Alice A. Salamena

Prevalence Rather than Popularity? A case study of wartime film programming in Southern Norway

16. maj 2024. This article reflects critically on the use of film programmes as a historical source to understand local screening contexts and cinemagoers’ preferences in a medium sized city and a nearby town in…

The Portal and the Screen – Icelandic National Identity and Foreign Cinema as Contagion

16. maj 2024. PEER REVIEWED. This paper explores how cinemas in Reykjavík became portals between foreign and local cultures, infusing Icelandic society with exotic influences in the first half of the 20th century…

Kashiko Kawakita and the 1932 Towa Shoji Film Diary

15. dec 2023. PEER REVIEWED. What follows is the first English-language examination of a crucial 90-year-old text that remarkably details the unique historical narrative concerning the Kawakita “film couple” as…

Debat om "skolificering” af film til børn og unge

I Kosmorama #284, vores temanummer om børne- og ungdomsfilmens aktuelle tilstand i Danmark, kritiserede leder af børnefilmfestivalen BUSTER, Mariella Harpelunde Jensen, det, hun kalder ”skolificering…