Birgitta Steene

Birgitta Steene is professor emerita in cinema studies and Scandinavian literature at the University of Washington and has also been a professor in the film department at Stockholm University.

Ingmar Bergman and Sweden: an epoch’s end

In 1944-45 as the second world war was coming to a close, two artistic debuts occurred in Sweden that hardly impacted on the international political situation but were to be

By Birgitta Steene

/ 28 Jul 2009

Astrid Lindgren’s legacy

A hundred years ago, on 14 November 1907, Astrid Lindgren was born on a small farm in south-central Sweden. When she died at age 95, she had long achieved worldwide

By Birgitta Steene

/ 14 Nov 2007

The Swedish cartoon: art as provocation

In early 2006, the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten's publication of a series of satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed a few months earlier escalated into an international row

By Birgitta Steene

/ 10 Sep 2007