#286: Nordic cinema cultures

#286:  The impact of World War II on Nordic cinema cultures

Over the last two years, an international research network has studied the impact of World War II on Nordic cinema cultures. This issue of Kosmorama presents two articles authored by network researchers:

Thomas V. H. Hagen case studies box office statistics from two Norwegian locations during the German occupation and reflects critically on whether the POPSTAT method actually teases out the preferences of cinema audiences, ie. the popularity of films, or if audiences just pick whatever is running at the local movie house for any number of different reasons:

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Prevalence Rather than Popularity? A case study of wartime film programming in Southern Norway

Sigrún Margrét Guðmundsdóttir analyses the impact of early cinema culture on Icelandic national identity as it surfaces in literature and film, and the impact of the drastically altered demography of World War II on Icelandic cinema culture and self-narration.:

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The Portal and the Screen – Icelandic National Identity and Foreign Cinema as Contagion

The network project ’Cinema, War and Citizenship at the Periphery. Cinemas and their audiences in the Nordic countries, 1935-1950’ is sponsored by the Nordic Research Council, NOS-HS.