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- Hyvönen, Mats, 1973-, et al.
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The Formation of Swedish Media Studies, 1960–1980
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Ingår i: Media History. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1368-8804 .- 1469-9729. ; 24:1, s. 86-98
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Around 1960, the politics of the emerging media society in Sweden tended to fixate the formative functions of mass communication. The monopoly of public service broadcast media, press subsidies and new tendencies in film policy were some of the issues around which uncertainty prevailed. New methods to provide reliable data were sought by politicians, since empirical facts were required as arguments for an updated media policy. This article examines the different ways that the field of media studies was introduced in Sweden between 1960 and 1980. We argue that Swedish academic media studies departed from, and emerged within, a rather diffuse borderland between industry, politics and academia. The formation of national media research in Sweden can partly be seen as an effect of politicians and the media industry wanting to be better informed on issues such as media influence, media ownership and the habits and composition of the media audience.
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- Vesterlund, Per, 1961-
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“…but of course we recognized ourselves” : A case study of the reception of Swedish televisual fiction in the 1970s and 1980s
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Per Vesterlund, University of Gävle With a starting point in the increasing amount of domestic fiction and documentaries in Swedish television after the introduction of the second national public service channel in 1969, the 1970s is domestically remembered as a decade of social issue television. This profile of national TV-production did not end until the late 1980s with another breaking point in the history of Swedish television – the introduction of cable-TV and a new commercial logic.In the intersection between History and Film studies, cinematic memories have frequently served as a topic of historical interest. Televisual drama has though been somewhat less discussed in this academic context, which might be regarded surprising bearing in mind the impact of the medium – especially in the late 20th century.The programs made during these years are thus part of a national TV-history, representing (changing) ideas of what a audiovisual fiction preferably would achieve in terms of aesthetic as well as of didactic and political means. But they are also a part of the national memory at the time, often in retrospective signifying an era of political awareness – or of public leftist repression.In this paper I will – as a pilot on a planned project on the Swedish TV-fiction of the time – discuss the public reception of two social issue mini-series, Lära för livet (Learning for Life, 1977) and Babels hus (The House of Babel 1981). Each of them focusing on key-areas of the welfare state - public school and health care, respectively – they were both subject of intense media debate. The discussions did not so much focus the quality of the two series, as it did the question of whether the reality the described were accurate. Theme: Television drama, public reception, social issues, memories, cultural flows, References: John Caughie, Television drama: Realism, modernism, and British culture (Oxford Univ. Press, 2000) Anna Edin, Den föreställda publiken (Brutus Östlings förlag, 2000) Janet Staiger, Interpreting Films (Princeton University Press, 1992) Janet Staiger, Media Reception Studies (New York University, 2005)
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- Vesterlund, Per, 1961-, et al.
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Efterord
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Ingår i: Massmedieproblem. - Lund : Lunds universitet. - 9789198196146 ; , s. 397-405
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- Vesterlund, Per, Universitetslektor, 1961-
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Loyalty and Betrayal in Swedish TV-fiction : The radical 1970s and contemporary Nordic Noir
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Swedish TV-drama from the 1970s and (to lower extent) the 1980s have usually been identified with an overt social content. Societal institutions of the welfare state, like public schools or health care, were often in focus. When the Scandinavian crime fiction of today is said to contain social perspectives, and sometimes to depict the disruption of the welfare state, Swedish TV-fiction of the 1970s seems to have been just as critical towards the contemporary society.The paper will discuss the aesthetic and rhetorical strategies in the narrative and visual depiction of the relation between individual characters and institutions. With vulnerability as one main concept, the era of Swedish TV-fiction of the 1970s and 1980s will be related to later periods – foremost contemporary criminal fiction of the 2010s. The interplay between vulnerability of institutions and the vulnerability of citizens will be one of several tentative thematic issues discussed.
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