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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…

After the Celebration: The Effect of Dogme on Danish Cinema

13. dec 2013. PEER REVIEWED. Lars von Trier’s invention Dogme 95 has been celebrated by some as one of the most important events in European film history and dismissed by others as a publicity stunt. This article…

History unmade: Dreyer's Unrealised Mary. Queen of Scots

03. jul 2015. PEER REVIEWED. One of Dreyer’s great unrealised films was an account of the life and loves of Maria Stuart, or Mary, Queen of Scots. Dreyer’s archive contains extensive research materials and notes…

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…

The White Slave Trade Gets Religion in "A Victim of the Mormons"

31. may 2013. In 1911 the film A Victim of the Mormons about a relatively obscure American religious community was produced by Nordisk Film. The commercial success of this film in Britain and the U.S. inspired a…

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.