- Title Pages
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword by Andrew Nestingen
- Works Cited
-
Introduction: Susanne Bier’s Boundary-crossing Screen Authorship -
Part 1 Generic and Industrial Fluidity -
Chapter 1 Storytelling Schemes, Realism, and Ambiguity: Susanne Bier’s Danish Dramas -
Chapter 2 Negotiating Special Relationships: Susanne Bier’s Comedies -
Chapter 3 Susanne Bier’s Hollywood Experiments: Things We Lost in the Fire and Serena -
Part 2 Negotiating Identity -
Chapter 4 Beginning with Jewish Survival: Freud’s Leaving Home -
Chapter 5 Stories with Queer Identities -
Chapter 6 Judaism and Danish Directors: The Case of Lars von Trier vs. Susanne Bier -
Chapter 7 Gender Equity in Screen Culture: On Susanne Bier, the Celluloid Ceiling, and the Growing Appeal of TV Production -
Part 3 Authorship and Aesthetics -
Chapter 8 Tracing Affect in Susanne Bier’s Dramas -
Chapter 9 Vision and Ethics in A Second Chance (En chance til) -
Chapter 10 The Truth is in the Eyes: Susanne Bier’s Use of Close-ups in The Night Manager -
Part 4 Transnational Reach -
Chapter 11 Cinema of the World and Women’s Film Culture: Susanne Bier’s Transnational Cinema -
Chapter 12 From Local to Global: The Bier/Jensen Screenwriting Collaboration -
Chapter 13 Danish Privilege and Responsibility in the Work of Susanne Bier -
Postscript A Conversation with Susanne Bier - Filmography of Susanne Bier
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Gender Equity in Screen Culture: On Susanne Bier, the Celluloid Ceiling, and the Growing Appeal of TV Production
Gender Equity in Screen Culture: On Susanne Bier, the Celluloid Ceiling, and the Growing Appeal of TV Production
- Chapter:
- (p.134) Chapter 7 Gender Equity in Screen Culture: On Susanne Bier, the Celluloid Ceiling, and the Growing Appeal of TV Production
- Source:
- ReFocus: The Films of Susanne Bier
- Author(s):
Mette Hjort
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
“Gender Equity in Screen Culture: On Susanne Bier, the Celluloid Ceiling, and the Growing Appeal of TV Production” reflects on Bier’s career in light of the “unprecedented attention” recently directed at gender inequality in the film industry. Mette Hjort foregrounds, in particular, the fact that Bier’s success involved her overcoming challenges posed by both her gender and her nationality. The chapter stresses that Bier’s shifting perception of such challenges is provocative, specifically Bier’s increasingly vocal support of gender equity in screen industries. Hjort concludes by predicting the likely effects of “a broader involvement of women in the film industry,” which Bier’s career harbingers.
Keywords: Susanne Bier, Danish cinema, Women’s cinema, women’s screen authorship, gender equity
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- Title Pages
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword by Andrew Nestingen
- Works Cited
-
Introduction: Susanne Bier’s Boundary-crossing Screen Authorship -
Part 1 Generic and Industrial Fluidity -
Chapter 1 Storytelling Schemes, Realism, and Ambiguity: Susanne Bier’s Danish Dramas -
Chapter 2 Negotiating Special Relationships: Susanne Bier’s Comedies -
Chapter 3 Susanne Bier’s Hollywood Experiments: Things We Lost in the Fire and Serena -
Part 2 Negotiating Identity -
Chapter 4 Beginning with Jewish Survival: Freud’s Leaving Home -
Chapter 5 Stories with Queer Identities -
Chapter 6 Judaism and Danish Directors: The Case of Lars von Trier vs. Susanne Bier -
Chapter 7 Gender Equity in Screen Culture: On Susanne Bier, the Celluloid Ceiling, and the Growing Appeal of TV Production -
Part 3 Authorship and Aesthetics -
Chapter 8 Tracing Affect in Susanne Bier’s Dramas -
Chapter 9 Vision and Ethics in A Second Chance (En chance til) -
Chapter 10 The Truth is in the Eyes: Susanne Bier’s Use of Close-ups in The Night Manager -
Part 4 Transnational Reach -
Chapter 11 Cinema of the World and Women’s Film Culture: Susanne Bier’s Transnational Cinema -
Chapter 12 From Local to Global: The Bier/Jensen Screenwriting Collaboration -
Chapter 13 Danish Privilege and Responsibility in the Work of Susanne Bier -
Postscript A Conversation with Susanne Bier - Filmography of Susanne Bier
- Acknowledgments
- Index
