Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 9.1 is now available
Intellect is happy to announce that the Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 9.1 is now available! https://www.
Special Issue: ‘Moving Images, Health and Well-Being’
Aims & Scope
Journal of Scandinavian Cinema is a double-blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to excellent research and stimulating discussion focusing on the cinemas of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, both within their national and Nordic contexts, and as transnational cinemas in a globalized world.
Issue 9.1 content
Editorial
METTE HJORT AND TOMMY GUSTAFSSON
Articles
The public value of film: Moving images, health and well-being
METTE HJORT
Evoking a shared past by enforcing nostalgia? On the role of media in nursing homes
CHRISTA LYKKE CHRISTENSEN
Humour, emotional well-being and the anti-heroine in modern dramedy
The introduction of bibliotherapy and its theoretical transformation to audio-visual media
Screening the population: Public information films in Scandinavian tuberculosis campaigns around 1950
C. CLAIRE THOMSON
Openings and closures: Mental health in Joachim Trier’s cinematic universe
ANNE GJELSVIK
Time, memory and actors: Representation of ageing in recent Swedish feature film
MAARET KOSKINEN
‘Guilty’ pleasures are often worthwhile pleasures
BRANDON COOKE
Using health as an argument: The Swedish porn debate 2013–18
MARIAH LARSSON
Realism or ‘grotesque clichés’? Jan Halldoff’s The Corridor and the Swedish debate on abortion in the 1960s
ELISABET BJÖRKLUND
Interview
The Face of AIDS Film Archive and cultural memories of the future: An interview with Staffan Hildebrand
DAGMAR BRUNOW AND TOMMY GUSTAFSSON
