Exposing Vulnerability Self-Mediation in Scandinavian Films With and By Women

In the 2010s, Scandinavia has strengthened its reputation as an ambitious and innovative film region. Established Scandinavian male directors like Lars von Trier and Aki Kaurismäki have continued to generate a lot of public and scholarly interest for their willingness to push aesthetical, political and ethical borders. Exposing Vulnerability calls attention to the increasing number of Scandinavian films in which women directors film themselves and their close ones in order to take up the most pressing contemporary problems such as mental illnesses, bullying, the traumas of migration and racism. The book investigates the aesthetics, politics and ethics of these films.