Acknowledgments

The editors would like to acknowledge the following people for their help in enabling this special issue of Popular Communication to emerge. We thank Jan Göransson, Maaret Koskinen, Magnus Rosborn, Louise Wallenberg, and Fredrik Gustafsson from the University of Stockholm and Swedish Film Institute for their warm welcome, collegiality, and encouragement upon the occasion of our 2019 presentation of this project (the latter we thank also for additional research assistance). For our preceding research stay on Fårö, from the Bergman Estate we owe special thanks to Linn Ullmann, Inger Söderdahl, Kerstin Kalström, and Kerstin Brunnberg, and also Emma Gray Munthe at Bergman Center. At Popular Communication we thank the following for their support and good will throughout our work: Patrick Burkhart, Christian Christensen, Premila Ganapathy, Anna Hanchett, Linn Lönroth, and Chafic Najem. At the University of Washington, we thank Birgitta Steene, Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adam, and Amanda Doxtater. Closer to home, we thank Mindy Bergman and Pamela Matthews at Texas A&M University, and Catharine Coleborne and Miriam Burgess at the University of Newcastle. We would also like to thank Marc Francis, Erik Hedling, Leon Garcia Jordan, Stefan Nylén, and Lina Scheynius. Finally, we warmly thank the marvelous contributors to this volume for their fecund scholarship, patience, and enthusiasm. This special issue is dedicated to Birgitta Steene.