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The Woman's Point of View: "Thora van Deken" (1920)

29. sep 2017. PEER REVIEWED. The Swedish film Thora van Deken from 1920, though little-known and rarely seen, is a strikingly well-made and well-acted psychological drama. Based on a short novel by Henrik…

Screenwriting for a Star: The Scripts for Valdemar Psilander's Films

06. mar 2017. PEER REVIEWED. A star surely needs suitable scripts, but the question of how scripts contributed to creating a star and a star image is seldom raised. This article examines Psilander’s screenwriters…

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…

Of Unknown Origin - Identity, Nationality, and Ethnicity in "Gipsy Anne" (1920)

29. sep 2017. This essay will discuss one of the most important feature films in Norwegian film history, Rasmus Breistein’s Fante-Anne (Gipsy Anne) in the context of Norwegian and Scandinavian early silent cinema,…

After the Celebration: The Effect of Dogme on Danish Cinema

13. dec 2013. PEER REVIEWED. Lars von Trier’s invention Dogme 95 has been celebrated by some as one of the most important events in European film history and dismissed by others as a publicity stunt. This article…

The First Danish Film Shows Revisited: A Historiographical Study

03. feb 2022. PEER REVIEWED. Film historians agree that the first public presentation in Denmark of moving images on a screen took place on 7 June 1896. Using this show as a jumping-off point, we will dive into…

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…

Benjamin Christensen’s Wonderful Adventure: Film History and Practitioner’s Agency

15. jan 2020. PEER REVIEWED. In 1923, Danish director Benjamin Christensen made a film in Germany, 'Seine Frau, die Unbekannte', a comedy about a blinded war veteran who regains his sight, but fails to recognize…

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,…

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…