Stephen Joyce

Re-Enchanting the Nordic Everyday in 'Beforeigners'

24. feb 2021. PEER REVIEWED. Using 'Beforeigners' as a case study, this article argues that the recent shift to “glocalised” production has opened new possibilities for Scandinavian producers, allowing more niche

Hard Rain - New Nordic magic in Scandinavian film and television fiction

24. feb 2021. PEER REVIEWED. Taking the Danish Netflix series, 'The Rain', as a case, this article analyzes genre, theme and cinematic design in order to encircle the characteristics of New Nordic Magic

“I Smelled It on Him”  – Wonderful Trolls and Disgusting Humans in Border

24. feb 2021. PEER REVIEWED. This article analyzes how 'Gräns' (2018, 'Border') uses the emotions of wonder and disgust to combine the fantastic with realism in entirely new ways. 'Border' was received as

The Not-So-Golden Age of Swedish Silent Cinema? Historiographies of Isepa (1926–1928)

21. oct 2020. PEER REVIEWED. Isepa AB was a short-lived subsidiary to Svensk Filmindustri set up in 1926 to produce a series of internationally co-produced films with a cosmopolitan appeal, all for the purpose of