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Article: "I have a plan!" the Olsen Gang captures Denmark and Norway: negotiating the popular culture gap.
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- Velvet Light Trap
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- September 22, 1994
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IN THEIR INTRODUCTION TO THE ANTHOLogy Popular European Cinema, editors Richard Dyer and Ginette Vincendeau point out that the very concept of a popular European cinema seems to rattle our preconceptions. To an American audience, even more accustomed to identify European cinema within the high culture "art cinema" category, the idea of a popular European cinema may seem even more incongruous, mainly because, as Dyer and Vincendeau maintain, "highly popular European films seldom travel well beyond their national boundaries." (1)
But in spite of the dominance of American popular culture on European screens since World War I, there is, nevertheless, a long tradition ...