Now About All These Women in the Swedish Film Industry

Now About All of These Women in the Swedish Film Industry is a triumph! Not only for the academic feminism and film movement which dates from 1975, but also for the contemporary struggle for gender diversity in national film and television industries worldwide. While other nations remain frustrated in their attempts to achieve gender diversity in the media industry workplace, Sweden achieved their goal of 50/50 by 2020, only to back off the commitment in the name of artistic freedom. Around this recent drama in which they came so close, four Swedish feminist academics position historical profiles, case studies, and interviews from the 1910s to the present. Then, they tell the rest of the world not to give up. There is no other industry that has come this closeand there is no other book quite like this one that has ever been published in either film and media studies or feminist studies. * Jane Gaines, Professor of Film, Columbia University, USA, and author of Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries? (2018) * Now About All These Women in the Swedish Film Industry is brilliant in so many ways; for the women who struggled for gender equality and diversity captured so eloquently in the case studies and interviews that frame this book and for the stories of resistance and freedom that makes up the many voices of Swedish film industry. Original, well written, and thoroughly researched, this book will leave you craving for more. An absolute triumph! * Vicki Karaminas, Professor of Gender and Sexuality, Massey University, New Zealand, Aotearoa * This is a book like no other on the history of women in film and the fight for gender equality. Using the Swedish film industry as its case study it sheds new and bright light on historical factors that have always constrained women and the continuing influence of that history on the contemporary industry that has become known for its gender equality through the SFI's leadership. The range of approaches by the authors from investigations of legal rights to authorship and work and pay conditions for actors to the use of interviews with filmmakers and analysis of images of women on screen brings together feminist film studies and production studies in an innovative and comprehensive way. This is a call to us all not to ease up or become complacent about the ongoing and complex work required to make our film industries, film histories and the art of film itself inclusive. * Shelley Cobb, Professor of Film and Feminist Media Studies, University of Southampton, UK *

Louise Wallenberg is Professor in Fashion Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. She was the establishing director of the Centre for Fashion Studies between 2007 and 2013. Among her publications are the collections Ingmar Bergman at the Crossroads (2022); Fashion and Modernism (2018); Harry bit fr bit (2017); Fashion, Film, and the 1960s (2017); Mode och modernism (2014); Nordic Fashion Studies (2011); and MODE (2009). Frantzeska Papadopoulou is Professor of Intellectual Property Rights at the Law Faculty, Stockholm University, Sweden. She is the editor-in-chief of the Stockholm Intellectual Property Law Review and a member of the Advisory Board of the National Library of Sweden. She is the author of several books and articles such as Evergreening Patent Exclusivity in Pharmaceutical Products (2021) and The Protection of Traditional Knowledge in Genetic Resources (2017). Maaret Koskinen is Professor in Film Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. She was also film critic in Swedens largest daily Dagens Nyheter (1981-2011) and Board Member of the Swedish Film Institute (2011-2016). Her latest publication is Involuntary Dogma restrictions: Orca and COVID-19 screen culture (2021). Other publications include Ingmar Bergman at the Crossroads (2022); Ingmar Bergman y sus primeros escritos. En el principio era la palabra (2017); and Ingmar Bergmans THE SILENCE. Pictures in the Typewriter, Writings on the Screen (2010). Tytti Soila is Professor Emeritus in Film Studies and former Vice Dean at the Faculty of Humanities Stockholm University, Sweden. She is the editor of Stellar Encounters. Stardom in European Film (2009) and The Cinema of Scandinavia (2005). Her most recent publications include Featuring Monica Zetterlund: Jazz in early Swedish television (2021); Ingrid Bergman (2019); and Activism, ideals and film criticism in the 70s Sweden (2019).

Acknowledgements Biographies List of Illustrations Foreword Anna Serner (former CEO of the Swedish Film Institute) Introduction Louise Wallenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) I. Frameworks: The Power of Institutions 1. The Sex of the Author: On authorship Frantzeska Papadopoulou (Stockholm University, Sweden) 2. Gendering Film Distribution Frantzeska Papadopoulou (Stockholm University, Sweden) 3. In the Crossfire: Anna Serner and the Swedish Film Institute Maaret Koskinen (Stockholm University, Sweden) II. Histories, Herstories, and Representation 4. Women on Screen I, 1910s-1960s Louise Wallenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) 5. Women on Screen II, 1970s-2020 Louise Wallenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) III. Routines, Practices, and Practitioners 6. Making a Living: On the Working Conditions and Salaries for Actors and Extras within Swedish Film Production, 1930-1955 Tytti Soila (Stockholm University, Sweden) 7. Bibi Lindstrm: Easy to Work with Tytti Soila (Stockholm University, Sweden) 8. Lisa Langseth: Make sure that whats in your heart is done, so it doesnt drown and stay in the heart Maaret Koskinen (Stockholm University, Sweden) Afterthoughts Louise Wallenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) Bibliography Filmography Index