Books written by Mette Hjort

A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value

Ethical understanding and moral evaluation are not achieved solely by reflective reasoning, but by moral intuitions that are informed by social and cultural norms and values and are followed by slower, conscious cognitive processes of ...
Cinema and Nation

Cinema and Nation considers the ways in which film production and reception are shaped by ideas of national belonging and examines the implications of globalisation for the concept of national cinema.
Cinema of Small Nations

According to critic Tahar Chikhaoui, each new Tunisian film re-awakens the nationally shared dream of the perfect cinematic work;2 both the government and the public yearn for that special local film that can generate a general feeling ...
Stanley Kwan's Center Stage

Hjort argues that Stanley Kwan's contribution in Center Stage is to develop an approach to nonfiction filmmaking that is realist without being naïve.
Cinema and Nation

This territorialisation makes cinema into a historical subject. It stands for the nation - it is a means by which the nation can represent itself to itself (qua subject) and to its subjects (as object). This produces a narcissistic, ...
Film and Risk

An interdisciplinary collection exploring the many ways risk plays a role in film.
The Danish Directors: Dialogues on a Contemporary National Cinema

In response to the resurgence of Danish film, this book presents a collection of in-depth interviews with nineteen of Denmark's finest film-makers.
Small Nation, Global Cinema: The New Danish Cinema

Investigates the relationship between globalization and the New Danish Cinema.
A Companion to Nordic Cinema

Norsk filmhistorie: Spillefilmen 1911–2011. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. Penke, Niels, ed. 2013. ... Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. Witoszek, Nina. 1998. Norske naturmytologier: Fra Edda tiløkofilosofi. Oslo: Pax.
A Companion to Nordic Cinema

Nordic Exposures: Scandinavian Identities in Classical Hollywood Cinema. Seattle: University of Washington Press. This book includes individual case study chapters on Victor Sjöström, Mauritz Stiller, Greta Garbo, and Warner Oland.
Creativity and Academic Activism: Instituting Cultural Studies

Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education. London: Routledge, 1999. Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). “West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong, 2009.
A Companion to Nordic Cinema

... Nordic Explorations: Film Before 1930. Sydney, John Libbey. Important anthology with a variety of useful essays. Published in connection with the 1999 Poredenone Silent Film Festival retrospective of Nordic cinema of the 1920s. Larsson ...
African Cinema and Human Rights

The contributors to this volume identify three key ways in which film can achieve these goals: Documenting human rights abuses and thereby supporting the claims of victims and goals of truth and reconciliation within larger communities ...
Emotion and the Arts

The only work of its kind, this exciting collection assembles a number of analytically minded philosophers, psychologists, and literary theorists, all of whom seek to provide fine-grained accounts of critical problems having to do with ...
African Cinema and Human Rights

The contributors to this volume identify three key ways in which film can achieve these goals: documenting human rights abuses and thereby supporting the claims of victims and goals of truth and reconciliation within larger communities; ...
Purity and Provocation: Dogma 95

The audacious, attention-grabbing, tongue-in-cheek filmmaker's manifesto that was Dogme 95 has had a massive international impact. Coinciding with the arrival of cut-price digital technology the aesthetic creed proposed by Thomas...
Lone Scherfig's Italian for Beginners

... Books, 1951. Holden, Stephen. “Finding the Right Spark for a Guy with a Problem.” New York Times, January 18, 2002 ... The Name of This Book Is Dogme95. London: Faber and Faber, 2000. Kentorp, Maria. “Det er ren pigeflid” [It's All ...
The Danish Directors 2: Dialogues on the New Danish Fiction Cinema

... things eventually , but I don't really want to get involved with budgets . They take my focus off the most important things , and when that happens I start thinking about the story in terms of what's possible and what's impossible ...