Eirik Frisvold Hanssen – Screening the Past

A Doll’s House and the Performance of Gender in American Silent Cinema

Post author:Eirik Frisvold Hanssen
Post published:August 26, 2015
Post category:Issue 40 - First Release

In the US during the silent period, four film adaptations of Henrik Ibsen’s play, A Doll’s House (Et dukkehjem) from 1879, were produced, all of which are considered to be…