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Stage and Screen: Studies in Scandinavian Drama and Film
Essays in honor of Birgitta Steene
Edited by Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams and Terje I. Leiren, Stage and
Screen presents a collection of essays by many of the leading scholars
of Scandinavian drama and film who are writing today. This is an
exciting study presenting the latest research on Scandinavian
film and drama.
Published in honor of Dr. Birgitta Steene, a leading scholar of
film and drama and former Chair of the University of Washington
Department of Scandinavian Studies. Stage and Screen contains
important contemporary essays on Scandinavian film and drama. In
addition, A. Gerald Anderson has compiled an exhaustive bibliography of
Dr. Steene's publications between 1959 and 2000. An important book for
the student of Scandinavian culture and the serious film scholar.
Contents:
Terje Leiren, "Birgitta Steene: Teacher and Scholar"
Essays on Drama
- Inga-Stina Ewbank, "'Where do I find my homeland?'" Ibsen, Strindberg, and
Exile."
- Harry Carlson, "Ibsen's Mythic Ornithology: Poetic Images as Clues to
Character."
- Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams, "Delacroix's murals in Eglise Saint-Sulpice and
Strindberg's Jacob wrestles and To Damascus I."
- Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey, "The Theatrical Compulsion of Strindberg's
Charles XII."
- Otto Reinert, "Meaning Compounded: Strindberg's Charles XII and the
Question of Genre."
- Matthew Roy, "History Revisited and Rewritten: August Strindberg, Magnus Smek,
and Heliga Birgitta."
Essays on Film
- Astrid Söderbergh Widding, "Deep Staging and Light: Notes on Hasselblads
and Georg af Klercker."
- Mark Sandberg, "Maternal Gesture and Photography in Victor
Sjöström"s Ingeborg Holm."
- Tytti Soila, "Desire Disavowed in Victor Sjöström's The Phantom
Carriage."
- Rochelle Wright, "Realism Refined and Retouched: Alf Sjöberg's Bara
en mor."
- Marilyn Johns Blackwell, "Cross-Dressing and Subjectivity in the Films of
Ingmar Bergman."
- Maaret Koskinen, "Ingmar Bergman and the Mise en Scene of the Confessional."
- Egil Törnqvist, "'This is my hand.' Hand Gestures in the Films of Ingmar
Bergman."
A. Gerald Anderson, "Professor Birgitta Steene: Bibliography, 1959-2000.
To Purchase:
Stage and Screen can be purchased through the Department of
Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington for $25.00 per copy ($19.95 plus
handling
and shipping. Washington State residents please add Washington state sales
tax).
Inquiries by email (uwscand@u.washington.edu )
or by phone (+206)543-0645 or fax (+206)685-9173.
Copyright © 2000 Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
98195-3420