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FEATURE. Serien Efterforskningen giver et usædvanligt blik på politiets krævende opklaringsarbejde ifm. Kim Wall-mordet. Nathali Pilegaard og Heidi Philipsen undersøger, om politichefen, Jens Møller, udvikler sig tilstrækkeligt til, at seerne kan engagere sig i ham og i opklaringen. De valg, skaberne har truffet omkring en ret flad en udviklingskurve, tilbyder en ny tilgang. Her er det ikke morderens plot og det sensationelle, der dominerer, men nærmere karakterernes evner som retfærdighedens beskyttere.

FEATURE. David Simon har været idémand bag alle sine serier og ført dem igennem fra start til slut. The Wires kanoniske status er uomtvistelig, men har også skygget for nogle tværgående træk i Simons serier. Èt af de træk er det genkommende fokus på amerikanske storbyer og de udfordringer, som de hver især står over for. Mikkel Jensen fører os igennem Simons serier med det for øje.

IN ENGLISH. What makes some bad films “so-bad-they’re-good”? In our latest article, Marc Hye-Knudsen and Mathias Clasen shed light on the paradoxical appeal of bad films by bringing contemporary humor research and cognitive film theory to bear on Tommy Wiseau’s cult classic The Room, often heralded as “the best worst movie ever made.”

FEATURE. Captain Fantastic is by no means alone in expressing a fascination with the ‘outsider’ in American culture. The film tries to charm its viewers into becoming infatuated with its protagonist Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen), but it also exposes him as being a faulted man and father. In this article Mikkel Jensen explores how Captain Fantastic’s portrayal of Ben intervenes in debates regarding what cultural historian Grace Hale has called “the romance of the outsider”.

FEATURE. Overvågning og dens mange teknologiske fremtoninger har en prominent plads i science fiction-filmen. I denne artikel undersøger Peter Ole Pedersen genrens evne til at skabe visuelt frapperende og tankevækkende scenarier, der udfordrer vores vante forestillinger om overvågningens mange forbindelser til samfund, retsstat og religion.

FEATURE. Selvom musikvideoer med deres korte form, betydningsmæssige mangfoldighed og markante stilisering virker til at invitere til analyse, er det faktisk ikke så ligetil at analysere en musikvideo som man måske skulle tro. I denne artikel giver Mathias Bonde Korsgaard således et svar på det bedragerisk simple spørgsmål: hvordan analyserer man en musikvideo?

IN ENGLISH. Kenji Mizoguchi remains as one of Japan’s most accomplished filmmakers. His work called upon a number of influences, not just from his cinematic peers, but also from his own culture. One such influence which was prevalent throughout his life as a director was the Japanese theatre, particularly traditional noh theatre which was used as both a stylistic and narrative device. In our latest article, Paul Spicer explores this relationship by examining two of his most important works of the 1950s.

IN ENGLISH. Anton Chigurh, the main villain of the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men (2007), has been called a ”Monster for the Ages.” What makes him so? Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen shows how a moral psychological perspective can render the aesthetically supercharged antisociality of the character intelligible.

FEATURE. Kvindecentrerede serier er skudt frem i det seneste årti og har tilsyneladende vundet indpas hos seerne. I 2010’erne var det navnlig HBO-serien Girls, der portrætterede det kvindelige erfaringsunivers og som også blev genstand for stor akademisk interesse. Derefter fulgte serier som Broad City, Insecure og I Love Dick. Med den bramfrie Fleabag i centrum lægger Fleabag sig i slipstrømmen af disse kvindeportrætter. Serien går imidlertid også sine egne veje og forholder sig – indimellem hysterisk morsomt - til postfeminismens idealer.

IN ENGLISH. Even before its release Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius (2016) became the centre of heated and public debate in Brazil, not least due to a protest at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival condemning the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff. In this feature, Steffen Hven explores how the film’s own conveyance of (political) resistance is far more subtle, mature, and nuanced than the turmoil surrounding its release would suggest.