关键词: 类型, 动画, 纪录片, 瑞典

Abstract: It seems that the first decades of the new millennium has brought a small renaissance of documentaries, especially those that combine live action and animated pictures and even those visualised totally by employment of some animation technique. My concern in the following essay is a conspicuous propensity in Swedish animation toward animated documentary. In my view Sweden is the country that, besides Canada and Great Britain, has developed the most prolific production of films that merge documentary purposes and animated imagery. The essay is composed of three parts. In the beginning I am going to define animated documentary, as I understand it. Swedish animation and documentary history is roughed out in the second part of the text putting emphasis on certain features that might be the base for the development of the animated documentary. Finally, the last part focuses first on some factors in its production and social background that, at least partly, explain why the animated documentary is a prominent feature on the Swedish animation scene and, lastly, I point up some films and filmmakers that eminently represent the genre.

Key words: genre, animation, documentary, Sweden