A History of Danish Cinema
A History of Danish Cinema

Author: C. Claire Thomson

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2021-11-30

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1474461158

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The first English-language book to cover Danish cinema from the 1890s to the present day.

Inclusion in New Danish Cinema
Inclusion in New Danish Cinema

Author: Meryl Shriver-Rice

Publisher: Intellect (UK)

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781783201938

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Often recognized as one of the happiest countries in the world, Denmark, like its Scandinavian neighbors, is known for its progressive culture, which is also reflected in its national cinema. It is not surprising, then, that Danish film boasts as many successful women film directors as men, uses scripts that are often cowritten by the director and the screenwriter, and produces one of the largest numbers of queer films directed by and starring women. Despite all this, Danish film is not widely written about, especially in English. Inclusion in New Danish Cinema brings this vibrant culture to English-language audiences. Meryl Shriver-Rice argues that Denmark has demonstrated that film can reinforce cultural ethics and political values while also navigating the ongoing and mounting forces of digital communication and globalization.

Small Nation, Global Cinema
Small Nation, Global Cinema

Author: Mette Hjort

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published:

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1452907498

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Investigates the relationship between globalization and the New Danish Cinema.

The Danish Girl
The Danish Girl

Author: David Ebershoff

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Published: 2015-12-01

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 195253318X

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Starring Academy Award-winner Eddie Redmayne and directed by Academy Award-winner Tom Hooper, this major motion picture portrays an unforgettable celebration of love. It starts with a question, a simple favour asked by a wife of her husband, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate. Einar Wegener and his American wife Greta Waud have been married for six years, but are yet to have a child. Both painters, they live a life of bohemian languor in Copenhagen until one day their lives are irreversibly altered. The Danish Girl eloquently shows the intimacy that defines a marriage and the nearly forgotten story of the love between a man who discovers that he is, in fact, a woman, and his wife who would sacrifice anything for him. Set against the glitz and decadence of 1920s Copenhagen, Paris and Dresden, and inspired by a true story, The Danish Girl is about one of the most passionate and unusual marriages of the twentieth century. 'a story of true love, suffering and sacrifice' - Sunday Telegraph

Short Films from a Small Nation
Short Films from a Small Nation

Author: C. Claire Thomson

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2017-12-20

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1474424147

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For three decades, state-sponsored short filmmaking educated Danish citizens, promoted Denmark to the world, and shaped the careers of renowned directors like Carl Th. Dreyer. The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational film, this book traces how Danish shorts on topics including social welfare, industry, art and architecture were commissioned, funded, produced and reviewed from the inter-war period to the 1960s. Examining the life cycle of a representative selection of films, and discussing their preservation and mediation in the digital age, this book presents a detailed case study of how informational cinema is shaped by, and indeed shapes, its cultural, political and technological contexts.

The Danish Directors
The Danish Directors

Author: Mette Hjort

Publisher: Intellect (UK)

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13:

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Profiling the canonized figures alongside recently-established filmmakers, this collection features interviews with Lars von Trier, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Thomas Vinterberg and Henning Carlsen among many others. It poses questions that engage with ongoing and controversial issues within film studies, which will stimulate debate in academic and filmgoing circles alike. Each interview is preceded by a photograph of the director, biographical information, and a filmography. Frame enlargements are used throughout to help clarify particular points of discussion and the book as a whole is contextualised by an informative general introduction. A valuable addition to the growing library of books on Scandinavian film, national cinema and minority cinema.