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Mariah Larsson

Mariah Larsson is a professor of film studies at Linnaeus University in Sweden. She is the author of A Cinema of Obsession: The Life and Work of Mai Zetterling (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020). Among her other publications are The Swedish Porn Scene: Exhibition Contexts, 8mm Pornography and the Sex Film (Intellect, 2017) and A Visual History of HIV/AIDS: Exploring the Face of AIDS Film Archive (coedited with Elisabet Björklund; Routledge, 2019).

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Mai Zetterling: Cinema Artist

A pioneering feminist artist drawn to universal themes, the Swedish director mined the complexity and humor of human behavior in films that courted controversy and cultivated a sense of detachment.

By Mariah Larsson

Essays— Dec 13, 2022