Elin Wägner (1882-1949) was a Swedish writer, journalist, suffragette, peace activist and environmentalist. Less examined is her relationship with cinema. She is a rare example of a screenwriter who was active in the film industry both during silent cinema and after the breakthrough of sound film. Some of Wägner’s novels became film adaptations.
Project information
Project manager Dagmar Brunow Participating organizations Linnaeus University; the Elin Wägner Literary Society and Nordic Women in Film Financier Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS), supported by the Holger and Thyra Lauritzens foundation for the advancement of filmhistorical research Timetable 2018–ongoing Subject Film Studies and Intermedial Studies
More about the project
In this project I study screenplay versions, drafts and letters to foreground the often-overlooked artistic process involved in developing film adaptations.
The project has two aims: first, to study Elin Wägner’s role in the Swedish film industry, and 2) to foreground the role of the screenplay in the process of media transformation.
