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The purpose of the study is to enhance our knowledge of enablers of, and obstacles to, individuals' awareness of how information about them in Swedish public authorities was handled and might be accessed by others. The concept self-information awareness developed for the study was therefore at the core of the linguistic–historical analysis that was carried out on twelve Swedish Government Official Reports on large public registers and personal integrity published 1987–2017. The main conclusion from the investigation is that the possibility of individuals being aware of how information about them was handled by the Swedish authorities and might be accessed by others seemed very limited. The linguistic analysis carried out in the study therefore needs to be supplemented by research into the material legal possibilities for individuals to gain such awareness.

The purpose of the study is to enhance our knowledge of enablers of, and obstacles to, individuals' awareness of how information about them in Swedish public authorities was handled and might be accessed by others. The concept self-information awareness developed for the study was therefore at the core of the linguistic–historical analysis that was carried out on twelve Swedish Government Official Reports on large public registers and personal integrity published 1987–2017. The main conclusion from the investigation is that the possibility of individuals being aware of how information about them was handled by the Swedish authorities and might be accessed by others seemed very limited. The linguistic analysis carried out in the study therefore needs to be supplemented by research into the material legal possibilities for individuals to gain such awareness.

While recent scholarship has highlighted how participating countries at the interwar world's fairs competed by displaying ideological versions of modernity, the alternative national projections of smaller states have received less attention. This study of the Swedish national pavilions from Brussels 1935 via Paris 1937 to New York 1939 analyses how a loose but well-connected network of communicators over the course of three fairs responded to, and used, the evolving trends at these international mega-events. In the threatening international atmosphere of the late 1930s, the network convinced the Swedish government to seize the opportunities opened up by the crises of capitalism and democracy. The 1937 and 1939 pavilions showcased Sweden at the world's fairs as an example of the successful handling of economic and socio-political crisis, and the experience had a formative impact on the post-war institutionalisation of Swedish cultural diplomacy.

Aleksei Iu. German's film My Friend Ivan Lapshin, based on prose works written by his late father lurii P. German (1910-1967), was completed in 1983 and released two years later to some scandal. The prose works themselves had quite a different fate. The elder German published prolifically during some of the most repressive periods of Russian literary history, from the 1930s through the 1960s, although most of his works were published in the earlier two decades. His first works appeared in print in 1931 in Molodaia gvardiia and he continued to publish in this journal throughout the decade; his published works of the 1930s and 1940s include Our Acquaintances (1934), Our Friend the Militiaman (1940) and Stories about Feliks Dzerzhinsky (1947). Aleksei German states that his father held steadfast to his faith in communism, despite the occasional political difficulties he encountered during the course of his career. The son insists that the ideas which pervade so many of his father's published works were not a product of careerism, but rather of his world view: he truly believed in socialist realism.

Im Kino wird "jeder Traum wirklich", schreibt Hugo Münsterberg, einer der ersten Filmtheoretiker. Regisseure wie Hitchcock, Kubrick, Tarantino haben in diesem Sinne den Film als Schöpfung eigenen Ursprungs verstanden, als Erzählung der Herstellung und nicht nur der Darstellung von Welt. Dieser prometheische Charakter des Films, seine "unaufhörliche Produktion von Gestalten, Umrissen und Projektionen" (Gilles Deleuze), ist die leitende Idee der hier versammelten Essays. Sie untersuchen die Regie der Dinge in Emil und die Detektive (1931) und in Citizen Kane (1941), komische Katastrophen in Der Untertan (1951) und Der Prozeß (1962), das Pathos der Musik in Eyes Wide Shut (1999), indirekte Genrekritik im Agentenfilm (Mission Impossible) und im Superheldenkino (Batman) sowie neue Formen des Erzählens im Gedankenspielfilm, Episoden- und Erinnerungsfilm.

Unter »Tableau vivant« (Lebende Bilder) versteht man ein Gesellschaftsspiel des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, das darin bestand, Gemälde durch lebende Personen nachzustellen. Diderot und Goethe begeisterten sich für diese - heute längst vergessene - Bilderpraxis. Umso überraschender ist es, die anachronistische Kunst nicht nur in Stummfilmen, sondern auch in gegenwärtigen Spielfilmen wieder zu entdecken. Was passiert mit dem Filmbild, wenn es sich auf die Struktur unbewegter, nach Gemälden gestellter Bilder einlässt und diese verlebendigt? Das Buch widmet sich diesem ungewöhnlichen Bildphänomen aus historischer und bildwissenschaftlicher Sicht und zeigt auf, welche subversiven Kräfte durch die Gemäldenachstellungen im Film freigesetzt werden und zu welchen diegetischen Erweiterungen diese führen können. Die interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Studie versucht dabei, zwischen Kunstgeschichte und Filmwissenschaft zu vermitteln.