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The Life and Afterlife of Swedish Biograph : From Commercial Circulation to Archival Practices, Hardback Book

The Life and Afterlife of Swedish Biograph : From Commercial Circulation to Archival Practices Hardback

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Sweden's early film industry was dominated by Swedish Biograph (Svenska Biografteatern), home to star directors like Victor SjOEstrOEm and Mauritz Stiller.

It is nostalgically remembered as the generative site of a nascent national artform, encapsulating a quintessentially Nordic aesthetic-the epicenter of Sweden's cinematic Golden Age.

In The Life and Afterlife of Swedish Biograph, veteran film scholar Jan Olsson takes a hard look at this established, romanticized narrative and offers a far more complete, complex, and nuanced story. Nearly all of the studio's original negatives were destroyed in an explosion in 1941, but Olsson's comprehensive archival research shows how the company operated in a commercial, international arena, and how it was influenced not just by Nordic aesthetics or individual genius but also by foreign audiences' expectations, technological demands, Hollywood innovations, and the gritty back-and-forth between economic pressures, government interference, and artistic desires.

Olsson's focus is wide, encompassing the studio's production practices, business affairs, and cinematographic conventions, as well as the latter-day archival efforts that both preserved and obscured parts of Swedish Biograph's story, helping construct the company's rosy legacy.

The result is a necessary rewrite to Swedish film historiography and a far fuller picture of a canonical film studio.

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