Read Welcome Home MR Swanson: Swedish Emigrants and Swedishness on Film

Welcome Home MR Swanson: Swedish Emigrants and Swedishness on Film

Ann-Kristin Wallengren

4.9/5 (14001 ratings)

Description:Between 1840 and 1940, more than 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," film studies scholar Ann-Kristin Wallengren analyzes 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 seen as national traitors or as brave trailblazers who might return home with modern ideas? Many of the Swedish films were distributed to the United States, and Wallengren discusses the notions of Sweden and Swedishness that circulated there as a result. She also considers the image of Swedish immigrant women in American films--a representation that bore little resemblance to the Swedes' idealized view. Wallengren shows how ideologies of nationality had a prominent place in the films' narratives, resulting in movies that project enduring perceptions of Swedish national identity and the American way of life.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Welcome Home MR Swanson: Swedish Emigrants and Swedishness on Film. To get started finding Welcome Home MR Swanson: Swedish Emigrants and Swedishness on Film, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: 237

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Nordic Academic Press

Release: 2014

ISBN: 9187675153

Description: Between 1840 and 1940, more than 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," film studies scholar Ann-Kristin Wallengren analyzes 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 seen as national traitors or as brave trailblazers who might return home with modern ideas? Many of the Swedish films were distributed to the United States, and Wallengren discusses the notions of Sweden and Swedishness that circulated there as a result. She also considers the image of Swedish immigrant women in American films--a representation that bore little resemblance to the Swedes' idealized view. Wallengren shows how ideologies of nationality had a prominent place in the films' narratives, resulting in movies that project enduring perceptions of Swedish national identity and the American way of life.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Welcome Home MR Swanson: Swedish Emigrants and Swedishness on Film. To get started finding Welcome Home MR Swanson: Swedish Emigrants and Swedishness on Film, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Welcome Home MR Swanson: Swedish Emigrants and Swedishness on Film

Welcome Home MR Swanson: Swedish Emigrants and Swedishness on Film

More Books

UR-bilder : utbildningsprogram som tv-genre

UR-bilder : utbildningsprogram som tv-genre

Om tilltal, bildspråk och samhällssyn i utbildningsprogrammen

Om tilltal, bildspråk och samhällssyn i utbildningsprogrammen

Nordic Genre Film: Small Nation Film Cultures in the Global Marketplace (Traditions in World Cinema)

Nordic Genre Film: Small Nation Film Cultures in the Global Marketplace (Traditions in World Cinema)

Today's Sounds for Yesterday's Films: Making Music for Silent Cinema (Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture)

Today's Sounds for Yesterday's Films: Making Music for Silent Cinema (Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture)

Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere

Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere