The Cinema of Iceland: Between Tradition and Liquid Modernity

Acknowledgments
Contents
Preface: A Cinematic Terra Incognita
Introduction: The Imaginary Island: From a Literary Myth to On-screen Stereotype
Part One: Reconfiguring Utopias: Nation Building and Cinema
	1 Nature, Countryside and the City: The Ideologies of Nation Building
	2 In the Land of the Great Narrations: Chronotopias, Uchronias and Nostalgic Past
	3 Tradition, History and Liquid Modernity in Icelandic Musical Documentaries
Part Two: Figures of Tradition, Crisis and Change
	4 Of Fishermen and Their Ships: Marine Motifs, Cruel Nature and Zeitgeist
	5 Restless Daughters of Freyja: Female Soul of Icelandic Cinema
	6 The Curious Case of Anti-Vikings
Part Three: Reimaging Utopia: Genres and Transnational Dreams
	7 Icelandic Crime Stories
	8 At the Edge of World: Black Comedies and the Allegories of Crisis and Isolation
	9 Cinematic Journeys Around Iceland
Appendix: Tradition and Liquid Modernity in Documentary Cinema
Afterword: Notes After the Year 2016
List of Figures
Bibliography
Filmography
Bibliography of the Previously Published Parts of the Book
Index