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2. 1. Do You Have a TV? : Negotiating Swedish Public Service through 1950's Programming, "Americanization," and Domesticity

   Author : Tove Thorslund; Jan Olsson; Pelle Snickars; Mats Björkin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; television history; cultural history; public service; 1950s; television programming; intermediality; simulcast; program format; transnational; Americanization; domesticity; television set as furniture; everyday life; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

   Abstract : This dissertation presents a cultural history of early Swedish television. The focus is on the investigation of 1950s programming, intermedial connections, processes of “Americanization,” and domestic, socio-cultural change in direct relation to the new medium. READ MORE

4. 2. No alternatives : The end of ideology in the 1950s and the post-political world of the 1990s

   Author : Daniel Strand; Bosse Holmqvist; Mats Hallenberg; Howard Brick; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; intellectual history; political theory; philosophy of history; ideology; end of ideology; post-politics; modernization theory; Cold War; anticommunism; 1950s; 1990s; idéhistoria; History of Ideas;

   Abstract : In the 1950s, scholars in Europe and the United States announced the end of political ideology in the West. With the rise of affluent welfare states, they argued, ideological movements which sought to overthrow prevailing liberal democracy would disappear. READ MORE

5. 3. Tio fotografer - självsyn och bildsyn : Svensk fotografi under 1950-talet i ett internationellt perspektiv

   Author : Anna Tellgren; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Swedish Photography; 1950s Sweden; The Family of Man; Subjektive Fotografie; Visual communication; Visual language; Photo history; Photo theory; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

   Abstract : The dissertation Ten Photographers. Selfperception and Pictorial Perception. Swedish Photography in the I950s in an International Perspective concerns a dynamic decade for Swedish photography. READ MORE

6. 4. Suburbia Rewritten : Masculinity and Affect in Contemporary American Literature

   Author : Ola Jönsson; Danuta Fjellestad; Helena Wahlström Henriksson; Heinz Ickstadt; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Suburbia; affect; masculinity; domophobia; masculinity in crisis; separate spheres; fatherhood; Joyce Carol Oates; Rick Moody; Philip Roth; John Updike; Richard Yates; John Cheever.; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; Engelska;

   Abstract : Suburbia has made a powerful return in American literature of the past two decades. This renaissance of suburban fictional narrative bears the signum of alienated, anxious, and resentful white middle-class men in gray flannel suits that has remained since the formative postwar period of the 1950s and 1960s. READ MORE

7. 5. Ester Boman, Tyringe helpension och teatern : drama på en reformpedagogisk flickskola 1909-1936

   Author : Kent Hägglund; Bjørn Rasmussen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Boman; Ester; 1879-1947; Key; Ellen; 1849-1926; Almquist; Sofi; Tyringe helpension; Pedagogiskt drama; Kvinnliga pedagoger; Flickskolor; Sverige; 1900-talet;

   Abstract : It has long been taken for granted that no serious drama work was done in Swedish schools before the 1950s. However, at the Tyringe Helpension – a progressive education girls’ boarding school that existed between the years 1909-1936 – drama was used as a method in many school subjects, as well as for social training. READ MORE