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Welcome Home Mr Swanson : Swedish Emigrants and Swedishness on Film.
Between 1840 and 1940, more than one million people emigrated from Sweden to America. The fact that so many chose to leave to seek a better life across the Atlantic was a major trauma for the Swedish nation. Filmmakers were not slow to pick up on an exodus that proved to be of lasting importance for...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Swedish |
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Chicago :
Nordic Academic Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Between 1840 and 1940, more than one million people emigrated from Sweden to America. The fact that so many chose to leave to seek a better life across the Atlantic was a major trauma for the Swedish nation. Filmmakers were not slow to pick up on an exodus that proved to be of lasting importance for the Swedes' national identity. In Welcome Home Mr Swanson, film studies scholar Ann-Kristin Wallengren analyzes the ways in which Swedish emigrants and Swedish-American returnees are depicted in Swedish film between 1910 and 1950, continuing on to recent films and television shows. Were Sweden's em. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (237 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789187675133 9187675137 9789187675119 9187675110 9789187675157 9187675153 |