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Roy Andersson's "Songs from the Second Floor": Contemplating the Art of Existence (Nordic Film Classics)
Ursula Lindqvist
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Description for Roy Andersson's "Songs from the Second Floor": Contemplating the Art of Existence (Nordic Film Classics)
Paperback. Series: Nordic Film Classics. Num Pages: 216 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, 18 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DNS; 3JJ; 3JM; APFA; APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 190 x 25. Weight in Grams: 236.
Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson's celebrated and enigmatic film Songs from the Second Floor, his first feature film in twenty-five years, won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. The songs of the film's title refer to Andersson's artistic ruminations on the state of mankind from his office on the second floor of Studio 24 in Stockholm. The film presents a series of forty-six tableaux-long, deep-focus shots with a still camera, mostly in studio settings, using older visual tricks such as trompe l'oeil. The tableaux showcase seemingly trivial tragicomic situations designed to provoke thoughts about ... Read more
Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson's celebrated and enigmatic film Songs from the Second Floor, his first feature film in twenty-five years, won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. The songs of the film's title refer to Andersson's artistic ruminations on the state of mankind from his office on the second floor of Studio 24 in Stockholm. The film presents a series of forty-six tableaux-long, deep-focus shots with a still camera, mostly in studio settings, using older visual tricks such as trompe l'oeil. The tableaux showcase seemingly trivial tragicomic situations designed to provoke thoughts about ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Nordic Film Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295998251
SKU
V9780295998251
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About Ursula Lindqvist
Ursula Lindqvist is assistant professor of Scandinavian studies and film and media studies at Gustavus Adolphus College.
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