{"product_id":"the-life-and-afterlife-of-swedish-biograph-from-commercial-circulation-to-archival-practices-hardback-9780299339906","title":"The Life and Afterlife of Swedish Biograph; From Commercial Circulation to Archival Practices (Hardback) 9780299339906","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Life and Afterlife of Swedish Biograph\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFrom Commercial Circulation to Archival Practices\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJan Olsson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780299339906\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 December 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages, 75 b\u0026amp;w illus\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.4 x 2.2 cm, 0.262 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSweden’s early film industry was dominated by Swedish Biograph (Svenska Biografteatern), home to star directors like Victor SjÖstrÖm 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Afterlife of Swedish Biograph\u003c\/i\u003e, veteran film scholar Jan Olsson takes a hard look at this established, romanticized narrative and offers a far more complete, complex, and nuanced story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConcepts and Considerations: An Introduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 Business and Economics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2 Starting Up the LidingÖ Studio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3 Novel Production Practices: 1913\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4 Productions and Alliances: 1914–1916\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5 Conceptual Indicators of Changes in Film Style\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6 From “Nonsense to Film Art: Historiographic Negotiations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7 Critical Recognition and Commercial Misgivings: Responses from Key Markets\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8 Crossroads: From LidingÖ to Berlin via Dalecarlia and London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9 Archival Practices: From the Swedish Film Society and First-Generation Scholarship to the Swedish Film Institute\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix 1. Intertitles and Other Indications of Temporal Shifts Between Reels in Films from 1912 to 1916\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix 2. Svensk Filmindustri’s Educational Department Catalogs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix 3. Directors at the SB Studio (Apart from SjÖstrÖm and Stiller)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52530905186584,"sku":"9780299339906","price":49.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-life-and-afterlife-of-swedish-biograph-from-commercial-circulation-to-archival-practices-hardback-9780299339906","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}