This film course focuses on the increasingly non-traditional ways of forming relationships and families—“new forms of intimacy”—in the six Nordic countries. Rejecting the duplicities of former traditions and authorities, young people from different backgrounds and ethnicities form relationships according to their own integrity and sexual preferences. The purpose of this course is to attain an understanding of these cultural trends and the technical terminology to watch, read, think, talk, and write critically and intelligently about film as text.

The course counts towards Norwegian Major, Nordic Studies, Media Studies, Women’s Studies, ALS-A.