Open Access"...Disse gutta som selv liksom har vokst opp av landskapet." – Arne Skouen og hans okkupasjonsdramaer
Author(s) -
Tonje Haugland Sørensen
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
nordlit
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1503-2086
pISSN - 0809-1668
DOI - 10.7557/13.2369
Subject(s) - norwegian , movie theater , german , narrative , art history , reflection (computer programming) , reading (process) , humanities , history , art , literature , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , archaeology , programming language
Arne Skouen is often heralded as one of the clearest auteurs in Norwegian cinema, and his films about the German Occupation of Norway, 1940-45, are among the most successful and renowned within the Norwegian war film genre. This reading of these four films postulate, that within the framework of the cultural memory of the Second World War II, Skouens four war films offer a coherent and moral reflection about the war time narratives