Communicating the North : media structures and images in the making of the Nordic Region

Communicating the North : media structures and images in the making of the Nordic Region /

"What makes a magazine in South Africa promote Scandinavian unity among its immigrant readers and why does a Swedish king endorse attempts to influence pan-Scandinavian opinion through a transnational media event in Sweden, Norway and Denmark? Can portraits of exotic Lapplanders in the British...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Harvard, Jonas (Editor), Stadius, Peter (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington : Ashgate, 2013
Series:Nordic experience (Ashgate (Firm)) ; 3.
Subjects:
Mass media and culture > Scandinavia.
Mass media and nationalism > Scandinavia.
Scandinavia > In mass media.
Scandinavia > Press coverage.
Electronic books.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • A Communicative Perspective on the Formation of the North: Contexts, Channels and Concepts / Jonas Harvard & Peter Stadius
  • Nordic Media Systems 1850-1950: Myths, Mixtures and Metamorphoses / Lars Nord
  • Connecting the Nordic Region: The Electric Telegraph and the European News Market / Jonas Harvard
  • Media Scandinavianism: Media Events and the Historical Legacy of Pan-Scandinavianism / Jonas Harvard & Magdalena Hillström
  • Nordic Solidarity in Print: The Association "Nordens Frihet" and its magazine, 1939-45 / Tora Byström
  • Expressions of Pan-Scandinavian Sentiments in the Magazine Fram among Scandinavian Migrants in South Africa, 1914-1954 / Erlend Eidsvik
  • "One Valhalla of the Free": Scandinavia, Britain and Northern Identity in the Mid-Nineteenth Century / Andrew Newby
  • Selling the Sami: Nordic Stereotypes and Participatory Media in Georgian Britain / Linda Andersson Burnett
  • The Valkyrie in Bikini: The Nordic Woman as Progressive Media Icon in Spain, 1891-1975 / Elena Lindholm Narvaez
  • Unity Expo(se)d: the Scandinavia Pavilions at the World Exhibitions in 1967 and 1970 / Nikolas Glover
  • Happy Countries: Appraisals of Inter-War Nordic Societies / Peter Stadius
  • A Swedish Norden or a Nordic Sweden? Image Politics in the West during the Cold War / Carl Marklund
  • Constructing a Nordic Community through the Polish Press: Past and Present / Kazimierz Musia & Maja Chaciska
  • Conclusion: Mediating the Nordic Brand : History Recycled / Jonas Harvard & Peter Stadius.

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