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To be a female Hamlet: Asta Nielsen’s star image, cross-dressing films, and critical reception

03. feb 2022. PEER REVIEWED. This is a study of Asta Nielsen’s star image and how her cross-dressing films exemplify three different kinds of the ‘temporary transvestite film’. The focus is on her androgynous…

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…

Overset, ufortalt og næsten glemt – filmpioneren Urban Gad

15. jan 2020. Var Asta Nielsen overhovedet blevet en verdensstjerne uden Urban Gad? Urban hvem? Det første får vi aldrig svar på. Det andet – det kommer her. For hvem var manden, der så og forløste Asta Nielsens…

Notes on Ingmar Bergman’s Stylistic Development and Technique for Staging Dialogue

24. apr 2019. PEER REVIEWED. Ingmar Bergman is heralded as a model for cinema as personal expression. What rarely comes to the fore is the extent to which he drew on pre-existing schemas for his characters and how…

Benjamin Christensens vidunderlige eventyr: filmhistorie og 'Practitioner’s Agency'

15. jan 2020. PEER REVIEWED. I 1923 instruerede Benjamin Christensen filmen, 'Hvem er hans Kone?' ('Seine Frau, die unbekannte') i Tyskland, en komedie om en blind krigsinvalid kunstmaler, der får synet igen, men…

Men Who Hate Women – Sex, Evil, and European fin-de-siècle Culture in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist

26. okt 2022. LONG READ. This article analyses how Lars von Trier’s film uses the theme of sexuality and connects to European fin-de-siècle misogyny and dominating culture icons such as Nietzsche, Ibsen,…

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…

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 long read…

Dansk tv-julekalender til tiden – fra dukker til drama

30. nov 2018. LONG READ. 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…