"Regional Conflicts: From the Merchant's House to the People's Home"
(2010) Mediehistoriskt arkiv 15. p.191-211- Abstract
- This article is an analysis of the Swedish feature film "Brita i grosshandlarhuset" from 1946 about a poor girl that moves to the city finding employment as a maid in the house of a rich merchant. Here I examine the compromises - in terms of constructions of class and gender - that paved the way for a new narrative, with the progression of imagery from, so to speak, the symbol of the merchant house to the metaphor of the "Folkhem". In special focus stands the relation between city and country side.
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- author
- Holgersson, Ulrika LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2010
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- historical film analysis, maid servants, class, gender, Folkhem
- host publication
- Regional Aesthetics : Locating Swedish Media
- editor
- Hedling, Erik ; Hedling, Olof and Jönsson, Mats
- volume
- Mediehistoriskt arkiv 15
- pages
- 191 - 211
- publisher
- Kungliga biblioteket
- ISSN
- 1654-6601
- ISBN
- 978-91-88468-14-7
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- daf97680-396a-48bf-87e7-daed431ede45 (old id 1988257)
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-01 14:39:47
- date last changed
- 2021-02-18 14:29:33
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