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Pietari Kaapa <[log in to unmask]>
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Call for proposals to Film International

Hollywood and the Norden

Nordic cinema is receiving increased prestige in academic studies as well as
in the global marketplace. Several recent publications have suggestively
situated Nordic cinemas in a global framework (Mette Hjort's Small Nation,
Global Cinema: The New Danish Cinema, 2007) or explored transnational
dimensions of these cinemas (Andrew Nestingen and Trevor Elkington's
Transnational Cinema in a Global North, 2005). However, one area remains
largely unexplored: the relationship between Hollywood and Nordic cinemas.
As elsewhere, Hollywood maintains a substantial market share of the domestic
box office and clearly influences the development of formative and narrative
styles of both popular and art cinemas in these nations. Even when Nordic
directors and film stars have ventured into Hollywood, this alleged
'colonialisation effect' has been claimed to suppress any cultural origins
of 'Nordicness', simply squeezing their work into the monolithic Hollywood
entity that restricts any authorial vision and enforces conditions of
cultural and economic imperialism. Certain Nordic directors have met with
relative success (Renny Harlin, Lasse Hallström), while others have
encountered problems with the system (Ole Bornedal, Bille August). We have
also seen several adaptations of key Nordic films, occasionally by the
directors of the original product (Bornedal's Night Watch, 1997), but
predominantly by a Hollywood studio that arguably dilutes much of the
original content (Pathfinder, 2007). Some popular Nordic films (Let the
Right One In, 2008) have been commercial hits on the American art house
circuit, but are nevertheless remade to suit a mainstream audience (Let Me
in, 2010). These complex patterns of cross-cultural and transnational
interaction shed light on many key debates in film studies, and we encourage
approaches that seek to interrogate any notion of 'Nordicness' in Hollywood,
but also how Hollywood responds to and incorporates the Nordic element.

Film International (published by Intellect UK) is dedicating a special
journal issue to 'Hollywood and the Norden' and cordially invites proposals
on this theme. Studies of contemporary cultural interactions between
Hollywood and the Norden in a broad sense are welcome. Possible areas
include, but are not limited to:

- Contemporary Nordic directors in Hollywood
- Hollywood adaptations of specific Nordic film texts
- Nordic film stars in Hollywood
- reception studies of Nordic film in the US and their remakes
- images of the Norden in Hollywood cinema
- audience studies
- cultural policy
- the Nordic welfare state and Hollywood
- ideological transmutations

Email proposals or summaries (no more than 300 words), together with a
bibliography of 3-4 titles, to the editors of the special issue,
[log in to unmask] (Lund University) and
[log in to unmask] (University of Nottingham Ningbo), no later
than March 1, 2010.

Completed articles should not be more than 5,000 words, including
references, and sent to the editors by September 1, 2010. Accepted and
revised contributions will be due by December 1, 2010, with the issue
scheduled to appear in the spring of 2011.

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