ReFocus: The Films of Susanne Bier

Table of contents :
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Notes on Contributors
Foreword by Andrew Nestingen
Introduction: Susanne Bier’s Boundary-crossing Screen Authorship
PART 1 Generic and Industrial Fluidity
Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 Storytelling Schemes, Realism, and Ambiguity: Susanne Bier’s Danish Dramas
Chapter 2 Negotiating Special Relationships: Susanne Bier’s Comedies
Chapter 3 Susanne Bier’s Hollywood Experiments: Things We Lost in the Fire and Serena
PART 2 Negotiating Identity
Part 2 Introduction
Chapter 4 Beginning with Jewish Survival: Freud’s Leaving Home
Chapter 5 Stories with Queer Identities
Chapter 6 Judaism and Danish Directors: The Case of Lars von Trier vs. Susanne Bier
Chapter 7 Gender Equity in Screen Culture: On Susanne Bier, the Celluloid Ceiling, and the Growing Appeal of TV Production
PART 3 Authorship and Aesthetics
Part 3 Introduction
Chapter 8 Tracing Affect in Susanne Bier’s Dramas
Chapter 9 Vision and Ethics in A Second Chance (En chance til)
Chapter 10 The Truth is in the Eyes: Susanne Bier’s Use of Close-ups in The Night Manager
PART 4 Transnational Reach
Part 4 Introduction
Chapter 11 Cinema of the World and Women’s Film Culture: Susanne Bier’s Transnational Cinema
Chapter 12 From Local to Global: The Bier/Jensen Screenwriting Collaboration
Chapter 13 Danish Privilege and Responsibility in the Work of Susanne Bier
Postscript A Conversation with Susanne Bier
Filmography of Susanne Bier
Acknowledgments
Index