Argues that the growth and visibility of popular culture have been at the heart of the development of heterogeneous "publics" in Scandinavia, in opposition to the homogenising influence of the post-World War II welfare state. This book discusses artists, such as Henning Mankell, Aki Kaurismaki, Lukas Moodysson, and Lars von Trier.
"Volume of essays examining the transition from national Nordic cinemas to transnational and global Nordic cinema. Contributors analyze three crucial sites in contemporary Scandinavian cinema: economic change, trends and changes in production cycles, and the most important films of the decade, defined in popular and aesthetic terms"--Provided by publisher