Abstract

The Cold War between the East and West during the period 1945-1991 was a rivalry where the world’s doom constantly emerged as a possible result. The Cold War was global and included northern European countries like Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway in different ways. Historians are still discussing how Cold War history should be understood in these countries, but they have rarely been concerned about mass media and communications. Meanwhile, many media scholars have neglected the theme entirely. In this book, these two areas of knowledge are combined in new research on the Nordic mass media, and its significance during the Cold War. A number of controversial topics are covered. Nineteen Nordic scholars sheds new light on Nordic print media in all four countries, but also write about radio and the television broadcasting. Extending the traditional Cold War research on media and communication to include sport, magazines for men, political cartoons, and films, the book lays the foundation for Cold War studies to become an integrated interdisciplinary field of knowledge, and a more central part of the Nordic media research than before - with countless opportunities for exciting new research, with high relevance to world conflicts in our own time. Die Beiträge und Autoren sind: 1. Henrik G. Bastiansen, Rolf Werenskjold: Mapping Nordic Media and the Cold War; 2. Morten Jentoft: Radio Moscow – Propaganda from the East – in Norwegian; 3. Raimo Salokangas: The Shadow of the Bear. Finnish Broadcasting, National Interest and Self-censorship during the Cold War; 4. Lotta Lounasmeri: A Careful Balancing Act. Finnish Culture of Self-censorship in the Cold War; 5. Laura Saarenmaa: Political Nonconformity in Finnish Men’s Magazines during the Cold War; 6. Hans Fredrik Dahl: The Wallenberg Case as a Cold War Issue; 7. Birgitte Kjos Fonn: East-West Conflict, West-West Divide? Western Self-Awareness in a Cold War Dissenter Newspaper; 8. Patrik Åker: The Space Race in the Swedish Press during the Cold War Era. A Celebration of Transparent Western Television; 9. Peter Dahlén, Tobias Stark: Political Resistance on Ice. The 1969 Ice Hockey World Championship in the Swedish and Norwegian Press; 10. Marie Cronqvist: Cold War Sweden and the Media. A Historiographical Overview and a Glance Ahead; 11. Paul Bjerke: “The Most Disgraceful of All Crimes”. Critical Journalism during the Cold War? A Norwegian Spy Case Study; 12. Oddbjørn Melle: Norway’s Olympic Cold War, 1980. A Neighbouring Country’s Response to the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan; 13. Palle Roslyng-Jensen: Media Securitization and Public Opinion. Denmark and the Euro-Missile Issue 1979-1983; 14. Terje Rasmussen: Politics, Press and the Euro-missiles. The Take-off of the Euro-missile Conflict in Norway; 15. Rolf Werenskjold, Erling Sivertsen: Soviet and American Leaders in Ice-Cold Lines. The Political Cartoons in the Norwegian Newspaper Aftenposten 1980-1984; 16. Henrik G. Bastiansen: Towards Glasnost?. A Case Study of the Norwegian News Coverage of Mikhail Gorbachev as Soviet Leader in 1985; 17. Bjørn Sørenssen: Frozen Kisses. Cinematographical Reflections on Norway’s Role; 18. Jon Raundalen: The End of the World Revisited. Nuclear War Films and their Reception in Norwegian Media. Verl.-Info und Inhaltsverzeichnis