Popular Films in Stockholm During the 1930s: A Presentation and Discussion of the Pioneering Work of Leif Furhammar

Åsa Jernudd () and John Sedgwick ()
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Åsa Jernudd: Örebro University
John Sedgwick: Oxford Brookes University

A chapter in Towards a Comparative Economic History of Cinema, 1930–1970, 2022, pp 87-142 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Leif Furhammar was an esteemed professor of Film Studies at the University of Stockholm. In 1990 he produced a report on filmgoing in Stockholm during the 1930s. The report is little known to film scholars, especially outside of Sweden. Furhammar takes a novel approach to investigate what films people watched by counting film programmes listed in a daily city newspaper. Using similar methods to POPSTAT, Furhammar produces charts of the annual best-attended films in Stockholm for the decade, including all Swedish movies released. His work introduced an entirely new type of evidence concerning film popularity. This chapter discusses his methods, replicates his results (where data permits), and analyses his findings.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-05770-0_5

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