Upplevelser av svensk film : en kartläggning av genrer inom svensk film under åren 1985–2000
Experiencing Swedish Cinema : A Survey of the Genres within the Swedish Cinema Institution during the Years 1985–2000
Författare
Summary, in English
Many of the films share characteristic features. In fact, most of them belong to, or are related to, established genres and cycles. For this reason, genre theory is presented in some detail and it is later used to analyse the various groups of films that can be distinguished. In the analysis and presentation of these groups particular emphasis has been put on narration and narratives, as well as on the different moods and worlds that are used. The groups discussed are crime films, crime comedies, relationship films (including both relationship comedies and dramas) recognition comedies, music comedies, teenage films, children’s films and history films. The most important aim of this study has been to offer a good account of these groups, and for that reason these chapters make up the largest part of the dissertation.
Nevertheless, a few conclusions about genres as a system and as part of the cinema institution are made in the last chapter. A general pattern that applies both to the genre system and to the films within each genre is that films that are facile and playful, that distance themselves from everyday life and serious matters, and that provide smooth solutions to difficult situations attract more viewers than films for which the opposite applies. Thus, within the Swedish genre system there is a strong preference for comedies of various kinds. Although comedies maintain a good position among the genres, they become less attractive after the first years of the 1990s, when Sweden entered a period of economic hardships. The opposite is the case with crime films, whose importance increased during the 1990s. The popularity of some other genres, such as teenage films and children’s films, remain more or less on the same level throughout the period. The same is true for relationship dramas and reality-based history films. These two groups of films have had difficulties attracting large audiences, without doubt because of their relatively serious nature. Their marginalised position underlines the dominance of rather light entertainment in the Swedish cinema institution during the period studied.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2004
Språk
Svenska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Critica Litterarum Lundensis
Volym
7
Dokumenttyp
Doktorsavhandling
Förlag
Comparative Literature
Ämne
- Arts
Nyckelord
- Possible Worlds
- Narration
- Popular Film
- Genre Theory
- Film Genres
- Swedish Cinema
- Historia och konstvetenskap
- 1985-2000
- Humanities
- Moods
- History and Arts
- Humaniora
Status
Published
Handledare
- [unknown] [unknown]
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1651-2367
- ISBN: 91-970946-6-8
Försvarsdatum
27 september 2004
Försvarstid
10:15
Försvarsplats
Hörsal 128, Stora Algatan 4, Lund
Opponent
- Anders Åberg (Ph D. Senior Lecturer & Head of Film Studies)