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#288: Dreyer’s unwanted credits

13.12.2024 | Casper Tybjerg discusses Dreyer’s opposition to film credits and some of the theoretical issues raised by the use of paratexts.

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…

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…

Deciphering Dreyer: Props and Symbols in Gertrud

01. oct 2025 | PEER REVIEWED. 'Gertrud' has been considered the most indecipherable of Dreyer’s films, reflected in a disastrous premier and scholarship that has largely focused on a formalist examination. In contrast, this essay…

True Comediennes: A Case Study of Comedy Verité and Performance of the Self in the Danish TV Series Ditte & Louise

13. may 2016. PEER REVIEWED. How does the comedy series Ditte & Louise merge real-life elements with fictional storytelling? The focus of this article is to examine, in relation to contemporary theories of…

Sensation in Serial Form - High-end Television Drama and Trigger Plots

13. may 2016. The main interest of this article is to discuss the aesthetics of high-end television drama, drawing on two series with a pan-Scandinavian production identity, Acquitted and Occupied. Of key interest…

Beyond Fame and Fortune - Analysing three complex documentary portraits

06. dec 2017. PEER REVIEWED. This article demonstrates how the analysis of portrait documentaries depicting famous public figures can benefit from using theories of celebrity culture, thereby extending the…

Beauty in Bacon: "The Pattern of Co-operation and the export of postwar Danish democracy

27. jun 2014. PEER REVIEWED. The co-operative movement shaped daily life in mid-20th-century Denmark and attracted much international attention. Agricultural co-operation was therefore an obvious topic for a short…

"Young Apollo, Friend of an old Damsel": Psilander and Finnish Film Culture

06. mar 2017. PEER REVIEWED. How was film star adoration understood and how was film publicity constructed in Finland in the 1910s? This article examines how Psilander’s popularity in Finland became visible and…

Re-Enchanting the Nordic Everyday in 'Beforeigners'

24. feb 2021. PEER REVIEWED. Using 'Beforeigners' as a case study, this article argues that the recent shift to “glocalised” production has opened new possibilities for Scandinavian producers, allowing more niche…

Pat and Patachon: Towards Preserving a Transnational Comedy Phenomenon

03. feb 2022. PEER REVIEWED. In this paper, we encourage a fresh look at the internationally successful Danish slapstick comedy team Pat and Patachon’s contribution to film comedy, explore their work’s relevance…