Swedish Children's Cinema

Swedish children's cinema has a long and rich history. It encompasses the rascal films of the 1920s, the realism of the 1940s, the ambitious artistic renewal of the 1970s, the child empowering films of the 1990s through the early 2000s, and the multiple, exceedingly popular, Astrid Lindgren adaptations across the decades. Devoted to exploring this cinematographic legacy, this book offersclose readings across academic disciplines, probing various genres, eras, media debates, transmediations, and audience-receptions. Childhood studies, with itscritical comprehension of society's changing notions of childhood, here serves as a key framework in fruitful combination with, inter alia,feminist, queer, intermedial, postcolonial, and eco-critical perspectives.This collection fillsan important knowledge gap on Swedish film history as well as the distinctly Nordic tradition of children's culture, andtherebycontributes to the burgeoning field of international children's cinema research. It is introduced with a foreword by Mark Cousins.