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Production Design and Location in the Danish Television Drama Series The Legacy

13. may 2016. Television fiction is most often referred to as the writer’s medium, whereas feature film is generally perceived as the vision and work of the director. In this article we turn our focus to the role…

Following the Swedish Model: The Transnational Nature of Finnish National Cinema in the early 1920s

29. sep 2017. PEER REVIEWED. This article demonstrates why Swedish cinema of the golden age (1916–1924) became an important model for Finnish filmmakers in the early 1920s. In relation to this, the article…

Production Design and the Creation of Story Worlds - Introduction

16. jun 2017. This issue of Kosmorama focuses on production design. A film without design would be a film with no images. Every work of visual fiction relies on the representation of design artifacts; costumes,…

Spies at Home – How the design of the domestic interior in "Tinker Tailor Soldier, Spy" conveys character and narrative

16. jun 2017. The home has traditionally implied a safe place often signifying stability, privacy and comfort. However it can also be used to explore fear, where danger resides in the home itself.

Art Nouveau, Production Design, and the Contemporary Horror Film

16. jun 2017. This article explores the relationship between the contemporary horror film and Art Nouveau design, mise-en-scène, and thematic. In the era of Art Nouveau’s ascendancy, around the turn of the 20th…

"The Arbiter of Elegance": Psilander’s Stardom and Elite-Oriented Film Culture in Rio de Janeiro

06. mar 2017. PEER REVIEWED. This article examines how Valdemar Psilander’s stardom in Brazil built on the risqué reputation of Nordisk’s erotic melodramas and tapped into persistent links between moviegoing and…

Gentlemen of the Press

27. jun 2014. Since the beginnings of cinema journalists have been amongst the professionals most frequently portrayed on the big screen. This article analyzes the image of journalists and media workers in Billy…

Forget About Love - Sex and Detachment in Lars von Trier's 'Nymphomaniac'

11. mar 2015. PEER REVIEWED. In Lars von Trier’s cinematic universe, sexuality only rarely appears as a shared passion between partners who embrace feelings of intimacy and bonding. Trier’s characters wear…

Figures in Landscapes: Cognitive Theater Theory and Expressive Bodies in 1920s Scandinavian Film

02. dec 2014. PEER REVIEWED. This article examines the relationship between the actor and the environment, particularly in 1920s Scandinavian films, with Mauritz Stiller's Johan as the main example. This…

Kosmorama #267: Valdemar Psilander

This issue of Kosmorama marks the centenary of the untimely death of the brightest international star of Danish silent cinema. If you are thinking: ’Ah, Asta Nielsen!’, think again. In the early…

Kosmorama #269: The Swedish Challenge

2017 marks the centennial of the start of what later has become known as the “Golden Age” of Swedish cinema. Most accounts of the Swedish "Golden Age" focus almost exclusively on the films of…

Valdemar Psilander – A World Star in Danish Film

06. mar 2017. Around the world, thousands of women’s hearts throbbed when Valdemar Psilander lit up the darkness of the silent cinema house. He spent six years at the top of the charts before it all ended suddenly…