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Vesterlund, Per, UniversitetslektorORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0003-0505-9119
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Vesterlund, P. (2021). Home to the Village – The politics of domestic migration represented in Swedish TV-fiction in the 1960s and 1970s. In: : . Paper presented at NECS Conference 2021, Transitions: Moving images and bodies. Palermo, Italien 7-13 juni (online).
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Home to the Village – The politics of domestic migration represented in Swedish TV-fiction in the 1960s and 1970s
2021 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The longest-running TV-drama serial in the history of Swedish television is Hem till byn (Home to the village). The first episode was shown in November 1971, and the last one was aired in October 2006. Hem till byn was originally intended as a mini-series of six episodes, but popularity gave it seven more seasons during more than three decades. 

The broad historical context of Hem till byn was the urbanization of Sweden in the 1960s and early 1970s. With the national project “miljonprogrammet” [the million programme], a mass housing public program, the Swedish government intended to put an end to the housing shortages. About one million new dwellings were built during a ten-year period (1.005.578 dwellings 1965-1974). The suburbs of the three largest cities – Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö – are the most usual examples of this huge project, but most Swedish cities were subject to a massive change concerning the design of the cityscape. 

During all seasons of Hem till byn, the centre of the story is a small rural village in the south-west of Sweden, and its inhabitants. Domestic migration and urbanization are main themes all through Hem till byn, especially during the first three seasons 1971-1976. 

A narrower historical context of Hem till byn is the production strategy of Swedish Television during the late 1960s and early 1970s. With influences from foremost recent developments of semi-documentary narration in British TV-drama, Swedish public service broadcasting company Sveriges Radio radically changed the drama production policy in the late 1960s. Swedish TV-drama was now focusing social issues. Rural depopulation was one such issue. In this paper I will discuss and analyse this theme in the first three seasons of Hem till byn, as well as in other contemporary drama productions. Key concepts are among others urbanisation, (anti-)modernism, environmental critique and realistic drama.     

Keywords
television, urbanisation, modernism, environmental critique, realistic drama
National Category
Studies on Film
Research subject
no Strategic Research Area (SFO)
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-36873 (URN)
Conference
NECS Conference 2021, Transitions: Moving images and bodies. Palermo, Italien 7-13 juni (online)
Available from: 2021-08-06 Created: 2021-08-06 Last updated: 2021-08-17Bibliographically approved
Vesterlund, P. (2021). Samvetsnödens svenska TV-historia?: Om den audivisuella skildringen av tro, moral och etik i en sekulär tid. In: Olov Dahlin, Sara Duppils, Jari Ristiniemi (Ed.), Människan i en existentiell kultur: En antologi om Människa-Kultur-Religionsprogrammet vid Högskolan i Gävle (pp. 37-57). Gävle: Gävle University Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Samvetsnödens svenska TV-historia?: Om den audivisuella skildringen av tro, moral och etik i en sekulär tid
2021 (Swedish)In: Människan i en existentiell kultur: En antologi om Människa-Kultur-Religionsprogrammet vid Högskolan i Gävle / [ed] Olov Dahlin, Sara Duppils, Jari Ristiniemi, Gävle: Gävle University Press , 2021, p. 37-57Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

Denna artikel om svensk TV-dramatik anknyter till bokens båda teman människan i samtiden och existentiell kultur. De TV-produktioner som behandlas är visserligen långt ifrån nya, men gjordes med ambitionen att skildra livsvillkoren för sin samtids människor. På så sätt är de också exempel på existentiell kultur. Bilden av det svenska välfärdssamhället som sekulärt är etablerad. Utifrån en genomgång av samhällskritisk svensk TV-dramatik som producerades under åren runt 1970 visas dock här att det i offentligheten fanns ett tydligt intresse för moral och tro. I artikeln ges inledningsvis en överblick av den dramatik Sveriges Radio producerade för TV. Sedan diskuteras några konkreta exempel på svenskt TV-drama från tiden ifråga. Några av dem behandlar explicit frågor om religion och tro. Andra är snarare exempel på hur livsåskådningsfrågor och idealitet tematiseras även i produktioner som inte primärt fokuserar kyrkliga eller ens religiösa kontexter. En viktig del av analysen utgör de ideal och värderingar som det offentliga mottagandet av TV-dramatiken i dagspressen rymmer, men även innehållsliga och estetiska aspekter diskuteras.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Gävle: Gävle University Press, 2021
Series
Scientific studies of religion from the University of Gävle, ISSN 1652-7895 ; 11
Keywords
TV-drama, religion, public service, sekularisering
National Category
Arts Media and Communications
Research subject
Innovative Learning
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-34380 (URN)978-91-88145-56-7 (ISBN)978-91-88145-57-4 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-11-24 Created: 2020-11-24 Last updated: 2021-03-10Bibliographically approved
Vesterlund, P. (2021). We have our own song: Documenting an alternative media event. In: : . Paper presented at 8th Lübeck Film Studies Colloquium, 5-6 november 2021.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>We have our own song: Documenting an alternative media event
2021 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

We have our own song - The music movie (Vi har vår egen sång – musikfilmen) is a Swedish musical documentary produced in 1976 that documented the so-called alternative music festival that was aired live from Stockholm by the public service channel TV2 on March 21, 1975. This film is a rare case of interaction between different institutional contexts in the Swedish 1970s associated with national left-wing culture and an example of how the radical zeitgeist was manifested in an alternative media event. The film will be discussed from two different perspectives. First, it will be presented as a well-documented case-study of the strategies of Swedish film producers to gain subsidies from the Swedish film institute in creative manners. Second, its qualities as a unique audiovisual representation of the alternative music movement of Sweden in the 1970s, which at the time was reaching its peak, will be highlighted.

Keywords
film politics, alternative culture, music documentary
National Category
Studies on Film
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-37561 (URN)
Conference
8th Lübeck Film Studies Colloquium, 5-6 november 2021
Available from: 2021-12-28 Created: 2021-12-28 Last updated: 2022-01-04Bibliographically approved
Vesterlund, P. (2020). “I really like your analysis, but what is your method?”:: Tensions between scholarly traditions in media studies and cinema studies. In: : . Paper presented at Lübeck Film Studies Colloquium, November 6, 2020 (Online).
Open this publication in new window or tab >>“I really like your analysis, but what is your method?”:: Tensions between scholarly traditions in media studies and cinema studies
2020 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
Keywords
method, media studies, cinema studies
National Category
Studies on Film
Research subject
no Strategic Research Area (SFO)
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-34382 (URN)
Conference
Lübeck Film Studies Colloquium, November 6, 2020 (Online)
Available from: 2020-11-24 Created: 2020-11-24 Last updated: 2020-11-25Bibliographically approved
Vesterlund, P. (2020). Norsk film A/S: En kulturhistorie [Review]. FLM (4), 68-69
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Norsk film A/S: En kulturhistorie
2020 (Swedish)In: FLM, ISSN 1654-711X, no 4, p. 68-69Article, book review (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
National Category
Studies on Film
Research subject
no Strategic Research Area (SFO)
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-34604 (URN)
Available from: 2020-12-23 Created: 2020-12-23 Last updated: 2021-01-04Bibliographically approved
Vesterlund, P. (2020). Uses of Vulnerability: Two Eras of Social Committment in Swedish TV Drama?. In: Adriana Margareta Dancus, Mats Hyvönen & Maria Karlsson (Ed.), Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture: (pp. 127-150). Palgrave Macmillan
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Uses of Vulnerability: Two Eras of Social Committment in Swedish TV Drama?
2020 (English)In: Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture / [ed] Adriana Margareta Dancus, Mats Hyvönen & Maria Karlsson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, p. 127-150Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
Keywords
TV Drama, Nordic Noir, Welfare State, Realism, Public Service
National Category
Studies on Film Arts
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-33251 (URN)10.1007/978-3-030-37382-5_7 (DOI)2-s2.0-85087902544 (Scopus ID)978-3-030-37381-8 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-07-22 Created: 2020-07-22 Last updated: 2021-06-17Bibliographically approved
Vesterlund, P. (2019). Bortom vita duken: Vad händer med dem specialiserade filmanalysen när alla använder rörliga bilder [Review]. FLM (4), 54-55
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Bortom vita duken: Vad händer med dem specialiserade filmanalysen när alla använder rörliga bilder
2019 (Swedish)In: FLM, ISSN 1654-711X, no 4, p. 54-55Article, book review (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
National Category
Studies on Film Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-31348 (URN)
Available from: 2019-12-19 Created: 2019-12-19 Last updated: 2020-01-07Bibliographically approved
Vesterlund, P. (2019). Ett steg på framåtskridandets väg?: Arbetarrörelsen, filmen och historien. In: Johan A. Lundin & Emma Hillborn (Ed.), Mot ljuset: En antologi om arbete, arbetare och arbetarrörelse (pp. 8-25). Landskrona: Centrum för arbetarhistoria
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Ett steg på framåtskridandets väg?: Arbetarrörelsen, filmen och historien
2019 (Swedish)In: Mot ljuset: En antologi om arbete, arbetare och arbetarrörelse / [ed] Johan A. Lundin & Emma Hillborn, Landskrona: Centrum för arbetarhistoria , 2019, p. 8-25Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Landskrona: Centrum för arbetarhistoria, 2019
Series
Skrifter från Centrum för arbetarhistoria ; 9
Keywords
filmpolitik, arbetarrörelsen, filmbolag, politisk film
National Category
Studies on Film
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-31408 (URN)978-91-979661-5-3 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-01-13 Created: 2020-01-13 Last updated: 2020-01-17Bibliographically approved
Vesterlund, P. (2019). Om den förlorade sakligheten: En tendens i svenska dokumentära TV-bilder under 2000-talet. In: : . Paper presented at Populism, demokrati och humaniora. Högskolan i Gävle. 14-15 november 2019.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Om den förlorade sakligheten: En tendens i svenska dokumentära TV-bilder under 2000-talet
2019 (Swedish)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

En traditionell förståelse av dokumentärfilmen placerar den i de saklighetens diskursiva fält som utgörs av områden som vetenskap, ekonomi och politik. I de senaste decenniernas essäistiska och postmoderna dokumentärfilm är dock en tydligt relativiserande och subjektivistisk utveckling en ofta iakttagen estetisk tendens. Här argumenteras för att tendenser som utmanar dokumentära filmers objektivistiska normer inte bara är en företeelse synlig i en smal konstnärligt orienterad filmkultur, utan också tydligt präglar ett bredare utbud av samhällsorienterad TV-dokumentär.  I presentationen diskuteras hur: 1) Ett retoriskt skifte successivt kan skönjas vad gäller de estetiska idealen för breda dokumentära reportage och filmer, där ett större fokus kommit att ligga på subjektivitet och känslor. Och mindre på sakframställning. 2) Hur (fr.a.) TV-reportage och dokumentärer under 2000-talet blivit allt viktigare katalysatorer i samhällspolitiska processer, i offentliga debatter och till och med i rättsfrågor. Exempel som tas upp är de två filmerna Könskriget (2005), filmerna Experimenten om kirurgen Macchiarini (2016) samt dokumentären Älska mig för den jag är om sångerskan Josefin Nilsson (2019). 3) Hur dessa filmer samspelar med en offentlighet i omvandling där nya medier i hög grad är arenor för en känslomässigt fokuserad diskussion, och där TV-dokumentärer i flera fall blivit utgångspunkter för inte bara debatt utan också lett till beslut i rättsprocesser och påverkat politiska skeenden

Keywords
TV-dokumentärer, populism, public service
National Category
Studies on Film
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-30987 (URN)
Conference
Populism, demokrati och humaniora. Högskolan i Gävle. 14-15 november 2019
Available from: 2019-11-18 Created: 2019-11-18 Last updated: 2019-11-19Bibliographically approved
Vesterlund, P. (2019). Television spies, Swedish neutrality and nostalgia in the mini-series Operation Argus and Kullamannen. In: : . Paper presented at Lübeck Film Studies Colloquium, November 1-2, 2019. Lübeck, Germany.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Television spies, Swedish neutrality and nostalgia in the mini-series Operation Argus and Kullamannen
2019 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Television spies, Swedish neutrality and nostalgia in the mini-seris Operation Argus and Kullamannen

Two of the most popular Swedish mini-series in the mid 1960s were Operation Argus (1966) and Kullamannen (“The Man from the Hill”, 1967). Operation Argus was a spy story situated in and around the Swedish navy during World War II. Kullamannen was a spy thriller produced for children (and with children as protagonists) in a contemporary, idyllic rural setting in southern Sweden, where a summer vacation turns into a dangerous game about war and peace. In the paper I use the Cold-War context of the 1960s as a point of departure, since this was of key importance for the then so popular spy genre in the strictly neutral Sweden, in order to discuss how this context is present in two generically quite different mini-series. The Cold-war is absent in both cases. In Operation Argus through the WWIi-context, in Kullamannen with both heroes and villians representing unnamned countries. I also note how the two productions relate to the concept of nostalgia - nostalgia both as represented and as retrospective reception.

Keywords
TV-drama, Cold War, Spy Genres, Neutrality, Nostalgia
National Category
Studies on Film
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-30986 (URN)
Conference
Lübeck Film Studies Colloquium, November 1-2, 2019. Lübeck, Germany
Available from: 2019-11-18 Created: 2019-11-18 Last updated: 2021-06-17Bibliographically approved
Projects
Citizen Schein - Studying Swedish Cinema Culture, Media Politics and the Archive of Harry Schein [2009-01497_VR]; University of Gävle; Publications
Vesterlund, P. (2019). Ur Harry Scheins arkiv: Nedslag i 1900-talets svenska mediehistoria. Lund: Mediehistoriskt arkivVesterlund, P. (2016). The Celebrity in the Archive: Schein and Memory. In: : . Paper presented at Deconstructing Harry: The Many Academic Lives of Harry Schein, 26-27 feb 2016, IMS Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. Vesterlund, P. (2015). Samhället i medierna?: Harry Schein och medieforskningen. In: Mats Hyvönen, Pelle Snickars & Per Vesterlund (Ed.), Massmedieproblem: Mediestudiets formering (pp. 349-374). Lund: Lunds universitetVesterlund, P. (2014). National Film Policy as a Media Event. In: : . Paper presented at The NECS 2014 Conference, Creative energies » Creative industries, 19-21 June 2014, Milan, Italy. Vesterlund, P. (2014). När medier blev vetenskap: Om tre nordiska massmediekonferenser 1972-1974. In: Cronqvist, Marie, Lundell, Patrik & Snickars, Pelle (Ed.), Återkopplingar: (pp. 51-70). Lund: Mediehistoriskt Arkiv, Lunds universitetVesterlund, P. (2013). Cinema studies in the service of liberty?: The early research on media effects by “Filmforskningsgruppen” at the Swedish Film Institute 1964–1971. In: : . Paper presented at ECREA Film Studies Section Interim Conference, 8-9 November 2013, Lund, Sweden. Vesterlund, P. (2013). När medier blev vetenskap: tre nordiska massmediekonferenser 1972-1974. In: : . Paper presented at Kulturhistorisk medieforskning III - Nordiska perspektiv, 23-24 april 2013, Lund, Sverige. Vesterlund, P. (2013). Vägen till filmavtalet: Harry Scheins filmpolitiska aktivitet innan 1963. Nordisk kulturpolitisk tidskrift, 16(1), 45-67Vesterlund, P. (2012). Arkivvärde, programvärde, marknadsvärde. In: Mats Jönsson, Pelle Snickars (Ed.), "Skosmörja eller arkivdokument": Om filmarkivet.se och den digitala filmhistorien (pp. 49-66). Stockholm: Kungliga biblioteketVesterlund, P. (2012). Pull Out the Cable!: The Public Reception of a Suggested National Politics on Audiovisual Media and Telecommunication in Sweden in 1972.. In: : . Paper presented at TIME NETWORKS: SCREEN MEDIA AND MEMORY The NECS 2012 Conference Lisbon, 21st-23th June 2012 Hosted by the New University of Lisbon and the University of Coimbra.
The Vulnerable Society Visualized: The welfare state and societal change studied through Swedish TV-drama 1965-1975 [2020-02736_VR]; Uppsala University
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