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Kosmorama #272: I-Media-Cities – historical city films and digital innovation

Imagine if one day you could access the collections of all European film archives on one web platform. What if this platform was equipped with the digital tools to satisfy any film scholar’s heart…

A Common Film Culture? - Theme issue on Danish-German film relations during the silent era

15. jan 2020. The authors behind this issue of Kosmorama are all part of the three-year Danish-German research project: 'A Common Film Culture? Denmark and Germany in the Silent Movie Era, 1910-1930'. In this…

Kosmorama #274: Fashion film

Dressed in haute couture garments, Kosmorama marks the opening of Copenhagen Fashion Week and Copenhagen Fashion Film Festival with this issue on fashion film.

Kosmorama #275: Bergman, Visconti og Östlund

With this issue of Kosmorama, we go back to the roots of this journal, back to the auteur criticism of the 1950s, when Kosmorama was young. The focus is on the auteur theory and Bergman’s signature…

The People of the Borderland – A Forbidden Film, a Powerful Neighbour, and Film Censorship as Foreign Policy

23. jun 2021. This article analyses the complex case of the censorship of the film 'Grænsefolket' ('The People of the Borderland', 1925), and examines how power relations between Denmark and Germany impacted on…

Overlooked, untold and almost forgotten – Urban Gad, film pioneer

03. sep 2021. Would Asta Nielsen have become an international star without Urban Gad? Sorry, Urban who? We’ll never be able to answer that first question. The answer to the second question — well, you can find it…

Four Devils and a Mutual Friend – or, why A. W. Sandberg went to Germany

03. sep 2021. PEER REVIEWED: Film was — and remains — an international medium, and the exchanges between various national film industries have often been enacted by the film professionals who carried out their…

A film historical exchange between Deac Rossell and Casper Tybjerg on the first public Danish screening.

A reader’s comment and the author’s reply regarding our recently published article 'The First Danish Film Shows Revisited: A Historiographical Study' by Casper Tybjerg.

Kosmorama #278: National identity and national cinema

21.10.2020. National identity and national cinema are on the agenda in this issue of Kosmorama.

Men Who Hate Women – Sex, Evil, and European fin-de-siècle Culture in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist

26. oct 2022. LONG READ. This article analyses how Lars von Trier’s film uses the theme of sexuality and connects to European fin-de-siècle misogyny and dominating culture icons such as Nietzsche, Ibsen,…

Money, Gossip and Devotion: Betty Nansen in the USA

08. mar 2023. What made Betty Nansen a celebrity in American media and how did her fans relate to the image of her produced by US magazines? This article explores how Nansen deliberately constructed her own…

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,…