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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…

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…

PD4C21 - Production Design for the 21st Century

16. jun 2017. This provocation challenges the idea of a single author and linear narrative as industrial-age constructs that have not evolved for the twenty-first century. It introduces world building not only as…

'Kunst og kino': The art of early Danish Cinema

11. mar 2015. PEER REVIEWED. This paper aims to contribute to the ongoing historiographical inquiry into, and reevaluation of, the European silent film, by questioning specifically what the “artistic” nature of…

Carl Dreyer's "Michael" - Digitalization and the Rediscovery of a classic Kammerspiel-film

06. dec 2017. This brief article traces the popular and critical reception of Dreyer’s Michael (1924) from its theatrical release to its DVD editions. Michael was largely considered a lost and forgotten…

The Danish Way to do it the American Way

13. may 2016. PEER REVIEWED. This article critically discusses two seemingly contradictory explanations as to what turned the Danish main public broadcaster DR’s TV series into an international success story,…

Global Impact of Danish Drama Series - A Peripheral, Non-commercial Creative Counter-Flow

13. may 2016. PEER REVIEWED. In recent years Danish TV series have experienced a global export boom. This article maps the regional and global export patterns over the last fifteen years in order to assess the…

Refusing the Reality Pill: A Film Studies Perspective on Prosthetic Memory

10. mar 2016. PEER REVIEWED. This article is a critique of Alison Landsberg's concept of prosthetic memory. It has been highly influential in the fields of history and cultural memory studies, but here the focus…

Under the Tropical Sun – Paul Fejos' Film Expedition to Madagascar and the Seychelles

27. jan 2017. In 1934, Nordisk Films Kompagni hired the Hungarian director Paul Fejos to modernize its studios and internationalize its film production. Fejos’s three Danish feature films were such critical and…

On the ‘Danishness’ of Danish Films in Germany until 1918

15. jan 2020. PEER REVIEWED. In Wilhelminian society, Denmark and Danishness were mostly constructed as part of a ‘north’ and a northernness sharing a deeply-rooted kinship with Germany, but at the same time as a…

Kosmorama #276: A Common Film Culture?

15.01.2020. This issue of Kosmorama digs into the Danish-German film culture of the silent era. It is authored by the team of researchers behind the three-year research project, 'A Common Film…

Kosmorama #279: New Nordic Magic

24.02.2021. Forget about Nordic Noir! These days ’New Nordic Magic’ is all the rage in Scandinavia, where trolls, vampires and deadly viruses spread in film and tv-series on the supernatural, the…