Skandinaviske fortellinger om skyld og privilegier i en				globaliseringstid

Oxfeldt, Elisabeth

doi:10.18261/9788215028095-2016

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“…2. For a much more elaborated and thoughtful background for some of these opening remarks, see Oxfeldt (2016). 3.…”

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Ecology as pre-text? The paradoxical presence of ecological thematics in contemporary Scandinavian quality TV

Bruhn

2018

Journal of Aesthetics & Culture

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The Scandinavian middle classes have been trained in feeling guilty and shameful about their social and economical privileges as well as these privileges in combinations with gender and/ or ethnicity. But "eco-guilt" or "eco-shame" has hardly been represented properly in cinema and TV series to this day. In this article, I want to offer a kind of prediction, rather than a description, of what may be an upcoming major theme in Scandinavian visual narratives: ecoguilt and eco-shame. I see signs of this in the recent TV series Jordskott from Sweden, the Norwegian Okkupert and the Danish Bedrag, but my point will be that the ecological issues here are used as a useful background or a dramaturgical starting point rather than as a major theme: as pretexts, in the double sense of the word. The use of ecology as pretext in Scandinavian TV series will be the subject of this article where I intend to focus on the way that the question of eco-guilt seems to be an alluring and tempting as well as repressed thematic, a fact that can be read out of the three series' paradoxical opening sequences.

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“…2. For a much more elaborated and thoughtful background for some of these opening remarks, see Oxfeldt (2016). 3.…”

Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecology as pre-text? The paradoxical presence of ecological thematics in contemporary Scandinavian quality TV

Bruhn

2018

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Leyda

2023

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Anthroposcreens frames the 'climate unconscious' as a reading strategy for film and television productions during the Anthropocene. Drawing attention to the affects of climate change and the broader environmental damage of the Anthropocene, this study mobilizes its frame in concert with other tools from cultural and film studies—such as debates over Black representation—to provide readings of the underlying environmental themes in Black American and Norwegian screen texts. These bodies of work provide a useful counterpoint to the dominance of white Anglo-American stories in cli-fi while also ranging beyond the boundaries of the cli-fi genre to show how the climate unconscious lens functions in a broader set of texts. Working across film studies, cultural studies, Black studies, and the environmental humanities, Anthroposcreens establishes a cross-disciplinary reading strategy of the 'climate unconscious' for contemporary film and television productions. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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White guilt and racial imagery in Annette K. Olesen’sLittle Soldier

Oxfeldt

2018

Journal of Aesthetics & Culture

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The article analyzes Annette K. Olesen's Little Soldier (Lille Soldat, 2008), from the perspective of "white guilt" (or the "white man's burden") as it is thematized in the film. It furthermore critiques the film's portrayal of the two female protagonists, Lotte and Lily, as racialized opposites. This is done from the perspective of postfeminism and critical race and whiteness studies. The readings include an evaluation of the film as a globalized, postfeminist version of Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver as well as an interpretation of the film as a national allegory. Overall, I argue that while the film contains many pertinent, well-chosen images and symbols of a destructive form of white guilt, it is ultimately based on two female figures whose opposite character traits come across as founded on, and thus also as perpetuating, stereotypical racial imagery.

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Skandinaviske fortellinger om skyld og privilegier i en globaliseringstid

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Ecology as pre-text? The paradoxical presence of ecological thematics in contemporary Scandinavian quality TV

Ecology as pre-text? The paradoxical presence of ecological thematics in contemporary Scandinavian quality TV

Anthroposcreens

White guilt and racial imagery in Annette K. Olesen’sLittle Soldier

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