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Nordic Media Histories of Propaganda and Persuasion: An Introduction
The introduction to the edited collection maps the overarching aims of the book, discusses the time frame and the geographical focus, and situates...
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Norwegian Defence and Security Policy: The Struggle for Hearts and Minds in the 1950s
Even though the Scandinavian countries had failed to create a common defence union at the end of the 1940s, their governments soon managed to create...
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Propaganda, Pedagogy, and Cultural Authority: The Fascist theatre in Italy and Abroad
This essay describes the propagandistic and pedagogic uses of the theatre by Benito Mussolini's fascist regime in Italy, 1922–1945. Working with the...
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Mobilizing Scandinavian Children and Youth for the Environment: Launching a Transnational Campaign 1968–1971
In 1968, Swedish insurance company Folksam launched the information campaign Front mot miljöförstöringen (“Front against Environmental Degradation”)....
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Promoting Norden and Nordic Cooperation in the 1930s: Social Democratic Visions and Transmedial Manifestations
The 1930s represent a pivotal period for reinventing and consolidating Norden as a distinct region, characterized by increasing inter-Nordic...
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Afterword 1
In this afterword, Nicholas J. Cull ties together the chapters in Nordic Media Histories of Propaganda and Persuasion and argues that they tell a...
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“It All Comes from Beer”: Tuborg, Carlsberg, and the Role of Film in Danish Cultural Diplomacy
It All Comes from Beer is the title of a 1952 short film, commissioned by Carlsberg to showcase its philanthropic contributions to science and art in...
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Slow Media Under Cross Pressures: US Educational Diplomacy in the Nordic Countries During the Cold War
This chapter examines the transatlantic educational exchange during the Cold War as the manifestation of American public diplomacy. It asks how...
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Goebbels’ Propagandists at Work: From Training the Film Elite at Home to Film Policy in Occupied Norway
When Norway was occupied by the Wehrmacht, German authorities established a propaganda branch to determine strategies for its information policy....
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The German Theatre in Oslo
In this essay, Heinrich traces the history of the German theatre in Oslo. The author starts by locating the role of Norway and the Norwegians in Nazi...
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Green States in a Dirty World: 1975 and the Performance of Nordic Green Modern
This chapter examines the 1975 Nordic Council conference at Frostavallen in Sweden as a transnational media event which specifically sought to...
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Transforming Conditions of Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism
This chapter provides an in-depth understanding of the conditions for feminist and LGBTI+ activism in Russia, Turkey, and Scandinavia, including...
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Reflecting on Two Decades of Strategic Choices: A Practitioners Examination of SABC Public Service Radio Product Management from 1996 to 2016
This chapter undertakes a historical analysis of the on-air product of the public service radio of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)...
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Cross-Border Journalism and Public Diplomacy
This chapter approaches cross-border journalism (CBJ) from the perspective of public diplomacy (PD). After an overview of the theoretical foundations...
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The Nordic Mobilization of Public Opinion on Foreign Aid in the UN’s Second Development Decade
This chapter contributes to the understudied research areas of Nordic foreign aid media history and Nordic co-operations concerning the mobilization...
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Gender and Motherhood in Danish Social Policy
The Danish welfare state is often considered a model for facilitating women’s employment, gender equality and broad-reaching social support for all....
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Cinephiles without Films: Culture, Censorship and Alternative Forms of Film Consumption in Spain and the GDR around 1960
The chapter focuses on the specialised film cultures that emerged around film clubs, magazines or film schools in the dictatorial regimes of...
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Polish Culture? World on Fire, Transnational Coproduction and the Inscription of Cultural Specificity
This chapter studies the BBC/PBS coproduction World on Fire (2019–present) as an example of new high-end transnational television drama that...
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How COVID-19 Affected the Practice of Investigative Journalism in Norway and China
Unlike other global crises, the COVID-19 pandemic offered researchers a unique opportunity to better understand the ways in which journalistic...
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A New Press Theory: Democratic Revival
This chapter introduces a new theory of the press developed by the author. Called Democratic Revival theory, it focuses on the functions that the...