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Dansk tv-julekalender til tiden – fra dukker til drama

Penneførere for Goebbels - Filmkritikken i det besatte Danmark

Slaget om Slaget ved Dybbøl – Den danske pressemodtagelse af 1864

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Kosmorama #273: Den danske tv-julekalender

Dansk tv-julekalender til tiden – fra dukker til drama

30. nov 2018. For nogle er det Magnus Tagmus’ charmerende sang i tagrendetoget, for andre er det Poul og Nulles alternative huletransmissioner, og for andre igen er det Pyrus’ ungnisseløjer i Rigsarkivet. Langt

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#272: I-Media-Cities – Historiske byfilm og digital innovation

I-Media-Cities – europæisk film-historieskrivning og den digitale humaniora

21. sep 2018. I årene 2016-2019 arbejder en række filmarvsinstitutioner og universiteter sammen om at stille europæiske byhistoriske film til rådighed for filmforskere i den digitale forskningsinfrastruktur I

Real and Reel Stockholm – Representations of Stockholm in I-Media-Cities, and current issues in archival film access

21. sep 2018. PEER REVIEWED. This article explores the representation of Stockholm on film, using as empirical material films from the interdisciplinary research project I-Media-Cities. More specifically, the

Walking in Copenhagen, Hamburg and Oslo – Planned and Lived Space in Jørgen Roos' Early-60's City Symphonies

21. sep 2018. In the wake of an Oscar nomination for his 1960 short 'A City Called Copenhagen', Danish documentarist Jørgen Roos accepted invitations to make similar films from the city authorities of Hamburg

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#271: Klædt i fiktion og Hanekes hemmeligheder

Imod fortolkning - Michael Hanekes tomme pladser

23. apr 2018. Tilbageholdt information er en veletableret måde at sikre maksimal spænding i fortællekunsten, indtil man til sidst får løsningen, som dermed også bliver en forløsning. Men kun i mainstreamfilm. I

Klædt i fiktion – Når fortællinger materialiserer sig på kroppen

23. apr 2018. De senere år har vi i Danmark oplevet et indtog af visuelle fiktionskulturer fra Japan og USA, der materialiserer sig helt konkret på kroppen. Fænomenet forbindes ofte med cosplay, men knytter sig

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#270: Palladium, portrætfilm og digitalisering

Historien om Palladium

06. dec 2017. I sensommeren 2017 overtog DFI rettighederne til filmselskabet Palladiums anseelige filmsamling. Selskabet producerede i årene 1919-1976 omkring 160 spillefilm, men udlejede også film og drev

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

Carl Dreyer's "Michael" - Digitalization and the Rediscovery of a classic Kammerspiel-film

06. dec 2017. This brief article traces the popular and critical reception of Dreyer’s Michael (1924) from its theatrical release to its DVD editions. Michael was largely considered a lost and forgotten

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#269: Svensk stumfilms guldalder

Of Unknown Origin - Identity, Nationality, and Ethnicity in "Gipsy Anne" (1920)

29. sep 2017. This essay will discuss one of the most important feature films in Norwegian film history, Rasmus Breistein’s Fante-Anne (Gipsy Anne) in the context of Norwegian and Scandinavian early silent

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

Nordic Landscape Discourse in Scandinavian Silent Cinema: "Morænen", Nature, and National Characters.

29. sep 2017. This article looks at different configurations of discourse about Nordic nature, national character, and the cinema. Examining these ideas will help us get a more precise idea of notions of

Norwegian Tableaux - "Synnöve Solbakken"

29. sep 2017. This article discusses the Swedish 1919 film Synnöve Solbakken (A Norway Lass), directed by John Brunius from a short story by the Norwegian author and Nobel prize winner Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. The

The Woman's Point of View: "Thora van Deken" (1920)

29. sep 2017. PEER REVIEWED. The Swedish film Thora van Deken from 1920, though little-known and rarely seen, is a strikingly well-made and well-acted psychological drama. Based on a short novel by Henrik

Following the Swedish Model: The Transnational Nature of Finnish National Cinema in the early 1920s

29. sep 2017. PEER REVIEWED. This article demonstrates why Swedish cinema of the golden age (1916–1924) became an important model for Finnish filmmakers in the early 1920s. In relation to this, the article

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#268: Produktionsdesign i film

Analysing Production Design: Positions and Approaches

16. jun 2017. PEER REVIEWED. This article discusses the challenges of understanding production design and reviews dominant approaches to production design analysis.

Spies at Home – How the design of the domestic interior in "Tinker Tailor Soldier, Spy" conveys character and narrative

16. jun 2017. The home has traditionally implied a safe place often signifying stability, privacy and comfort. However it can also be used to explore fear, where danger resides in the home itself.

PD4C21 - Production Design for the 21st Century

16. jun 2017. This provocation challenges the idea of a single author and linear narrative as industrial-age constructs that have not evolved for the twenty-first century. It introduces world building not only

Production Design and the Creation of Story Worlds - Introduction

16. jun 2017. This issue of Kosmorama focuses on production design. A film without design would be a film with no images. Every work of visual fiction relies on the representation of design artifacts; costumes,

Art Nouveau, Production Design, and the Contemporary Horror Film

16. jun 2017. This article explores the relationship between the contemporary horror film and Art Nouveau design, mise-en-scène, and thematic. In the era of Art Nouveau’s ascendancy, around the turn of the 20th

Mellem lys og mørke - Notater om erfaring og viden i den kunstneriske skabelsesproces

16. mar 2017 | Peer reviewed. Eksisterende dagslys og kunstlys på film rummer store oplevelsesmæssige kvaliteter. Både i konstruktionen af autentiske rum og som tidsskabende element, men også i kraft af lysets atmosfæriske,

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#267: Valdemar Psilander

Valdemar Psilander - En verdensstjerne i dansk film

06. mar 2017. ” Is it beauty of face and figure? Is it acting talent? Is it force of personality? Is it some unexplainable uniqueness expressed in the eyes?

Hjerteslag, syfilis, mord eller selvmord

06. mar 2017. Den 6. marts 1917 blev filmstjernen Valdemar Psilander fundet død på Hotel Bristol, blot 32 år gammel. Straks begyndte rygterne om dødsårsagen at svirre. Var det mord, selvmord, syfilis eller et

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

"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

Psilander, Dreyer, and Lydia

06. mar 2017. PEER REVIEWED. Of all the many films that Valdemar Psilander made, Carl Th. Dreyer made a credited contribution only to one: Lydia, a film directed by Holger-Madsen and released in 1918, for which

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

"The Arbiter of Elegance": Psilander’s Stardom and Elite-Oriented Film Culture in Rio de Janeiro

06. mar 2017. PEER REVIEWED. This article examines how Valdemar Psilander’s stardom in Brazil built on the risqué reputation of Nordisk’s erotic melodramas and tapped into persistent links between moviegoing and

Introduktion til Kosmorama #267

#266: New Hollywood og historiske dramaer

Død over Hollywood - Eksistentielle træk hos Mike Nichols og Hal Ashby

Registrant: Danske historiske dramatiseringer på film og tv i perioden 1900-2016

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#265: Max Rée og Paul Fejos

"Tropisk farvepragt, underlige negermelodier og barbarisk kolorit"

Max Rée - En dansk pioner i Hollywood

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#264: Besættelsens filmkritik

Penneførere for Goebbels - Filmkritikken i det besatte Danmark

03. sep 2016. PEER REVIEWED. Med Nazitysklands invasion af Danmark fulgte en filmkulturel propagandaoffensiv, som handlede om at få vist og omtalt besætternes film for de besatte. I Kosmoramas anden single

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#263: Dansk tv-drama

Global Impact of Danish Drama Series - A Peripheral, Non-commercial Creative Counter-Flow

13. maj 2016. PEER REVIEWED. In recent years Danish TV series have experienced a global export boom. This article maps the regional and global export patterns over the last fifteen years in order to assess the

Seernes favoritserier - Genrer, narrativer og kulturmøder

13. maj 2016. PEER REVIEWED. Hvad sker der, hvis vi spørger 1200 danskere, hvad deres favorit tv-serie er? Dette spørgsmål er artiklens omdrejningspunkt, men vi graver også et spadestik dybere og ser nærmere på,

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

13. maj 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

The Danish Way to do it the American Way

13. maj 2016. PEER REVIEWED. This article critically discusses two seemingly contradictory explanations as to what turned the Danish main public broadcaster DR’s TV series into an international success story,

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

13. maj 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

Production Design and Location in the Danish Television Drama Series The Legacy

13. maj 2016. Television fiction is most often referred to as the writer’s medium, whereas feature film is generally perceived as the vision and work of the director. In this article we turn our focus to the

Introduktion til Kosmorama #263

#262: Selvcensur og erindring på film

Refusing the Reality Pill: A Film Studies Perspective on Prosthetic Memory

10. mar 2016. PEER REVIEWED. This article is a critique of Alison Landsberg's concept of prosthetic memory. It has been highly influential in the fields of history and cultural memory studies, but here the focus

"Vi maatte passe paa" - Selvcensur og selvregulering i Nordisk Films Kompagnis produktion

10. mar 2016. Nordisk Films Kompagni var et af verdens førende filmselskaber i stumfilmtiden og langt de fleste film gik til eksport. Men hvordan tilpassede selskabet sine film til vidt forskellige markeders

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#261: Slaget om 1864

Slaget om Slaget ved Dybbøl – Den danske pressemodtagelse af 1864

Introduktion til Kosmorama #261

#260: Mary Stuart, Sørensen & Rasmussen

Den nationale balsambøsse: Sørensen og Rasmussen (1940)

03. jul 2015. PEER REVIEWED. Emanuel Gregers’ Sørensen og Rasmussen (1940) er en dansk komedieklassiker. Filmen er ikke bare velspillet og godt instrueret, men sammenkæder sin frivole tone og sin afsmag for

Dreyer i Skotland: Arkivet og den urealiserede Film om Maria Stuart

03. jul 2015. PEER REVIEWED. En af Dreyers store urealiserede spillefilm var en dronnings livshistorie: Maria Stuarts, eller historien om Mary, Queen of Scots. Dreyers arkiv omfatter store mængder af

Introduktion til Kosmorama #260

Kosmorama #259–#249

#259: Sex, kunst, metafiktion og strategi

#258: Kropssprog på film

#257: Kosmorama 60 år

#256: Urban Gad

#255: Fire artikler og et mindeord

#254: Theodor Christensen II

#253: Theodor Christensen

#252: Carl Th. Dreyer 125 år

#251: Dansk film

#250: Tre artikler og en rapport

#249: Det ny Kosmorama

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