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The first English-language book to cover Danish cinema from the 1890s to the present day, this wide-ranging collection places well-known auteurs such as Carl Th. Dreyer, Lars von Trier and Susanne Bier in their cultural context, and introduces a number of genres and themes that are less familiar to international audiences, including film stars of the silent era, children's film, folk comedies, porn film, trends in documentary and Greenlandic cinema. With twenty-two chapters, all of them specially commissioned for this volume, A History of Danish Cinema explores the role of screen representations and film policy in shaping Denmark's cultural identity, but also emphasises just how internationally mobile Danish films and filmmakers have always been showcasing this small nation's extraordinary contribution to world cinema.
Contents
AcknowledgmentsNotes on contributors
Introduction - C. Claire Thomson, Isak Thorsen and Pei-Sze Chow
Part I: From the first 'Golden Age' to the Occupation
1. Surviving a crisis: Nordisk Films Kompagni as a world player - Isak Thorsen
2. Asta & Co.: The politics of early Danish film stardom - Julie K. Allen
3. The European principle: Art and border-crossings in Carl Theodor Dreyer's career - Casper Tybjerg
4. Derailed: Danish film during the German Occupation - Lars-Martin Sørensen
Part II: National genres
5. The art of the popular: The folkekomedie tradition - Niels Henrik Hartvigson
6. Social realism of the 1940s: Between paternalistic care and dignifying humanism - Birger Langkjær
7. Imagining Denmark: Danmarksfilm as documentary portraits of a nation - Ib Bondebjerg
8. Rural dreams: Landscape, family, sexuality and queerness in Homeland Cinema - Niels Henrik Hartvigson
9. The Olsen Gang in Denmark—and abroad - Stephan Michael Schröder
10. Making a life of your own: Films for children and young people in the 1970s and 1980s - Christa Lykke Christensen
11. Pornography and censorship - Isak Thorsen
Part III: Auteurs and institutions in the new Golden Age
12. Into the dark forest: The cinema of Lars von Trier - Peter Schepelern
13. 'I am no longer an artist': Heritage film, Dogme 95, and the New Danish Cinema - C. Claire Thomson
14. Stories of Scandinavian guilt and privilege: Transnational Danish directors - Meryl Shriver-Rice
15. Danish television drama in the twenty-first century: New synergies between film and television - Eva Novrup Redvall
16. New Danish Screen and The Sketch: The role of imposed and self-imposed constraints in talent development - Mette Hjort
Part IV: Decentring and diversifying Danish cinema
17. Danish Documentary Production: An all-female company - Anne Jerslev
18. Welcome to Denmark: Immigrants and their descendants in Danish cinema - Eva Jørholt
19. Dirty films: Grimy materialism and ecological aesthetics - Benjamin Bigelow
20. Regional film funds and production - Pei-Sze Chow
21. 'Finally, we're beginning to tell our own stories': Filmmaking in Greenland - Isak Thorsen and Emile Hertling Péronard
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