ReFocus: The Films of Susanne Bier
Missy Molloy, Mimi Nielsen, and Meryl Shriver-Rice
Abstract
The award-winning Danish director Susanne Bier has become increasingly known for her generic innovations and industrial fluidity, moving confidently between cinema and television at a time where the scarcity of women directors has become a subject of major critical and popular attention. Refocus: The Films of Susanne Bier is a dynamic, scholarly engagement with Bier’s work, and a timely consideration of her impressive authorial achievements. Featuring essays from both recognised and up-and-coming scholars in Scandinavian, transnational and feminist film and media studies, this book also includ ... More
The award-winning Danish director Susanne Bier has become increasingly known for her generic innovations and industrial fluidity, moving confidently between cinema and television at a time where the scarcity of women directors has become a subject of major critical and popular attention. Refocus: The Films of Susanne Bier is a dynamic, scholarly engagement with Bier’s work, and a timely consideration of her impressive authorial achievements. Featuring essays from both recognised and up-and-coming scholars in Scandinavian, transnational and feminist film and media studies, this book also includes an original interview with Bier, addressing some of the provocative readings of her films advanced by the volume’s contributors.
Keywords:
Susanne Bier,
Danish cinema,
Swedish cinema,
Scandinavian cinema,
women directors,
world cinema,
cinematic authorship
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781474428729 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: January 2019 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428729.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Missy Molloy, editor
Victoria University of Wellington
Mimi Nielsen, editor
University of Washington, Seattle
Meryl Shriver-Rice, editor
University of Miami
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