CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Lukas Duncan |
|---|---|
| Title | An Exploration of Swedishness: A Mosiac of the Swedish Cultural Landscape Through the Lens of Children's Film |
| Summary | This thesis aspires to discuss the role of Children’s films in the dissemination of ideas, idylls, values, and norms associated with the vague cultural idea that is Swedishness. Sweden is a paradox, through its history of being transformed from an agrarian impoverished class-based society to the modern egalitarian utopian ideal that some may see as there lies a certain fallacy in calling Sweden a country of exceptionalism and devoid of national feeling. A country with a certain amount of national pride, coupled with a strong streak of individualism, it becomes apparent that it is a country working between two different but not wholly separate identities. In that vein, this thesis looks at two contrasting children’s films that represent two sides of the same coin, Swedishness. In their role as children’s films they both present versions of the citizen and the nation that adults see as key to the dissemination of what it is to be Swedish. Through various modes of film analyses this thesis sees that these two films and two separate frameworks of important national concepts, the landscape, and the individual, this thesis sheds light on how inherent Swedish idylls and ideals, blend through cultural productions and become perhaps not as distinct or idyllic as they may seem. |
| Supervisor | Stewart, Michael; Ulrich Meuer |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/duncan_lukas.pdf |
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