Author Ove Christensen

We all take in the world through our bodily perceptions and the inferences these perceptions give rise to. The shape and colour of a tree are understood as a tree because we have gotten used to connecting the p...

Before cinema studies was established as an academic enterprise there existed already a fair pile of theoretical writing on cinema. Hugo Münsterberg, Béla Balász and Rudolf Arnheim were the most prominent; howe...

In 1995 the (in)famous Danish director Lars von Trier and the young director Thomas Vinterberg launched a manifesto for filmmaking known as Dogma '95 and a set of rules – The Vow of Chastity – that had to be ob...