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University of Washington Press
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Press Release
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For Immediate Release
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University of Washington Press and the Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen, Announce an Agreement to Co-publish the Nordic Film Classics Series
Nordic Film Classics Series
explore in-depth studies of key Nordic films
Seattle, WA -- The University of Washington Press is pleased to announce
a partnership with Museum Tusculanum Press, the nonprofit publishing arm of the
University of Copenhagen, to co-publish the newly launched Nordic Film Classics
Series. Museum Tusculanum Press will hold sales rights in Continental Europe,
the United Kingdom, and Ireland. Washington will have territorial sales rights
in the rest of the world.
The Series is co-edited by Mette Hjort, professor of
visual studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong and affiliate professor of
Scandinavian studies at the University of Washington, and Peter Schepelern,
senior lecturer in film and media studies at the University of Copenhagen.
Volumes will offer in-depth studies of key films by Danish, Finnish, Icelandic,
Norwegian, and Swedish directors, shedding light on the ways in which the
Nordic nations  and region have contributed to the art of film.
The first book in the series, Ingmar Bergman's The Silence: Pictures in the Typewriter, Writings on the Screen by Maaret Koskinen, will be
published in December 2009. The author is a professor of cinema studies and
film critic for Sweden's largest national daily newspaper. She was the first
scholar given access to Bergman's private papers during the last years of his
life. Ingmar Bergman's The Silence reveals the difficulties he experienced
in writing for the medium of moving images and his meditations on the
relationship (or its lack) between moving images and the spoken or written
word. Her exploration of The Silence
sheds new light on the shifting views of Bergman and auteurist film, high art,
and popular culture.
For more information on Ingmar Bergman's The Silence or the Nordic Film Classics Series,
please contact Rachael Levay at remann@u.washington.edu
or Niels Stern at niels@mtp.dk.
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About University of Washington Press
The Press traces its origins to 1915, when Edmond Meany's Governors of Washington, Territorial and State was issued. The first book to bear the University of Washington Press imprint, an edition of The Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
edited by Frederick M. Padelford, appeared in 1920. Since that time the
Press has published approximately 4,400 books, of which about 1,400 are
currently in print. Today we publish about seventy new titles each year.
From
the beginning the Press has reflected the University's major academic
strengths. Building on those strengths, combined with a vigorous
creativity in developing regional partners, the University of
Washington Press has achieved recognition as the leading publisher of
scholarly books and distinguished works of regional nonfiction in the
Pacific Northwest.
About Museum Tusculanum
Museum Tusculanum Press was founded in 1975 as an independent,
non-profit academic publishing house. The aim of the publishing house
is to publish generally informative books and peer reviewed scholarly
works of the highest quality. Most of its authors are attached to the
University of Copenhagen and the Royal Library, but the number of
titles written by authors attached to other institutions at home and
abroad is steadily increasing.
Museum Tusculanum Press publishes about 60 titles a year
within the humanities, the social sciences and theology. The titles
cover a large number of languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, English,
French, Italian, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Modern Greek,
Egyptian-Arabic, Polish, Lithuanian and more exotic languages, such as
Minor Mlabri, Tibetan and Tuareg. Moreover, a number of titles are on
consignment from other publishing houses and institutions.
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University of Washington Press
Rachael Levay
Publicist
remann@u.washington.edu
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Museum Tusculanum
Niels Stern
Marketing Manager
niels@mtp.dk
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