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The Moving Image: Body Language and Media Context

02. dec 2014. Every day we are presented with bodily expressions in audiovisual media – by anchors, journalists and characters in films for instance. This article explores how body language in the moving image has…

Movie Stars in the Flesh: The Live Red Carpet Oscars Event

02. dec 2014. PEER REVIEWED. In this article the live red carpet event at the Academy Awards is regarded as a specific media genre which has become a matrix of recognition and success in contemporary film and…

Kosmorama #270: Palladium, portrait docs and digitalization

In late summer 2017, one of Denmark’s oldest film companies, Palladium, closed and the backlist was acquired by the Danish Film Institute – both the rights and the actual film collection. This…

Max Rée - A Danish Pioneer in Hollywood

11. nov 2016. Most Danes are familiar with Oscar winning directors such as Susanne Bier, Bille August and Gabriel Axel. Few these days however realize that many years ago another Dane, and the first Scandinavian…

Hard Rain - New Nordic magic in Scandinavian film and television fiction

24. feb 2021. PEER REVIEWED. Taking the Danish Netflix series, 'The Rain', as a case, this article analyzes genre, theme and cinematic design in order to encircle the characteristics of New Nordic Magic

“I Smelled It on Him”  – Wonderful Trolls and Disgusting Humans in Border

24. feb 2021. PEER REVIEWED. This article analyzes how 'Gräns' (2018, 'Border') uses the emotions of wonder and disgust to combine the fantastic with realism in entirely new ways. 'Border' was received as…

‘The Real Deal’: Queering Danish National Identity

21. oct 2020. PEER REVIEWED. Is Fenar Ahmad’s 'Ækte vare' (2014) ‘just another hip hop movie’? Or could it be seen as a vibrant queering – or deconstruction – of the very concept of Danish national identity? This…

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…

Asta Nielsen: A Cosmopolitan Diva

23. jun 2021. PEER REVIEWED. This article examines how Asta Nielsen’s star persona developed in the Danish context in 1913, applying a transmedia perspective. The analysis covers the German film 'Die Suffragette' …

Maren’s smile: Miracles of the everyday in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Ordet

07. jun 2022. The most miraculous moment in Danish film history, the resurrection scene in Carl Th. Dreyer’s 'Ordet', invites us to reconsider the sense of wonder which animates the director’s film making.

#283: Betty Nansen

08.03.2023. One article in Danish and one in English on the grand diva of Danish theater Betty Nansen, how she managed the transition from stage to screen, and constructed a celebrity image for…

#286: Nordic cinema cultures

16.05.2024 This issue of Kosmorama presents two articles on the impact of World War II on Nordic cinema cultures.