This interdisciplinary course deals with the rhetorical use of media to establish power – in the past and in the present. We study the impact of new communication technologies such as writing, print and broadcasting on rhetoric, and we critically discuss rhetorical strategies and propaganda used by politicians and potentates.This interdisciplinary course deals with the rhetorical use of media to establish power – in the past and in the present. We study the impact of new communication technologies such as writing, print and broadcasting on rhetoric, and we critically discuss rhetorical strategies and propaganda used by politicians and potentates.

De fyra delkurserna är kronologiskt upplagda och berör de viktigaste utvecklingslinjerna i mediehistorien. Kommunikation genom text, ljud och bild diskuteras kontinuerligt i relation till ekonomisk, politisk, kulturell och social förändring. Grundläggande begrepp för mediehistoria introduceras. Kursen utgår från ett brett mediebegreppet och idén att olika medieformer måste förstås i relation till

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During World War II, middle-distance runner Gunder Hägg set 15 world records and became a media sport star of unprecedented magnitude in Sweden. This article turns attention to the role of radio broadcasts in the formation of Swedish “Hägg mania” 1941–45. When analyzed in terms of blindness, liveness and co-presence, radio broadcasts from this era reveal that radio announcers actively engaged with

This article examines the role of Swedish mail-order catalogues in the everyday life of the early twentieth century, and in the development of consumer culture. The study deals with the materiality, content and distribution of the mail-order catalogues as well as their use in everyday life. The case of Åhlén & Holm, a major Swedish mail-order company, and its audience is relevant beyond the na

Brevmall Språk- och litteraturcentrum Filmvetenskap 2 Litteraturlista för FIMN07 Teoretisk fördjupningskurs (inom masterprogrammet Film- och mediehistoria HAFMH) (7,5 högskolepoäng), vt 2016 (Fastställd styrgruppen för masterprogrammet Film- och mediehistoria, SOL-Centrum, 30 november 2015) Durovicova, Natasa & Kathleen Newman (eds.) (2007). World Cinema. Transnational Perspectives . London: Routl

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Employing the Foucauldian term ‘conduct’, this article explores how social resilience and morale became a target of state intervention in Denmark during the Cold War. ‘Psychological defence’ was a Cold War phenomenon designed to bring an imagined future war into a space of control as well as a tool for the authorities’ exercise of power in case another world war became a reality. Advocating a methEmploying the Foucauldian term ‘conduct’, this article explores how social resilience and morale became a target of state intervention in Denmark during the Cold War. ‘Psychological defence’ was a Cold War phenomenon designed to bring an imagined future war into a space of control as well as a tool for the authorities’ exercise of power in case another world war became a reality. Advocating a meth

During the interwar period, there was a surge in cultural diplomacy efforts in Europe. This article investigates the role of cultural diplomacy within the Swedish film society movement, focusing particularly on Lund Film Society’s travels abroad during the 1930s: to Nazi-Germany in 1935 and in 1938 respectively, as well as to the Soviet Union in 1936. Through international exchange, Lund Film Soci