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- Björkin, Mats, 1967
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Ports as nodes in film logistics: Swedish film agent Oscar Rosenberg in the years after the First World War
- 2023
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Ingår i: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies (EJMS). - 2213-0217. ; Spring 2023
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ports make visible neglected details in the history of film distribution. The international shipment of film connected for more than half a century the main nodes in the network of film distribution. This article is mapping questions on port-related logistical challenges, based on the personal and corporate collections of Swedish film distributor Oscar Rosenberg (1874-1943) and his film agency from around 1916 to 1930, and the changing conditions for four Swedish ports the years around 1920.
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- Björkin, Mats, 1967
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Post-war Industrial Media Culture in Sweden, 1945-1960: New Faces, New Values
- 2021
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- During the 1950s in Sweden, companies aiming for international markets demanded new theories and methods of communication. Ideas regarding cybernetics, systems analysis, new accounting practices, and budgetary principles as well as theories of information, communication, marketing, public relations, and organization were discussed at conferences and seminars and in courses, articles, and books. At the same time, new technologies were introduced that changed corporate communication, from loose-leaf accounting systems to mechanical and electronic business machines, from written texts and oral presentations to slide shows, audio tapes, films, television, and flannelgraphs. By looking at a vast array of objects and relations related to uses of media technologies in Swedish industry from the end of World War II to the breakthrough of television, this book shows what happened in the glitches between mass communication and interaction, and how Swedish industry after the war worked to disrupt established understandings of communication.
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- Ulfsdotter, Boel, 1959, et al.
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The Gothenburg International Exile Film Festival In Context
- 2019
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Ingår i: Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere / edited by Anna Westerstahl Stenport and Arne Lunde.. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. - 9781474438056 ; , s. 94-102
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Nordic film cutlures explored across various cross-cultural contact zones through the prism of cinematic "elsewheres".
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- Thorslund, Tove, 1979-
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Do You Have a TV? : Negotiating Swedish Public Service through 1950's Programming, "Americanization," and Domesticity
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation presents a cultural history of early Swedish television. The focus is on the investigation of 1950s programming, intermedial connections, processes of “Americanization,” and domestic, socio-cultural change in direct relation to the new medium. By using a wide range of sources—archival materials, official records, newspaper articles, advertisements, and more—the dissertation examines discourses on how television was experienced during its installation years in Swedish homes, as well as how U.S. television contents were perceived and came to be a sizeable part of early Swedish television. This thesis thereby endeavors to contribute to a wider, transnational framing of Swedish television history. The first chapter examines the scheduling practices and ideas of television programming in the 1950s. The engagement is with notions of medium specificity and intermedial connections between television, radio and film. The chapter further provides a background to how principles for programming were discussed before the televisual start and during the medium’s first years of operation in Sweden. The second chapter offers a case study of television program schedules between 1956 and 1959. It addresses the kind of programs, or categories, the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation invested in; patterns in the daily, weekly and seasonal schedule; increase in broadcasting hours; and prominent countries within the international television material. The case study primarily displays a hitherto largely overlooked influence that came from the U.S. and its commercial television program model.The third chapter discusses various forms of American influences on early Swedish television. A recurring cause of concern in Swedish media in the 1950s was that the Swedish public service television could be, and at times was, associated with “Americanization” and commercial popular culture at large. However, instead of defining Swedish public service television in contrast to the U.S. commercial television model, this dissertation argues that the formative years of Swedish television, in various ways, was a convergence of the British public service model and of U.S. program techniques, ideas and formats. Lastly, the forth chapter deals with the cultural changes that resulted from television’s incursion into private homes and living rooms. The chapter examines the television set as a new furniture, within a broader framework of the “people’s home” and the functionalistic ideals of the 1950s. It further addresses how the new medium was marketed to the public, and states that the excitement for television segued to a variety of product advertisements that used the new media as a promoter for an array of commodities.The study concludes that programs, formats, and ideas from the U.S., and not—as one might have thought—the UK, constituted the largest number of imported materials on Swedish television during the 1950s. Swedish public service television thus made use of transnational flows from U.S. commercial television networks right from the start, while simultaneously discursively distancing itself from this model of television. Furthermore, the dissertation shows that these programs and formats were pivotal for rapidly turning television into a popular media of entertainment, and a soon-to-be-natural part of the Swedish domestic setting in the 1950s.
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- Ulfsdotter, Boel, 1959, et al.
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Far East Film Festival 20
- 2018
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Ingår i: Alphaville, Journal of Film and Screen Media. - 2009-4078. ; :15, s. 168-173
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- filmfestival, östasiatisk film, populärfilm
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- Björkin, Mats, 1967
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Come and Blow the Horn: Sound, Sex and Cultural Heritage
- 2016
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Ingår i: Swedish cinema and the sexual revolution : critical essays / edited by Elisabet Björklund and Mariah Larsson. - Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland. - 9781476665443 ; , s. 86-97
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Björkin, Mats, 1967
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Reconstructing past media ecologies: The 1960s generation in Sweden
- 2015
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Ingår i: European Journal of Communication. - : SAGE Publications. - 0267-3231 .- 1460-3705. ; 30:1, s. 50-63
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines how an analysis of a broader media ecology of a particular generation can offer a more complex account of past audience habits than the ones we gain from quantitative audience ratings based on one medium alone. It also shows how past surveys can be put to use anew within new theoretical frameworks. The main argument is based on a cultural studies–inspired interpretation of a home electronics survey, conducted by the Swedish public service radio’s research unit in 1985. The main focus is on members of the cohort born during the 1960s, who grew up with television and quickly became avid television users. The longitudinal analysis of television preferences within the broader media ecology of this generation sheds new light on the relationships between different media, but also on the long-term impact that a particular media ecology may have on one’s engagement with the media at later stages of life.
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