Sökning: "americanization"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade ordet americanization.

1. 1. Culture Unbound: Americanization and Everyday Life in Sweden

   Författare :Thomas O'Dell; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethnology; Cultural anthropology; Sweden; Americanization; Culture; Modernity; Everyday Life; Transnational Cultural Processes; Globalization; Flow; Center Periphery; American Cars; Raggare; Counter-culture; Hippies; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

   Sammanfattning : This book investigates the significance processes of Americanization have had in shaping and influencing the form and content of everyday life in Sweden. However, rather than simply viewing Americanization as an irresistible homogenizing force, it is argued that to the extent that Swedish everyday life has been Americanized, it has been Americanized in a very Swedish way. LÄS MER

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

   Författare :Tove Thorslund; Jan Olsson; Pelle Snickars; Mats Björkin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :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;

   Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

4. 3. Americanitis : Amerika som sjukdom eller läkemedel : Svenska berättelser om USA åren 1900-1939

   Författare :Martin Alm; Historia; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Social and economic history; modernization; narrative; americanization; identity; nationalism; Nutidshistoria från 1914 ; Contemporary history since 1914 ; Ekonomisk och social historia;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to study Swedish notions of the USA and of things American and through them the Swedish self-image and the ideas about the Swedish future as seen in public debate in the period c. 1900-1939, when the USA was the subject of a good deal of discussion as an up-and-coming nation of great importance but was not yet recognized as an indisputable super power. LÄS MER

5. 4. Folkhemmet på is : Ishockey, modernisering och nationell identitet i Sverige 1920-1972

   Författare :Tobias Stark; Gunlög Fur; Johnny Wijk; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; ice hockey; bandy; Tre Kronor; sport; modernization; national identity; Americanization; social networks; People’s Home; the Swedish welfare state.; ishockey; bandy; Tre Kronor; idrott; sport; modernisering; nationell identitet; amerikanisering; sociala nätverk; den svenska modellen; folkhemmet; History; Historia; Idrottsvetenskap; Sport Science; Historia; History;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis concerns the development of Swedish ice hockey as a national phenomenon during the period 1920–1972. The dissertation explores how the sport of ice hockey in just over half a century was transformed from a rather insignificant North American cultural import to one of Sweden’s most treasured pursuits by and large, and harbouring a national team (known as “Tre Kronor”) that at the height of its popularity in 1970 gathered almost the whole nation (82 percent of the adult population) in front of TV-sets during national game broadcasts. LÄS MER

7. 5. Framing the Feature Film : Multi-Reel Feature Film and American Film Culture in the 1910s

   Författare :Joel Frykholm; Jan Olsson; Richard Abel; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; multi-reel feature film; cinema in the 1910s; early cinema; United States; film culture; Philadelphia; The Spoilers; transitional cinema; journalism; trade press; Film; Filmvetenskap; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation addresses the breakthrough of the multi-reel feature film in the United States, and the significance of this process within the wider context of the American film industry and culture in the 1910s. The purpose is to provide a new, and more comprehensive analytical framing of the topic, and to enhance our understanding of how a new central commodity, i. LÄS MER