Stereotyper i toner
Musikens roll i konstruktionen av stereotyper i svensk film under 1990- och 2000-talet
Swedish filmMovie scoreProvincesStereotypesProduction studiesSvensk filmFilmmusikProvinserStererotyperProduktionsstudier
The aim of this paper is to investigate what part film music plays in the creation of stereo-types in the production of Swedish cinema, in the 1990s and early 2000s. This period of Swedish cinema was largely defined through the visualization of life in the smaller provinces of the country. The results were reached through the analyzing of four important works of this era, representing different provinces and genres. The examined movies have shown frequent use of extreme characters and a somewhat hostile environment in search of an interesting story. The music is used in ways of describing class differences amongst the inhabitants and to set the gen-eral mood of the concerned provinces: an agent often working in the unconscious of the viewer in order to affect the final results.