Female desire, Puzzy Power and women-directed Scandinavian sex films. Issue 2 (1st June 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Shriver-Rice, Meryl
• Is Part Of: Journal of Scandinavian cinema. Volume 5:Issue 2(2015)
• Page Start: 183
• Page End: 189
• Publication Date: 2015-06-01
• Subjects: Motion pictures -- Scandinavia -- Periodicals; 791.43094805
• DOI: 10.1386/jsca.5.2.183_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2042-7891

Abstract

Sweden and Denmark have a history of explicit cinema. In the later 1990s Lars von Trier's Zentropa became the first mainstream film company to produce female audience-centred explicit movies under the 'Puzzy Power Manifesto'. Following Puzzy Power, Scandinavian women directors continue to avoid male-centred perspectives while probing the boundaries of explicit imagery that remains empowering for women.