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Sweden’s early film industry was dominated by Swedish Biograph. It is nostalgically remembered as the generative site of a nascent national artform, encapsulating a quintessentially Nordic aesthetic. Film scholar Jan Olsson takes a hard look at this established, romanticized narrative and offers a far more complete, complex, and nuanced story.

Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Concepts and Considerations: An Introduction
  • 1 Business and Economics
  • 2 Starting Up the LidingÖ Studio
  • 3 Novel Production Practices: 1913
  • 4 Productions and Alliances: 1914–1916
  • 5 Conceptual Indicators of Changes in Film Style
  • 6 From “Nonsense to Film Art: Historiographic Negotiations
  • 7 Critical Recognition and Commercial Misgivings: Responses from Key Markets
  • 8 Crossroads: From LidingÖ to Berlin via Dalecarlia and London
  • 9 Archival Practices: From the Swedish Film Society and First-Generation Scholarship to the Swedish Film Institute
  • Conclusion

    Appendix 1. Intertitles and Other Indications of Temporal Shifts Between Reels in Films from 1912 to 1916

  • Appendix 2. Svensk Filmindustri’s Educational Department Catalogs
  • Appendix 3. Directors at the SB Studio (Apart from SjÖstrÖm and Stiller)
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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        Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
        Published 30 December 2022
        ISBN-13 9780299339906
        978-0299339906
        ISBN-10 0299339904
        Also in:
        Filmmaking and production

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Sweden’s early film industry was dominated by Swedish Biograph. It is nostalgically remembered as the generative site of a nascent national artform, encapsulating a quintessentially Nordic aesthetic. Film scholar Jan Olsson takes a hard look at this established, romanticized narrative and offers a far more complete, complex, and nuanced story.

        Table of Contents
        • List of Illustrations
        • Acknowledgments
        • Concepts and Considerations: An Introduction
        • 1 Business and Economics
        • 2 Starting Up the LidingÖ Studio
        • 3 Novel Production Practices: 1913
        • 4 Productions and Alliances: 1914–1916
        • 5 Conceptual Indicators of Changes in Film Style
        • 6 From “Nonsense to Film Art: Historiographic Negotiations
        • 7 Critical Recognition and Commercial Misgivings: Responses from Key Markets
        • 8 Crossroads: From LidingÖ to Berlin via Dalecarlia and London
        • 9 Archival Practices: From the Swedish Film Society and First-Generation Scholarship to the Swedish Film Institute
        • Conclusion

          Appendix 1. Intertitles and Other Indications of Temporal Shifts Between Reels in Films from 1912 to 1916

        • Appendix 2. Svensk Filmindustri’s Educational Department Catalogs
        • Appendix 3. Directors at the SB Studio (Apart from SjÖstrÖm and Stiller)
        • Notes
        • Selected Bibliography
        • Index

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