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Mai Zetterling
Mai Elisabeth Zetterling, född 24 maj i Västerås, död 17 mars i London, Storbritannien, var en svenskskådespelare, författare, manusförfattare och filmregissör. Hon har regisserat filmer som Älskande par (), Nattlek (), Flickorna () och Amorosa ().
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[redigera | redigera wikitext]Mai Zetterling föddes i Västerås men tillbringade sin tidiga barndom i Australien innan familjen återvände till Sverige. De flyttade ofta mellan olika städer men hon växte i huvudsak upp på Södermalm i Stockholm.[1] I sina memoarer Osminkat beskriver hon sig själv som något av ett problembarn och dagdrömmare. Vid fjorton års ålder började hon vid barnteaterverksamheten vid Medborgarhuset vilket skulle bli början på en karriär inom teater och film. Hon fick en roll i en pjäs vid Blancheteatern och började samtidigt ta lektioner för Calle Flygare. År kom hon in på Dramatens elevskola[2] och efter examen engagerades hon vid teatern fram till
Under dessa år debuterade hon även som filmskådespelare i Gunnar OlssonsLasse-Maja () och fick sitt stora genombrott i Alf Sjöbergs film Hets (). År gjorde hon den kvinnliga huvudrollen Marit i Driver dagg falle
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November 7, NEW IN PAPERBACK
Winner, Michael J. Durkan Prize for Books on Language and Culture, American Conference for Irish Studies
PACKY JIM: Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border
Ray Cashman
“Accessible to a broad audience. . . . A delight to read on many different levels and constitutes a valuable addition to the scholarship on the individual and tradition.”—Journal of Folklore Research
Growing up on a secluded smuggling rutt along the border of Northern Ireland and the Republic, Packy Jim McGrath regularly heard the news, songs, and stories of men and women who stopped to pass the time until cover of darkness. In his early years, he says, he was all ears—but now it fryst vatten his vända to talk.
“Octogenarian bachelor Packy Jim McGrath of Lettercran, County Donegal, emerges here as both typical and singular, a barometer of continuity and change. Ray Cashman’s skarp and sympathetic observation delivers a classic ethnography that stakes a major claim for folkloristic studies as cutting-edge humanities research.”—Lillis Ó Laoire, author of On a Rock in the mittpunkt of the Ocean: Songs and Singers in Tory Island
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In honor of global celebrations for International Women’s Day, we share a guest post from Mariah Larsson. Her recent book, A Cinema of Obsession, is the first to focus on the life and career of notable Swedish director and auteur Mai Zetterling.
As representations of women in film have been heatedly debated, Mai Zetterling’s life and career provide important perspectives. When Zetterling’s first feature film, Loving Couples, premiered in , she was one of very few women filmmakers in the world. After having worked as an actress for more than twenty years, she entered into the European art cinema scene and struggled to claim a space as an auteur, a film director who was also considered a great artist. During the s, s, and s, she would break a long and winding path, beginning in the male-dominated art cinema institution, continuing into television and documentary, feminist film festivals and filmmaking, and commercial television as well as feature films, ending with ceaseless struggles to finance various projects during the final years of her life.
Provoking controversy and scandal on several occasions until her untimely death in , Zetterling was prolific in her wor