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East and West on the Finnish Screen: Early Transnational Television in Finland

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dc.creatorPajala, Mari
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-13T11:39:54Z
dc.date.available2020-08-13T11:39:54Z
dc.date.issued2014-06-24
dc.description.abstractResearch on Finnish television history has so far emphasized Western influences. However, the Finnish television environment was also shaped in many ways by contacts with socialist television cultures. This article analyses the first volume of the television magazine Katso to trace the various transnational relations, which shaped the early Finnish television environment and to discuss the cultural meanings of socialist television in this environment. Nearly every issue of Katso in 1960 discusses television in a transnational context. Transnational themes fall into four categories: (1) learning about television in other countries; (2) the Eurovision and Nordvision networks; (3) watching television across national borders (Swedish and Tallinn television but also television across surprising distances); and (4) visions of world television. Katso’s understanding of television emphasizes the literal meaning of television: to see far. The magazine sets no clear limits to what television could do in terms of overcoming physical distance and ideological borders. The magazine avoids overt politics in discussing television from both the West and the East and represents television broadcasting from Tallinn as a potential source of popular television for Finnish audiences.en
dc.identifier.doi10.18146/2213-0969.2014.jethc059
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14097
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/15060
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNetherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
dc.publisher.placeHilversum
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0969
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectFernsehende
dc.subjectTelevision in Finlanden
dc.subjectTelevision magazinesen
dc.subjectTelevision in the 1960sen
dc.subjectTransnational televisionen
dc.subject.ddcddc:070
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleEast and West on the Finnish Screen: Early Transnational Television in Finlanden
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T06:06:07
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2014.jethc059
local.source.epage99
local.source.issue5
local.source.spage88
local.source.volume3

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