Dr C. Claire Thomson is Senior Lecturer in Scandinavian Film at University College, London. She has published widely on Danish cinema, literature and culture, especially Carl Th. Dreyer, short films, multisensory cinema, and national identities. Her previous books include Thomas Vinterberg's Festen (University of Washington Press, 2013) and Northern Constellations: New Readings in Nordic Cinema (Norvik Press, 2006). She is an editor of the journals Scandinavica and Kosmorama.