Televising the Famine : An Audiovisual Representation of the Famine in Northern Sweden, 1867-1868

Autor: Ludvigsson, David
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Popis: In the 1970s, historical documentarists Olle Häger and Hans Villius at the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation made both a documentary and a dramatic television production about the famine years of the 1860s. The productions indicate that a class perspective dominated popular culture at the time. Yet, not least the documentary (“Ett satans år,” [One Year of Satan] 1977) is evidence of how media producers sought to communicate seriously about famine in the past, at the same time relating to contemporary issues
Databáze: OpenAIRE