Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorKoivunen, Anu
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-31 23:55:55
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-02 19:47:49
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T13:58:32Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T13:58:32Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.identifier617207
dc.identifierOCN: 982243299en_US
dc.identifier.issn0355-8924;1458-526X
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32111
dc.description.abstract"Films are integral to national imagination. Promotional publicity markets “domestic films” not only as entertaining, exciting, or moving, but also as topical and relevant in different ways. Reviewers assess new films with reference to other films and cultural products as well as social and political issues. Through such interpretive framings by contemporaries and later generations, popular cinema is embedded both in national imagination and endless intertextual and intermedial frameworks. Moreover, films themselves become signs to be cited and recycled as illustrations of cultural, social, and political history as well as national mentality. In the age of television, “old films” continue to live as history and memory. In Performative Histories, Foundational Fictions, Anu Koivunen analyzes the historicity as well as the intertextuality and intermediality of film reception by focusing on a cycle of Finnish family melodrama and its key role in thinking about gender, sexuality, nation, and history. Close-reading posters, advertisements, publicity-stills, trailers, review journalism, and critical commentary, she demonstrates how The Women of Niskavuori (1938 and 1958), Loviisa (1946), Heta Niskavuori (1952), Aarne Niskavuori (1954), Niskavuori Fights (1957), and Niskavuori (1984) have operated as sites for imagining “our agrarian past”, our Heimat and heritage as well as “the strong Finnish woman” or “the weak man in crisis”. Based on extensive empirical research, Koivunen argues that the Niskavuori films have mobilized readings in terms of history and memory, feminist nationalism and men’s movement, left-wing allegories and right-wing morality as well as realism and melodrama. Through processes of citation, repetition, and re-cycling the films have acquired not only a heterogeneous and contradictory interpretive legacy, but also an affective force."
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesStudia Fennica Historica
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinavia::1DNF Finlanden_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFN Film: styles and genresen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC1 Popular cultureen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girlsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF2 Gender studies: men and boysen_US
dc.subject.othermelodrama
dc.subject.otherhella wuolijoki
dc.subject.othernational cinema
dc.subject.othergender
dc.subject.otherfinnish cinema
dc.subject.othercultural memory
dc.subject.otherFinland
dc.subject.otherLoviisa
dc.subject.otherPeasant
dc.titlePerformative Histories, Foundational Fictions: Gender and Sexuality in Niskavuori Films
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.21435/sfh.7
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy51db0f72-616d-4d86-b847-ade19380e08f
oapen.relation.isFundedBy2bce7b2b-181b-47a2-a1b1-2fe3ca87467d
oapen.relation.isbn9789522227713;9789522227706
oapen.series.number7
oapen.pages425
oapen.place.publicationHelsinki
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Finland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland; Hella Wuolijoki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella_Wuolijoki; Loviisa - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loviisa; Peasant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasant
oapen.identifier.ocn982243299


Files in this item

Thumbnail

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record