Swedish Film and Television Culture

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Swedish director icon Ingmar Bergman. SONY PICTURES CLASSICS / WANSELIUS, BENGT/ Album / Universal Images GroupRights Managed / For Education Use Only This course is given entirely in English and takes you on a journey through the Swedish landscape within television and film provides an overview of the role of the moving image in Swedish culture and society during the last 100 years, a period when moving image culture became increasingly more important. The course can be used as complementary studies in Cinema Studies in a degree and is also taken by many exchange students and program students. "This course felt like a gathering with friends to watch movies and have a warm, respectful discussion. I felt such a pleasant learning atmosphere and got to know everything about Swedish film culture while having no knowledge of this topic before." / student in course evaluation FALL2024 The course with ca 40 students run for 10 weeks and has lectures and screenings. Screening in the big theatre "Bio Victor" with live piano to silent film and many more screenings in theatre Bio Mauritz. The course provides an overview of the role of the moving image in Swedish culture and society during the last 100 years, a period when moving image culture became increasingly more important. Swedish film and television culture is presented in relation to international trends and developments in the field. Various approaches are considered, including the analysis of formal concerns combined with different socio-cultural perspectives as well as entertainment genres and avant-garde experiment. In