Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema

摘要

Early in the Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema, John Sundholm, one of the book's six authors, makes a curious remark: "Scandinavian cinema is, above all, a minor cinema of minor countries". This is an odd thing to say about a culture that birthed the controversial mavericks Lars von Trier and Nicolas Winding Refn, the versatile crowd-pleaser Lasse Hallstrom, and towering auteurs like Carl Theodor Dreyer and Ingmar Bergman, whose films so profoundly influenced the art of cinema that "minor" is among the last adjectives anyone would think to apply to their work.