Tytti Soila

In the aftermath of the MeToo movement, during an ongoing pandemic, and in the midst of repeated demands for a 50/50 split between men and women in above-the-line positions, this book analyzes and interrogates the politics of gender focusing on the Swedish film industry, often considered to be the most "gender equal" film industry worldwide. While this gender equality (with a considerable proportion of women behind the camera) is much due to policies carried out of the state-funded Swedish Film Institute, women filmmakers in Sweden still struggle with the same problems as do women in other national film industries. These problems entail having smaller production and distribution budgets than men and working in an environment involving recurring scandals of gender discrimination and sexual harassment. This open access book looks behind the statistics and explores the often complex cultural, legal, and political conditions under which women have entered a male-dominated industry and discusses women’s strategies and efforts to promote change while providing evidence on how women’s presence has challenged the industry by provoking critical reactions and introducing new ways to portray women on screen. Using a wide range of different sources (e.g. archival material, laws, contracts, films, biographical materials, and interviews), the book tells the history of the rise of gender equality efforts undertaken by the Swedish Film Institute and investigates women’s possibilities to manage the rights to their work. It offers compelling portraits of pioneering women who have worked in or in relation to the industry and looks at the experiences of women currently working in the film industry. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Örebro universitet.

Högerpopulism på bild "Det är i det rumsrena och vid en första anblick oskyldiga lekandet med identiteter, känslor och behov som högerpopulismens budskap formas och sprids. Det är därför relevant att se närmare på hur spelfilmer och dokumentärer med högerpopulistiskt innehåll ser ut i en rad praktiska och empiriska exempel." Så uttrycker sig bokens redaktörer för att fånga relevansen i antologins brett formulerade anslag om högerpopulism i film. I boken medverkar historiker och filmvetare med analyser av hur filmer gestaltar och förmedlar folkets förmenta vilja; genus, våld och frihet; populism i politiska partiers historiebruk; identitet och gemenskaper i centrum och periferi, nationellt laddade landskap i svenska filmer; förintelseförnekelse, vetenskapsförakt och fascistoida fantasier. Forskning om högerpopulism är långt ifrån ett nytt område, men antologin bidrar genom att granska högerpopulistiska budskap i ett ofta förbigånget opinionsbildande material. Bokens huvudredaktörer är Björn Horgby och Cecilia Trenter. Medverkande skribenter är Jimmy Engren, Christer Ericsson, Erik Hedling, Björn Horgby, Julia Håkansson, Eva Kingsepp, Maaret Koskinen, Tytti Soila, Cecilia Trenter och Ulf Zander.

A new volume in the "Twenty-Four Frames" series that focuses on twenty-four key films from Scandinavia - Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. Each of these national cinemas is able to boast directors of worldwide renown. Such as Ingmar Bergman, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Victor Sjvstrom and more contemporary film-makers such as Lukas Moodysson, Aki Kaurismdki and the co-founders of the Dogme 95 movement - Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg and Tomas Kragh-Jacobsen. This book looks at the impact that film-makers from this region have had on their national cinema and the world of film. This book explores in detail their styles, movements and influences.