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Seawomen of Iceland
Survival on the Edge
Finalist for the 2017 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction / HistoryThe plaque said this was the winter fishing hut of Thurídur Einarsdóttir, one of Iceland's greatest fishing...
ISBN: 9780295744216
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Sacred to the Touch
Nordic and Baltic Religious Wood Carving
With near-mythical forests of birch and pine, the Nordic and Baltic countries boast a rich tradition of religious wood carving that is in many ways emblematic of their cultures. Sacred to the...
ISBN: 9780295742434
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Christian Krohg's Naturalism
The Norwegian painter, novelist, and social critic Christian Krohg (1852–1925) is best known for his highly political paintings of workers, prostitutes, and Skagen fishermen of the 1880s and for...
ISBN: 9780295742069
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Fascism and Modernist Literature in Norway
Fascism and Modernist Literature in Norway illuminates the connections between literature and politics in interwar Europe. Focusing on the works of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Knut Hamsun...
ISBN: 9780295742298
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Roy Andersson’s “Songs from the Second Floor”
Contemplating the Art of Existence
Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson’s celebrated and enigmatic film Songs from the Second Floor, his first feature film in twenty-five years, won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival...
ISBN: 9780295998251
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Icons of Danish Modernity
Georg Brandes and Asta Nielsen
Julie Allen utilizes the lives and friendship of the Danish literary critic George Brandes (1842-1927) and the silent film star Asta Nielsen (1881-1972) to explore questions of culture and national...
ISBN: 9780295994833
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The Power of Song
Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution
The Power of Song shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a military superpower and achieved independence in the Baltic “Singing Revolution.” When attacked by...
ISBN: 9780295994529
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Church Resistance to Nazism in Norway, 1940-1945
Church Resistance to Nazism in Norway, 1940-1945 examines the evolution of the Lutheran state Church of Norway in response to the German occupation. While German Protestant churches generally...
ISBN: 9780295994543
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Nikolai's Fortune
As a child, Solveig Torvik heard stories of a lost, mysterious great-grandfather who left Finland for America to make his fortune - leaving Torvik’s great-grandmother and his unborn daughter behind....
ISBN: 9780295992334
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The Celebration)'/>Thomas Vinterberg's Festen (The Celebration)
Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg's searing film Festen (“The Celebration”) was the first film from the Dogme 95 stable. Adhering to Dogme's cinematic purity — no artificial lighting,...
ISBN: 9780295992983
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Danish Folktales, Legends, and Other Stories
Danish Folktales, Legends, and Other Stories is a collection of translated and annotated Nordic folklore that presents full repertoires of five storytellers along with extensive archival material....
ISBN: 9780295992594
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Lukas Moodysson’s Show Me Love
Lukas Moodysson is one of the most accomplished and unconventional filmmakers of his generation in Sweden. Moodysson, now well known for his English-language film Mammoth (2009) as well as...
ISBN: 9780295991801
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Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia
Fiction, Film and Social Change
Scandinavian popular novels and films have flourished in the last thirty years. In Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia, Andrew Nestingen argues that the growth and visibility of popular culture...
ISBN: 9780295988047
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Ingmar Bergman's The Silence
Pictures in the Typewriter, Writings on the Screen
Ingmar Bergman's 1963 film The Silence was made at a point in his career when his stature as one of the great art-film directors allowed him to push beyond the boundaries of what was acceptable...
ISBN: 9780295989433
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Knut Hamsun
The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance (New Directions in Scandinavian Studies)
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) was a towering figure of Norwegian letters. He was also a Nazi sympathizer and supporter of the German occupation...
ISBN: 9780295989464
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A Year in Lapland
Guest of the Reindeer Herders
As a young man American Hugh Beach went to live with the Saami reindeer herders of Swedish Lapland. His lyrically written and very personal story of trying to fit into the herding way of life is...
ISBN: 9780295980379
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Nordic Exposures
Scandinavian Identities in Classical Hollywood Cinema
Nordic Exposures explores how Scandinavian whiteness and ethnicity functioned in classical Hollywood cinema between and during the two world wars. Scandinavian identities could seem mutable...
ISBN: 9780295990453
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Dagur Kari's Noi the Albino
Dagur Kari’s Noi the Albino (Noi albinoi, 2003) succeeded on the international festival circuit as a film that was both distinctively Icelandic and appealingly universal. Noi the Albino...
ISBN: 9780295990095
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Lone Scherfig's Italian for Beginners
Lone Scherfig was the first of a number of women directors to take up the challenge of Dogme, the back-to-basics, manifesto-based, rule-governed, and now globalized film initiative introduced by...
ISBN: 9780295990446
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Carl Theodor Dreyer's Gertrud
The Moving Word
If there is one film in the canon of Carl Theodor Dreyer that can be said to be, as Jacques Lacan might put it, his most “painfully enjoyable,” it is Gertrud. The film's Paris premier in 1964...
ISBN: 9780295988542
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