Contemporary Nordic Art Film Comedy
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Contemporary Nordic Art Film Comedy. / Langkjær, Birger.
I: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, Bind 13, Nr. 3, 2023, s. 263-282.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Contemporary Nordic Art Film Comedy
AU - Langkjær, Birger
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Critics tend to consider art cinema a serious and challenging form of cinema. Contemporary Nordic art cinema nevertheless includes many films by internationally recognized art film directors that use (dark) comedy as an expressive mode. The article examines the diverse ways that art cinema can merge with comedy. After outlining the concept of art cinema, emphasizing the films’ challenging style, ambiguity and gravity, I present approaches to humour, demonstrating how art film comedy challenges several premises of comedy. Analyses of three films, Lars von Trier’s The Boss of It All (2006), Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure (2014) and Grímur Hákonarson’s Rams (2015), highlight their comic aspects, but illustrate that they are comic in varying, ambiguous and challenging ways that violate genre expectations.
AB - Critics tend to consider art cinema a serious and challenging form of cinema. Contemporary Nordic art cinema nevertheless includes many films by internationally recognized art film directors that use (dark) comedy as an expressive mode. The article examines the diverse ways that art cinema can merge with comedy. After outlining the concept of art cinema, emphasizing the films’ challenging style, ambiguity and gravity, I present approaches to humour, demonstrating how art film comedy challenges several premises of comedy. Analyses of three films, Lars von Trier’s The Boss of It All (2006), Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure (2014) and Grímur Hákonarson’s Rams (2015), highlight their comic aspects, but illustrate that they are comic in varying, ambiguous and challenging ways that violate genre expectations.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Nordic cinema, Scandinavian film, art cinema, film comedy, Lars von Trier, Ruben Östlund, Grímur Hákanarson
U2 - 10.1386/jsca_00102_1
DO - 10.1386/jsca_00102_1
M3 - Journal article
VL - 13
SP - 263
EP - 282
JO - Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
JF - Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
SN - 2042-7891
IS - 3
ER -
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