Swedish Children’s Cinema

Malena Janson is a senior lecturer in child culture at Stockholm University. Her research comprises the ideology and aesthetics of children’s cinema, representations of children in audiovisual media, and film education. She has also published extensively on the subjects of film and child culture in national Swedish newspapers and journals.

• Chapter 1-Introduction: On the history, ideology, and aesthetics of Swedish children’s cinema.- Part I: Histories Of a Nation.- Chapter 2. ‘D’ya know where they’re from?’: Migrants in Swedish children’s film.- Chapter 3. Beauties and beasts: On the child-nature relationship in Swedish children’s film. -Chapter 4. Like other kids, yet different: Sámi children in Swedish children’s film.- Chapter 5. Beyond subjugation and stereotype: The representation of girls in Comedy Queen.- Part II: Ideologies of Childhoods.- Chapter 6. The prankster, the funster, and the overhelper: The comedy of mischief in the Swedish folkhem.- Chapter 7. Foolish fathers in Swedish family film: Involved fatherhood and middle-class masculinity as spectacle.- Chapter 8. A relationship revolution: Child-centred parenthood in contemporary children’s cinema.- Chapter 9. ‘The movie ended quite well, but not that well, and I liked that because that’s how it is in reality’: Reception of and debates on Suzanne Osten’s films for children.- Chapter 10. We’ll never be those kids again: Queer perspectives on children’s cinema.- Part III: Aesthetics And Methods of Children’s Cinema.- Chapter 11. Audiovisual empathy: Adopting a child’s perspective in children’s cinema.- Chapter 12. Astrid Lindgren’s early filmmaking: Transmediations across radio, books, and moving images.- Chapter 13. Per Åhlin: The master of Swedish animation.- Chapter 14. Freedom captured: Film adaptations of Maria Gripe’s children’s books.- Chapter 15. ‘We just don’t know!’: A metamodal method for learning through film.