Often recognized as one of the happiest countries in the world, Denmark, like its Scandinavian neighbours, is known for its progressive culture, which is also reflected in its national cinema. It is not surprising, then, that Danish film boasts as many successful women film directors as men, uses scripts that are often co-written by both the director and the screenwriter, and produces among the highest numbers of queer films directed by and starring women. Despite all this, Danish film is not widely written about, especially in English. Inclusion in New Danish Cinema brings this vibrant culture to English-language audiences. Meryl Shriver-Rice argues that Denmark has demonstrated that film can reinforce cultural ethics and political values while also navigating the ongoing and mounting forces of digital communication and globalization.
Table of Content
Introduction
Chapter 1: New Danish Cinema: An Overview
Current Trends in Scholarship
Remarkable Storytelling = Result of Remarkable Production Strategy
Marrying Digital Aesthetic with Ethical Boundaries and Cultural Values
Chapter 2: Dogme Beginnings
Dogme Rules: Style and Genre
Ethics and Morality in Dogme and New Danish Cinema
Reality Aesthetic and the ‘Always On’ Culture
Chapter 3: Practitioner’s Agency: Women Directors
Chapter 4: Heterosexual Relationships
Triangular Desire and Dialectical Identity
Family and Transnational Belonging
Gender and Agency
Chapter 5: Queer Relationships
Queer Subjectivity and New Danish Cinema
Performing Masculinity and Femininity
Stereotypes and Alternative Family Structures
Individualized Desire
Chapter 6: Adapting National Identity
Adapting the National: ‘Truth’ and Story in New Danish Cinema
Trauma, Existential Crisis and Blame
Adapting the National: The ‘Hollywoodization’ of Nordic Art Film
Chapter 7: In a Better World: Empathy and Ego
Transnational Belonging and Digital Communication
Solitude and Self-Reflection
Empathy and Ego
About the author
Meryl Shriver-Rice, Ph.D., director of environment, culture and media and of the Sci Comm Incubator at the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy at the University of Miami. She is a digital anthropologist and environmental archaeologist. Dr Shriver-Rice is founding co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Environmental Media and director of the Environmental Media Lab. She is also principal investigator of the Coastal Heritage at Risk Task Force (CHART Project), building regional partnerships to recognize the vulnerabilities of community heritage assets to the impacts of climate change and seek to inform local communities of best practices when undertaking steps to preserve and protect historic and archaeological sites. She has published in World Archaeology, The Italianist and Environmental Communication. Her research interests include archaeobotany, Indigenous studies, community-based participatory research (CBPR), ethnobiology, non-traditional forms of environmental media advocacy, digital wokewashing, digital decolonizing practices by museums and heritage sites and the role of environmental archaeology in contemporary conservation.
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