Short Subject: From imperfect strangers to new citizens: Screening race and ethnicity in Nordic film history

Citation

Moffat K (2016) Short Subject: From imperfect strangers to new citizens: Screening race and ethnicity in Nordic film history. Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, 6 (3), pp. 225-233. https://doi.org/10.1386/jsca.6.3.225_1

Abstract
Minority politics has become a twenty-first century global crisis. Nowhere is this more evident than in the five Nordic nations. Looking at representations of race and ethnicity across Nordic film history, I explore how cinema has reflected and subverted ethnic stereotypes against the backdrop of shifting political and economic landscapes.

Keywords
Nordic cinemas;immigration cinema;race;ethnic identity;Otherness;multiculturalism

Journal
Journal of Scandinavian Cinema: Volume 6, Issue 3