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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…

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,…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

Beauty in Bacon: "The Pattern of Co-operation and the export of postwar Danish democracy

27. jun 2014. PEER REVIEWED. The co-operative movement shaped daily life in mid-20th-century Denmark and attracted much international attention. Agricultural co-operation was therefore an obvious topic for a short…