Acknowledgments; Notes 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 Hjertling Péronard; References; Index of film titles; Index of names; Index.