ReFocus: The Films of Susanne Bier
Edited by Missy Molloy, Mimi Nielsen & Meryl Shriver-Rice
From early, lesser known films, such as Freud’s Leaving Home, to the Academy Award-winning In a Better World and the hit BBC television series The Night Manager, ReFocus: The Films of Susanne Bier covers the entirety of the versatile Danish director’s oeuvre. Having worked in Scandinavia, Hollywood, and the UK, Susanne Bier is known for her industrial fluidity, moving confidently between genres and media—all at a time when gender inequality in film ensures that women seldom sit in the director’s chair. This book offers a timely consideration of Bier’s impressive authorial achievements and features dynamic essays from both recognised and up-and-coming scholars in Scandinavian, gender and sexuality, and transnational film and media studies.
It concludes with an original interview with Bier, providing unique insight into the creative process of one of contemporary cinema’s prominent innovators.
Contributors
Birger Langkjær, University of Copenhagen (DK)
Eva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen (DK)
Gunhild Agger, Aalborg University (DK)
Mette Hjort, University of Copenhagen (DK)
Missy Molloy, Victoria University of Wellington (NZ)
Andrew Nestingen, University of Washington (US)
Maureen Turim, University of Florida (UF)
Anders Marklund, Lund University (SE)
Pétur Valsson, University of Washington (US)
Mimi Nielsen, University of Washington (US)
Danica Van De Velde, University of Western Australia (AU)
Belinda Smaill, Monash University (AU) Catherine Moore, University of Melbourne (AU) Meryl Shriver-Rice, University of Miami (US)