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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; 1. The movies and emigration to America
- An introduction; 2. Betraying the nation
- Emigration to America; Attitudes to emigration; The movies and anti-emigration propaganda; Emigranten, Amuletten, and other emigration films; The criminal emigrant; Good emigrants in documentaries; 3. Celebrating Swedishness
- Representing the Swedish American; Swedish American returnees; Stereotypical signs of Americanization; 'Very welcome home, Mr Swanson'-the dream of the dollar millionaire; The Swedish American woman; The Swedish American as modernizer.
- Swedishness and other ethnicitiesAdvancing on America; Visitors in later years; Film and the nation-concluding remarks; 4. Preserving Swedishness in the New World
- Swedish film in Swedish America; Culture and Swedish American identity ; Distribution and screening; Sweden films; Heritage films; Comedies, dramas, and all things Swedish; Loving Edvard Persson; Swedish Americans and films from their homeland-concluding remarks; 5. Becoming an American citizen
- The Swedish American woman in American film; Swedish Americans and ethnicity in American film; The Swedish female emigrant.
- Deterrence: the white slave trade and Traffic in SoulsThe Swedish female stereotype, or, Sweedie, the Swedish Maid; Citizens and politicians-Annie was a Wonder and The Farmer's Daughter; Citizenship, Swedish performativity, and cinema since 1950; 6. Concluding words; Notes; Sources and literature; Index.