History of Swedish Experimental Film Culture

Lars Gustaf Andersson is Associate Professor in Film Studies at Lund University.John Sundholm is Associate Professor in Film Studies at Karlstad University.Astrid Söderbergh Widding is Professor of Cinema Studies at Stockholm University.

• Contents1. The Writing of a History of Swedish Experimental Film2. Swedish Experimental Film until the1950s3. The Emergence of Experimental Film4. The Art Movements of the 1960s5. The Extension of Independent Film Production6. The Expanded Field of the Experimental Moving Image

"A publication of A History of Swedish Experimental Film: From Early Animation to Video Art opens a new realm of cinema to the rest of the world. Its generous and catholic history of the various kinds of non-industrial cinemas in Sweden - of the films, filmmakers and the cultures they sustained - is informed by scholarship in several languages and buoyed by profound insight, but also by grace and enthusiasm. A brilliant contribution to the decentering of accounts of the avant-garde, it is sure to provide a generative model for parallel historiographical undertakings in other places." -David E. James, University of Southern California, Los Angeles