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Welcome Home Mr Swanson: Swedish Emigrants and Swedishness on Film
Ann-Kristin Wallengren
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Paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: APFA; HBJD; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 360.
Between 1840 and 1940, over one million people emigrated from Sweden to America. The fact that so many chose to leave to seek a better life across the Atlantic was a major trauma for the Swedish nation. Filmmakers were not slow to pick up on an exodus that proved to be of lasting importance for the Swedes' national identity. In Welcome Home Mr Swanson, the film studies scholar Ann-Kristin Wallengren analyses the ways in which Swedish emigrants and Swedish-American returnees are depicted in Swedish film between 1910 and 1950, continuing on to recent films and television shows. Were Sweden's emigrants ... Read more
Between 1840 and 1940, over one million people emigrated from Sweden to America. The fact that so many chose to leave to seek a better life across the Atlantic was a major trauma for the Swedish nation. Filmmakers were not slow to pick up on an exodus that proved to be of lasting importance for the Swedes' national identity. In Welcome Home Mr Swanson, the film studies scholar Ann-Kristin Wallengren analyses the ways in which Swedish emigrants and Swedish-American returnees are depicted in Swedish film between 1910 and 1950, continuing on to recent films and television shows. Were Sweden's emigrants ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Nordic Academic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
326 g
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
Lund, Sweden
ISBN
9789187675119
SKU
V9789187675119
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Ref
99-3
About Ann-Kristin Wallengren
Ann-Kristin Wallengren is a professor of film studies at Lund University in Sweden. She has written a number of books and articles on Swedish film, television, and music from perspectives such as national and cultural identity, representation, ideology, and transnationality. She lives in Lund, Sweden.
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