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#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.

#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.

"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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Kosmorama #281: Danish silent cinema and Engberg

03.02.2022. One article in Danish and three in English on Danish silent movies, everything in memory of early cinema scholar Marguerite Engberg (1919–2021).

#285: Kashiko Kawakita and the 1932 Towa Shoji Film Diary

14.12.2023. New long read on the crucial honeymoon business trip of the prominent Kawakita ‘film couple’ to Berlin in 1932.