Doxtater, Amanda, Terror Melodrama, Race and the Nation: Ulaa Salim’s Sons of Denmark, Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, 12.1 (2022), 47–56
Ulaa Salim’s 2019 film, Sons of Denmark, employs terror melodrama, an iteration of the melodramatic mode related to 9/11 that represents the nation as innocent and violated. This allows the film to raise questions about masculinity, systemic racism and white innocence in the decades-long rise of far-right political parties in Denmark.