Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Adriana Margareta Dancus, Mats Hyvönen, Maria Karlsson.
• Editors: Dancus, Adriana Margareta; Hyvönen, Mats; Karlsson, Maria
• Contents: 1. Mobilizing Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture.- Margareta Dancus, Mats Hyvönen & Maria Karlsson.- Part I: Gendered Bodies and Scandinavian Privilege.- 2. Conditional Vulnerability in the Films of Ruben Östlund.- Asbjørn Grønstad.- 3. The Mother, the Hero, and the Refugee: Gendered Framings of Vulnerability in Margreth Olin's De andre (2012) and Leo Ajkic's Flukt (2017).- Elisabeth Oxfeldt.- 4. Shared, Shamed and Archived Images of Vulnerable Bodies: On the Nexus of Media, Feminism and Freedom of Speech in Scandinavia.- Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen.- Part II: The Vulnerable Subject and the Welfare State.- 5. Nowhere Home: The Waiting of Vulnerable Child Refugees.- Odin Lysaker.- 6. Vulnerability When Fecundity Fails: Infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in The Bridge.- Melissa Gjellstad.- 7. Uses of Vulnerability: Two Eras of Social Commitment in Swedish TV-drama?.- Per Vesterlund.- Part III: Societies of Perfection and Resisting Normalcy.- 8. Vulnerability and Disability in Contemporary Nordic Literature: Linn Ullmann's Grace and Sofi Oksanen's Baby Jane.- Jenny Bergenmar.- 9. Life of a Fatso: Young, Fat and Vulnerable in Scandinavian Society of Perfection.- Elise Seip Tønnessen.- 10. Vulnerable Viewer Positions: Queer Feminist Activists Watching Paradise Hotel.- Fanny Ambjörnsson & Ingeborg Svensson.- Part IV: Mobilizing the Pain of Others.- 11. The Art of Begging.- Adriana Margareta Dancus.- 12. Partitioning Vulnerabilities: On the Paradoxes of Participatory Design in the City of Malmö.- Erling Björgvinsson & Mahmoud Keshavarz.- 13. Facing War: On Veterans, Wounds, and Vulnerability in Danish Public Discourse and Contemporary Art.- Ann-Katrine Schmidt Nielsen.- 14. The Politics of True Crime: Vulnerability and Documentaries on Murder in Swedish Public Service Radio's P3 Documentary.- Mats Hyvönen, Maria Karlsson & Madeleine Eriksson.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (324 pages)
• Subjects: Culture-Study and teaching; Motion pictures--European influences; Art -- General; Foreign Language Study -- Scandinavian Languages (Other); The arts: general issues; Language: reference & general; Literature: history & criticism; Performing Arts -- General; Film, TV & radio; Arts; Scandinavian languages; Comparative literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030373825
• Related ISBNs: 9783030373818
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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