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Kashiko Kawakita and the 1932 Towa Shoji Film Diary

15. dec 2023. PEER REVIEWED. What follows is the first English-language examination of a crucial 90-year-old text that remarkably details the unique historical narrative concerning the Kawakita “film couple” as…

The Portal and the Screen – Icelandic National Identity and Foreign Cinema as Contagion

16. may 2024. PEER REVIEWED. This paper explores how cinemas in Reykjavík became portals between foreign and local cultures, infusing Icelandic society with exotic influences in the first half of the 20th century…

#287: Bent Barfod – the master of Danish animation

19.09.2024 | Kosmorama takes a closer look at the master of Danish animation Bent Barfod.

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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…

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,…

World Agents and Mighty Filmmakers – The Transnational Business Relations of Palladium

15. jan 2020. PEER REVIEWED. The film company Palladium was highly successful throughout the 1920s, an exception in an otherwise troubled period for the Danish film industry. Films featuring Fyrtårnet and Bivognen…

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…

A Swedish Renaissance: Art and Passion in Victor Sjöström's "Vem dömer" (1922)

29. sep 2017. PEER REVIEWED. A focus on art and mystique, cinematography that channels the Old Masters, and an interesting narrative structure, the 1922 Renaissance period piece Vem dömer (Love’s Crucible/Mortal…

Garrison, Star of the Russian Screen

06. mar 2017. PEER REVIEWED. In Russia, Valdemar Psilander rose to stardom under the name of Garrison. This article details Nordisk Film and Psilander’s rise and fall in Russia prior to and during the First World…

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…

Strategies in Danish Film Culture – and the Case of Susanne Bier

11. mar 2015. PEER REVIEWED. Dialogues between national and transnational film cultures take place incessantly. The question is: which kinds of dialogue? The principal lines in the history of encounters and…