The films of Susanne Bier /

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Imprint:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018] © 2018
Description:	xiv, 298 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Refocus: The International Directors Series ReFocus: the international directors series.
Subject:	Bier, Susanne, -- 1960- -- Criticism and interpretation. Bier, Susanne, -- 1960- -- Interviews. Motion picture producers and directors -- Denmark. Women motion picture producers and directors -- Denmark. Motion picture producers and directors. Women motion picture producers and directors. Denmark. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Interviews.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11619812

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Varying Form of Title:	At head of title: ReFocus
Other authors / contributors:	Molloy, Missy, editor. Nielsen, Mimi, editor. Shriver-Rice, Meryl, editor.
ISBN:	9781474428729 147442872X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references, filmography (pages 283-284) and index.
Summary:	The award-winning Danish director Susanne Bier has become increasingly known for her generic innovations and industrial fluidity, moving confidently between cinema and television at a time where the scarcity of women directors has become a subject of major critical and popular attention. This book is a dynamic, scholarly engagement with Bier's work, and a timely consideration of her impressive authorial achievements. Featuring essays from both recognized and up-and-coming scholars in Scandinavian, transnational and feminist film and media studies, this book also includes an original interview with Bier, addressing some of the provocative readings of her films advanced by the contributors.

Table of Contents:

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Introduction: Susanne Bier's Boundary-crossing Screen Authorship
Part 1. Generic and Industrial Fluidity
1. Storytelling Schemes, Realism, and Ambiguity: Susanne Bier's Danish Dramas
2. Negotiating Special Relationships: Susanne Bier's Comedies
3. Susanne Bier's Hollywood Experiments: Things We Lost in the Fire and Serena
Part 2. Negotiating Identity
4. Beginning with Jewish Survival: Freud's Leaving Home
5. Stories with Queer Identities
6. Judaism and Danish Directors: The Case of Lars von Trier vs. Susanne Bier
7. Gender Equity in Screen Culture: On Susanne Bier, the Celluloid Ceiling, and the Growing Appeal of TV Production
Part 3. Authorship and Aesthetics
8. Tracing Affect in Susanne Bier's Dramas
9. Vision and Ethics in A Second Chance (En chance til)
10. The Truth is in the Eyes: Susanne Bier's Use of Close-ups in The Night Manager
Part 4. Transnational Reach
11. Cinema of the World and Women's Film Culture: Susanne Bier's Transnational Cinema
12. From Local to Global: The Bier/Jensen Screen writing Collaboration
13. Danish Privilege and Responsibility in the Work of Susanne Bier
Postscript: A Conversation with Susanne Bier Interview with Susanne Bier conducted
Filmography of Susanne Bier
Acknowledgments
Index

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