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Record Nr.

UNINA9910647300403321

Autore

Wallenberg Louise

Titolo

Now about all these women in the Swedish film industry / / Louise Wallenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2023

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2023

ISBN

1-5013-6621-1

1-5013-6618-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

791.430233082

Soggetti

Film theory & criticism

Film: styles & genres

Gender studies: women

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements Biographies List of Illustrations  Foreword Anna Serner (former CEO of the Swedish Film Institute)  Introduction Louise Wallenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden)   I.    "Frameworks: The Power of Institutions"       1.     The Sex of the Author: On authorship Frantzeska Papadopoulou (Stockholm University, Sweden)    2.     Gendering Film Distribution Frantzeska Papadopoulou (Stockholm University, Sweden)    3.     In the Crossfire: Anna Serner and the Swedish Film Institute Maaret Koskinen (Stockholm University, Sweden)     II.     "Histories, Herstories, and Representation"       4.     Women on Screen I, 1910s-1960s Louise Wallenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden)    5.     Women on Screen II, 1970s-2020  Louise Wallenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden)     III.   "Routines, Practices, and Practitioners"       6.     Making a Living: On the Working Conditions and Salaries for Actors and Extras within Swedish Film Production, 1930-1955 Tytti Soila (Stockholm University, Sweden)    7.     Bibi Lindstrom: Easy to Work with Tytti Soila (Stockholm University, Sweden)  8.     Lisa Langseth:  "Make sure that what's in your heart is done, so it doesn't drown and stay in the heart"  Maaret Koskinen (Stockholm University, Sweden)   Afterthoughts  Louise Wallenberg (Stockholm University,



Sweden)      Bibliography   Filmography   Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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 orebro universitet..