Non -Fiction Film Culture in Sweden circa 1920–1960: Pragmatic Governance and Consensual Solidarity in a Welfare State

• The chapter sketches key developments within five types of Swedish non‐fiction film: educational film, advertising film, election film, newsreel, and amateur film. The focus lies on the ways in which these media practices were discussed, taught, organized, and carried out circa 1920–1960. In Sweden, the better part of this period was characterized by an unsurpassed increase in living standards set in motion by an almost constant financial growth that occurred within one of the largest and most successful social engineering projects ever undertaken, the Swedish Model Welfare State. The role and function of film within this unique national context is under scrutiny.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Annan humaniora -- Kulturstudier (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Other Humanities -- Cultural Studies (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi -- Historia (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology -- History (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Filmvetenskap (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Studies on Film (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Film

Sweden

welfare state

governance

1920–1960

Publication and Content Type

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