Joel Frykholm
Biographic Data
| ID | 6022965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel Frykholm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel |
| FAMILY NAME | Frykholm |
| SIGNATURE | FRYKHOLM J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4732-1819 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
In True Hollywood Style? Localized Emulations of American Genre Film in Contemporary Swedish Cinema
This essay explores a selection of Swedish feature films that were made with the explicit intention of emulating elements and conventions associated with American action, thriller, disaster, sci-fi, and horror films. Via case studies of Angry (Yohanna Idha and Christopher Schönning, 2010), Operation Ragnarök (Fredrik Hiller, 2018) and The Unthinkable (Den blomstertid nu kommer, Crazy Pictures, 2018), the article address how the intention to draw …
Paranoia, (Para)cinema, and the Right-Wing Mindset
This article aims to make sense of My Son Hunter (The Unreported Story Society and Breitbart News, 2022; dir. Robert Davi). The first part of the analysis discusses My Son Hunter as an example of right-wing counter-cinema that tries to simultaneously tap into the cultural prestige associated with feature filmmaking and provide niche audiences with “paracinematic” pleasures. The second part of the analysis explores cinematic form and filmmaking te…
Teaching American Media and Popular Culture
This is a reflection on my experiences in teaching American media at the Swedish Institute for American studies from 2015 to 2021. By way of concrete descriptions of classes taught and topics raised, I make a case for an approach to popular media that looks beyond both an all-too-limited focus on “mass media” and the text-centric, hermeneutically based discussions about media representations that have otherwise been the most common way of engagin…
From the extraordinary to the everyday
This essay explores discourses on American quality serial television in Sweden’s leading newspapers, and how a gradual discursive repositioning of quality TV – from the extraordinary to the everyday – is linked to Swedish television’s transition into a screen culture increasingly dominated by commercial streaming services. The analysis of the newspaper material shows that the campaign to legitimate quality serial television as respectable art sub…
Critical thinking and the humanities
The raison d’être of the humanities is widely held to reside in its unique ability to generate critical thinking and critical thinkers. But what is “critical thinking?” Is it a generalized mode of reasoning or a form of political critique? How does it relate to discipline-specific practices of scholarly pursuit? How does it relate to discourses of “post-truth” and “alternative facts”? How is it best taught? This essay explores these issues via a …
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Critical thinking and the humanities
The raison d’être of the humanities is widely held to reside in its unique ability to generate critical thinking and critical thinkers. But what is “critical thinking?” Is it a generalized mode of reasoning or a form of political critique? How does it relate to discipline-specific practices of scholarly pursuit? How does it relate to discourses of “post-truth” and “alternative facts”? How is it best taught? This essay explores these issues via a …
From the extraordinary to the everyday
This essay explores discourses on American quality serial television in Sweden’s leading newspapers, and how a gradual discursive repositioning of quality TV – from the extraordinary to the everyday – is linked to Swedish television’s transition into a screen culture increasingly dominated by commercial streaming services. The analysis of the newspaper material shows that the campaign to legitimate quality serial television as respectable art sub…
Paranoia, (Para)cinema, and the Right-Wing Mindset
This article aims to make sense of My Son Hunter (The Unreported Story Society and Breitbart News, 2022; dir. Robert Davi). The first part of the analysis discusses My Son Hunter as an example of right-wing counter-cinema that tries to simultaneously tap into the cultural prestige associated with feature filmmaking and provide niche audiences with “paracinematic” pleasures. The second part of the analysis explores cinematic form and filmmaking te…
Teaching American Media and Popular Culture
This is a reflection on my experiences in teaching American media at the Swedish Institute for American studies from 2015 to 2021. By way of concrete descriptions of classes taught and topics raised, I make a case for an approach to popular media that looks beyond both an all-too-limited focus on “mass media” and the text-centric, hermeneutically based discussions about media representations that have otherwise been the most common way of engagin…
In True Hollywood Style? Localized Emulations of American Genre Film in Contemporary Swedish Cinema
This essay explores a selection of Swedish feature films that were made with the explicit intention of emulating elements and conventions associated with American action, thriller, disaster, sci-fi, and horror films. Via case studies of Angry (Yohanna Idha and Christopher Schönning, 2010), Operation Ragnarök (Fredrik Hiller, 2018) and The Unthinkable (Den blomstertid nu kommer, Crazy Pictures, 2018), the article address how the intention to draw …
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