Danish and German Silent Cinema

Based on extensive archival research, Danish and German Silent Cinema examines how the film of these nations interacted from 1910 through to the advent of sound in 1930. Written by an international team of scholars, this book marks the conclusion of a four-year collective research project running alongside the stumfilm. dk initiative to digitise Danish silent film heritage. This collection focuses on production and distribution history, critical reception, censorship, celebrity studies, and aesthetic analysis. This collection cultivated by Sørensen and Tybjerg contributes to European film and cultural history by extensive investigation of a number of films, persons and companies who had an international outlook - case studies include the Nordisk Film Company, Asta Nielsen and the comic duo Pat & Patachon Lars-Martin Sørensen is Head of Research at the Danish Film Institute. Casper Tybjerg is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Copenhagen.