinema
    Guy Maddin is Canada's most iconoclastic filmmaker. Through his reinvention of half-forgotten film genres, his remobilization of abandoned techniques from the early history of cinema, and his unique editing style, Maddin has created a critically successful body of work that looks like nothing else in Canadian film. My Winnipeg (2008), which Roger Ebert called one of the ten best films of the first ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Swedish crime fiction

    Novel, film, television

    by Steven Peacock ...
    Swedish crime fiction became an international phenomenon in the first decade of the twenty-first century, starting first with novels but then percolating through Swedish-language television serials and films and onto English-language BBC productions and Hollywood remakes. This book looks at the rich history of ‘Scandinavian noir’, examines the appeal of this particular genre and attempts to reveal ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD