Light in the dark : a history of filmmaking in Iceland /
"At the Edge of the World tells the dramatic history of Icelandic cinema from its modest origins in the early twentieth century to the heterogenous and complex national cinema of today. In doing so it visits and casts light on the earliest films made in the country, Scandinavians adaptations of...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "At the Edge of the World tells the dramatic history of Icelandic cinema from its modest origins in the early twentieth century to the heterogenous and complex national cinema of today. In doing so it visits and casts light on the earliest films made in the country, Scandinavians adaptations of Icelandic literature filmed during the late silent period, documentaries of the interwar era, the first narrative features following the end of World War II and national independence, the foundation of the Icelandic Film Fund and the emergence of national cinema proper in the 1980s, the subsequent impact of first European art cinema and then Hollywood genre cinema, and the remarkable international success of Icelandic cinema in the twentieth-first century"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 268 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0197762166 9780197762172 0197762174 9780197762158 0197762158 9780197762165 |