Ideale Kommunikation, reale Filmproduktion

Abstract

Between 1909 and 1918, cinema became a ubiquitous cultural practice in Denmark; during the same period, the Danish film industry was one of the most important in the world. Drawing on a large number of archival documents that have been made accessible for the first time, this study examines the interaction between cinema and Danish literature at that time: What did Danish literature mean for cinema, what did cinema mean for literature? The first volume discusses, among other things, how the literary intelligentsia attempted to establish a ›literary cinema‹ in accordance with cultural hegemonic norms, how the genre of the screenplay emerged and how the literary intelligentsia worked as screenwriters in the film industry. The second volume analyses the cinema debate in the Danish media, the involvement of the literary intelligentsia in film censorship and the literary discourses on cinema.