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Pippi and Her Pals
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 42, Number 2, Winter 2003
- pp. 3-24
- 10.1353/cj.2003.0005
- Article
- Additional Information
This article explores the fascination of Swedish audiences with the forty-plus films based on Astrid Lindgren's children's books, Pippi Longstocking foremost among them. Following Lindgren's death in 2002, will these films continue to play a unifying function in an increasingly multicultural Sweden?