Johan Klingb org\, visiting PhD Candidate from Stockholm University\, presents his ongoi ng doctoral project\, “Seems Like Film: Swedish Literature in the Film Netw ork 1929–1940.” The talk will be held on December 7 at 3:00 pm in the Bucha nan Tower\, room 997.
Abstract: Around 1930\, film f ound its way into Swedish literature. To a striking degree\, the new genera tion of modernist authors—among others\, Artur Lundkvist\, Karin Boye\, Har ry Martinson\, and Eyvind Johnson—started to remediate the film medium in t heir works. This coincided with the emergence around Stockholm of a signifi cant film network. In the 1930s\, following the development of new technologies (such as the 16-mm film) and the emergence of a wide range of institutional cinemas (e.g.\, educational film\, newsreel\, advertising fi lm)\, film began to be projected in schools\, workplaces\, and in the stree ts. Arguably for the first time\, moving images became a comprehensive aspe ct in people’s everyday lives in Sweden. In my dissertation\, I turn to lit erature in order to explore this film network\, and in reverse study the ne twork as an epistemological prerequisite for Swedish literary modernism as such.
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