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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…

Norwegian Tableaux - "Synnöve Solbakken"

29. sep 2017. This article discusses the Swedish 1919 film Synnöve Solbakken (A Norway Lass), directed by John Brunius from a short story by the Norwegian author and Nobel prize winner Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. The…

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,…

Nordic Landscape Discourse in Scandinavian Silent Cinema: "Morænen", Nature, and National Characters.

29. sep 2017. This article looks at different configurations of discourse about Nordic nature, national character, and the cinema. Examining these ideas will help us get a more precise idea of notions of cultural…

Analysing Production Design: Positions and Approaches

16. jun 2017. PEER REVIEWED. This article discusses the challenges of understanding production design and reviews dominant approaches to production design analysis.

Psilander, Dreyer, and Lydia

06. mar 2017. PEER REVIEWED. Of all the many films that Valdemar Psilander made, Carl Th. Dreyer made a credited contribution only to one: Lydia, a film directed by Holger-Madsen and released in 1918, for which he…

Expressing Suppression: Body Language, Information Distribution and the Frustrated Quest for Fictional Truth in Haneke's Caché

02. dec 2014. PEER REVIEWED. In Michael Haneke’s Caché body language emerges as the only criterion of fictional truth. The main character, Georges, is again and again subjected to scrutinizing gazes as he tries to…

Making Love Detumescently: Some Preliminary Notes on the Body Language of the Penis

02. dec 2014. PEER REVIEWED. Although body language in the moving image may to a large extent be transparent, some aspects of body language are regulated by generic conventions, rating systems, and, historically,…

Lamps, Light, and Enlightenment: Poul Henningsen's Denmark and Ole Roos' PH Light

31. may 2013. This article situates PH Light in the context of Henningsen’s film-related criticism and practice, and concludes by offering a reading of the film as a text which employs light effects to activate…

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Kosmorama #263: Danish Television Drama - Production, Texts, Audiences

Over the last decade, what used to be television drama made in Denmark for Danes only has become a worldwide export success. This introduction by the guest editors maps the recent developments and…

When Fiction Points the Finger – Metafiction in Films and TV Series

11. mar 2015. Self-reflexive concepts are common in newer films and TV series, which invite the audience to examine their texture or criticise our media-voyeuristic demands. With examples from House of Cards,…