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Lone Scherfig's Italian for Beginners. Af Mette Hjort. 277 sider, 14 x 19 cm. Ill: 15 fotos. Pris kr 175,00. Museum Tusculanums Forlag. Udgivet 2010. (Nordic Film Classics)

En bog om den danske filminstruktør Lone Scherfig og hendes film Italiensk for begyndere.
En gruppe danske filmfolk - blandt andre Lars von Trier og Thomas Vinterberg - præsenterede i 1995 Dogmemanifestet. Dette regelstyrede og efterhånden verdenskendte filminitiativ havde til hensigt at bringe filmkunsten tilbage til rødderne.
Med Italiensk for begyndere var Lone Scherfig den første af en række kvindelige instruktører til at tage dogmeudfordringen op, og filmen gjorde den allerede velansete filmskaber til én af Europas mest bemærkelsesværdige kvindelige instruktører. Danske såvel som internationale filmkritikere har rost filmen, ligesom den er blevet hyldet af forskellige festivaljuryer.
Gennem en række interviews med instruktøren, med skuespillerne og resten af filmholdet udforsker Mette Hjort de kreative gevinster såvel som tab, som dogmereglerne har medført for forskellige filmskabere. Dogmereglernes praktiske konsekvenser giver mulighed for at få indblik i den filmiske kreativitet og især de samarbejdsmæssige dimensioner. Hjort slår desuden til lyd for at kalde Italiensk for begyndere for en 'moralsk feel good-film'. Idet hun fokuserer på filmens underliggende og allestedsnærværende imødekommenhed, viser Hjort hvorfor moralske feel good-film spiller en vigtig rolle i vores liv.
"I see this study as building a case for the legitimacy and significance of a particular genre of filmmaking, what I am calling the 'ethical feel-good film'. If I have chosen to write on Italian for Beginners at such length and in such detail, it is because I feel that there is something at stake in drawing attention to its mode of cultural expression. [...] Italian for Beginners is not a film that peddles religion, but it does articulate moral values, some of them consistent with religious traditions that have shaped many cultures around the world. If there was more of the kind of stuff that Italian for Beginners is made of in the world, the world would, in my view, be a better place. This is the deeper reason for writing on this film, at such length, and in such detail. [...] The intent throughout has been to write in a clear and engaging manner that does not presuppose specialized knowledge of technical terms or debates in film studies. Readers with an interest in probing certain issues in greater depth or in immersing themselves more fully in various arguments and counterarguments will find pointers in the notes. The discussion is intended to advance our understanding of a number of research questions and to do so in a way that is of interest to scholars and students, as well as to cinephiles who happen to have seen the film and liked it. It is my hope that the proposed analysis will prove pedagogically useful and that it will enable teachers of film, but also of other disciplines, such as Scandinavian studies, to help students to see how significant films can be contextualized, analyzed with respect to style and the craft traditions on which stylistic properties rest, and assessed in connection with various cognitive and ethical contributions"(Preface).
Foruden selve Dogmemanifestet indeholder bogen interviews med filmskaberen, med skuespillerne og med filmholdet bag Italiensk for begyndere.
Mette Hjort er professor og institutleder ved Visual Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong og adjungeret professor i Scandinavian Studies ved University of Washington, Seattle.

UDDRAG AF INDHOLD: Lone Scherfig - The Person, the Oeuvre. Practitioners' Agency - The Impact of the Dogma Framework. Critical Reception - Toward the Idea of an Ethical Feel-Good Movie. Kindness - On the Manifestation of a Consistent Attitude. A Different Kind of Feel-Good Movie - Italian for Beginners and Moral Learning.
Dogma 95: A Manifesto. Italian for Beginners Credits. Awards. Filmography (Selectively Annotated). Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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