Research project Authors writing for the cinema: self-adaptations in Swedish film 1930s–1950s
Project about Swedish literary authors working for the film industry in the classical period (1930s-1950s). Case studies on Astrid Lindgren and Stina Bergman are in process, and will be followed by studies on Ulla Isaksson, Vilhelm Moberg, Per Anders Fogelström and Ivar Lo-Johansson.
The case studies are placed in a context of screenwriting in Sweden at the time, from the popular film culture of the 1930s with few literary authors working with film over the literary ‘quality’ film culture of the 1940s to the more eclectic period of 1950s. The emphasis lies on questions of authorship, cinema versus literature and auto-adaptation practices.
Project members
Project managers
Anna Sofia Rossholm
Associate Professor
Department of Media Studies
