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Turn Me On Dammit Study by Adrian Hodgson

Mise En Scene within the film ‘Turn Me On Dammit’.

Third cinema is the expression of a new culture and of social changes.

L’Influence du troisienre cinema dans le monde, ed. by CinemaAction, 1979.

TMOD.

Turn Me On, Dammit.

A Jannicke Systad Jacobsen directed piece, Turn Me On, Dammit! (Norwegian: Få meg på, for faen!) or Turn Me On, Goddammit! is a Norwegian coming-of-age comedy film premiered in 2011. It is based on Olaug Nilssen’s novel of the same name. Set in Skoddeheimen, a fictional small town in western Norway, the film is about Alma (Helene Bergsholm), a 15 year old girl and her sexual awakening. Alma is addicted to telephone sex hotlines. She secretly feels for Arthur, an equally shy teenager. One day he approaches her in a very bizarre manner. She tells her best friends about this and her story makes her the talk of the town. When Arthur denies the episode, she's subsequently considered a slandering crank and becomes an outcast.

The Director explains the influence of this style of film and why it is typical for Nordic cinema.

at 12:45 mins the scene begins with Alma walking out of the bathroom where she greets her friends with a huge smile. What happens next shows an example of the forwardness of this film and the openness of female sexuality. This is exactly what Hollywood cinema is too afraid to show. Their is also a lot of similarities with this sort of cinema as the norwegian film ‘Insomnia’ (1997) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf__4yiDMRw&list=PLKkDjgBOPjWGfjQ4LLAAg8rZV1C5IW02j

TURN ME ON, DAMMIT! is a whimsical and refreshingly honest coming of age story about the blossoming sexuality of a teenage girl, set to open in theaters on F...

The Director and Lead actress discuss how this film was able to push the boundaries of censorship and vulgarity with story telling, giving an example of the difference between they Hollywood and Norway interpret Female Sexuality.

‘Turn me on, dammit’ expresses the social values of Norwegian cinema, showing the freedom of story telling and free of censorship. This ‘Norwegianness’ which is portrayed on the screen with “Context, actors, symbolism and themes” relating to Scandinavian culture and their social scene. REFERENCE: Cinema and Nation edited by Associate Professor of English Mette Hjort, Mette Hjort, Scott Mackenzie

In the source above from ‘Nordic National Cinemas’ edited by Gunnar Iverson, Astrid Soderbergh Widding, Tytti Soila. It is mentioned how although embracing the common story telling of popular Hollywood cinema, Norwegian cinema has added its own ‘Cinematic style and social values’. This is why in the example of ‘Turn me on, dammit’, there is evidence of the major differences between the social values of Norway in regards to the openness of sexuality and sexual activity amongst youth. This is in comparison to American cinema which is somewhat sheltered to un-romantic side of side of sex.

The mention of Norwegian cinema and the difference from popular cinema (Hollywood), specifically within Norwegian film producing. ‘Transnational Cinema in a Global North: Nordic Cinema in Transition’ By Andrew K. Nestingen, Trevor Glen Elkington

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Turn Me On Dammit Trailer. Film (No English Subtitles) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVkjr1EF4uQ

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