%0 Journal Article %T Passion at the threshold: Doctor Glas the flaneur in the films of Rune Carlst¨¦n and Mai Zetterling %A Tytti Soila %J Journal of Aesthetics & Culture %D 2010 %I Co-Action Publishing %R 10.3402/jac.v1i0.5227 %X This article explores tropes of modernity in film adaptations of the 1905 novel Doctor Glas written by the Swedish author Hjalmar S derberg. Drawing on Walter Benjamin and Miriam Hansen among others, the article attempts to show that certain expressive categories perceived as mutually exclusive by the contemporary audiences, in fact co-operate in order to constitute certain ˇ°points of impossibilityˇ± in the narrative and visual flow, where modern (gender) identities mutate and manifest themselves. %K modernity %K body %K gender %K identity %K flaneur %K etui %K interor/exterior %U http://www.aestheticsandculture.net/index.php/jac/article/view/5227/6276