Videos by Rolf Werenskjold
The Cold War in Political Cartoons in the Norwegian Newspaper Aftenposten 1975-1991.
Tittel: Th... more The Cold War in Political Cartoons in the Norwegian Newspaper Aftenposten 1975-1991.
Tittel: The Cold War in Political Cartoons
Idea, research, and executive producer: Rolf Werenskjold
Producers: Rolf Werenskjold, Andres Mänd, and Dave King
Direction and animation: Anne-Lise Nemorin, Belen Ruiz Palomo, Eduardo Garcia, Julie Heugue, Pavla Michalkova, Robin Barry, and Sander Joon.
Graphic Design: Thomas Lewe
Music: Guided Missiles by THE CUFF LINKS (Alfred Gaitwood)
Dootone Records 1956
Based on the original cartoons in Aftenposten 1975-1991 by:
Kåre Bondesen
Jan O. Henriksen
Inge Grødum 5 views
Book chapters by Rolf Werenskjold
Hans Otto Frøland, Arne Kalland, Pål Kolstø, Rolf Fossum Werenskjold, Odd Arne Westad: Det 20. år... more Hans Otto Frøland, Arne Kalland, Pål Kolstø, Rolf Fossum Werenskjold, Odd Arne Westad: Det 20. århundres historie. Europa, USA og Japan.
Between Prague Spring and French May. Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980, 2011
Chapter in: Between Prague Spring and French May.
Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980.
Ed... more Chapter in: Between Prague Spring and French May.
Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980.
Edited by Martin Klimke, Jacco Pekelder & Joachim Scharloth
“This volume offers many new insights into the complex history of 1968 on both sides of the Iron Curtain, bringing awareness to developments in smaller countries such as Yugoslavia, Denmark, and Norway that are usually omitted in existing literature. These essays should assist scholars studying Europe in the postwar period to transcend reductionist national narratives. The seventh volume of the Protest, Culture, and Society series is another welcome contribution to a much-needed and more comprehensive view of historical and cultural change in Europe around the mystical year of 1968.” · Journal of Cold War Studies
“A wonderful work of collaborative and comparative history, truly international in scope. The authors teach at universities in nine different European nations, plus the United States and Japan. (...) The book will be of immense value to a wide range of specialists and can also be profitably read by anyone who lived through and wants to understand better the excitement, pain, trauma, and occasional triumphs of 1968, looking backward to 1960 and ahead to 1980 to place that extraordinary year in perspective.“ · David L. Schalk, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History, Emeritus Vassar College
“This volume is a very good contribution to historical studies, and for the study of transnational protest movements. Its strength derives from the variety of cases presented and from its focus on sub- or nonstate actors in a good selection of European countries.” · Memory Studies
“…[uses] a wide range of disciplines, including linguistic analysis of the transmission of protest language…The vast array of different approaches is at times dizzying, but contributes to a remarkable survey of the social reality of the period. These [essays] also confront one of the more unpleasant aspects of the movements of the era – their relationship to armed struggle...The scholars included here confront this history in all its messy and sometimes unpleasant detail. The result is a bold reappraisal of the sometimes naïve, sometimes dangerous, but always courageous confrontation of one generation with the world it was meant to inherit.” · Comparativ. Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte
“The well-footnoted chapters are based on extensive research. There is an extensive bibliography and a 25-page chronology of events in 1968.” · Choice
“Too often the protests of the 1960s are narrowly confined to the events of one year – 1968 – or to the same familiar set of countries. This welcome book offers broader vistas that includes European countries, big and small, from both sides of the Iron Curtain. In doing so, the authors allow us to transcend worn national narratives and reflect more broadly on how a whole continent was changed by the promise of global change and revolution. This book is thus an important addition for anyone seriously studying Europe in the postwar period." · James C. Kennedy, Author of Building New Babylon: The Netherlands in the 1960s, Professor of Dutch History since the Middle Ages, University of Amsterdam
Abandoning the usual Cold War–oriented narrative of postwar European protest and opposition movements, this volume offers an innovative, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive perspective on two decades of protest and social upheaval in postwar Europe. It examines the mutual influences and interactions among dissenters in Western Europe, the Warsaw Pact countries, and the nonaligned European countries, and shows how ideological and political developments in the East and West were interconnected through official state or party channels as well as a variety of private and clandestine contacts. Focusing on issues arising from the cross-cultural transfer of ideas, the adjustments to institutional and political frameworks, and the role of the media in staging protest, the volume examines the romanticized attitude of Western activists to violent liberation movements in the Third World and the idolization of imprisoned RAF members as martyrs among left-wing circles across Western Europe.
Martin Klimke is an associate professor of history at New York University Abu Dhabi.
Jacco Pekelder is Senior Lecturer at the History Department of Utrecht University and is Guest Professor “Europaicum” (2013–2014) at the University of Saarbrücken.
Joachim Scharloth is Professor of Applied Linguistics at TU Dresden, Germany
Media and Revolt. Strategies and Performances from the 1960s to the Present, 2014
Rolf Werenskjold and Erling Sivertsen studied all the photos in three major Norwegian newspapers ... more Rolf Werenskjold and Erling Sivertsen studied all the photos in three major Norwegian newspapers to examine the frames used in the coverage of protest events in 1968. Based on empirical studies, they have developed a set of frame categories that are used to analyze the framing of protest by the published photos.
The Nordic media and the Cold War, 2015
Journal articles by Rolf Werenskjold
Mediehistorisk tidsskrift, 2023
In this article, we explore how German authorities exerted pressure on Norwegian officials to inf... more In this article, we explore how German authorities exerted pressure on Norwegian officials to influence the portrayal of Germany, German leaders, and German interests in the Norwegian public sphere from the First World War until 1940. The study reveals that Norwegian authorities actively-both informally and formally-sought to control and influence content and expressions within certain segments of Nor wegian cultural life perceived as unfavorable by German authorities. This encompassed film, press, art, theater productions, and revues, as well as anti-German sentiments in general. The motives behind implementing censorship measures at various levels aimed to present Norway as neutral amid the power conflicts in Europe. The involvement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in film censorship throughout the period indicated numerous instances of acting without legal basis and in direct conflict with Norwegian film laws, which did not permit censorship for the sake of foreign powers. Nevertheless, systematic actions were taken. However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its press office showed greater resistance towards censoring the Norwegian press. Newspapers were considerably more directly protected than other aspects of cultural life. Art galleries, theaters, and revues all fell under the informal political censorship of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Ministry's press office walked a fine line between being a censoring and service entity for the Ministry while defending the freedom of the press.
Mediehistorisk Tidsskrift, 2022
Ottar Odland, the radio reporter and foreign news correspondent, 1953-1987. This article describe... more Ottar Odland, the radio reporter and foreign news correspondent, 1953-1987. This article describes the career of Ottar Odland, one of the first Norwegian foreign news correspondents that NRK sent out to establish their own network of foreign news correspondents abroad during the years from 1965 to 1970. The network was established in the most important centres along the Cold War's East-West axis
The article addresses the following questions: How newsworthy were the global unrests as phenomen... more The article addresses the following questions: How newsworthy were the global unrests as phenomena and which areas did the Norwegian press focus on? Did the global protest become a part of the Norwegian media agenda in 1968? Did the party commitments of the selected newspapers influence their reporting of protests and revolts as phenomena? Which of the Norwegian newspapers had the most extensive coverage of the protests and revolts? Furthermore, with respect to the Nordic countries: Did geographical and cultural proximity to events in Scandinavia lead to a more comprehensive coverage of these events? Based on a quantitative analysis of the total coverage of demonstrations, strikes and riots in selected Norwegian dailies in 1968, this article disputes Galtung and Ruge's classical hypothesis about geographical and cultural proximity as one of the most important news criteria.
In 1968, photographers played an important role in presenting and interpreting the many revolts a... more In 1968, photographers played an important role in presenting and interpreting the many revolts at the time. Their work constitutes an important part of the collective memory of the conflicts between demonstrators and authorities. Based on quantitative analysis of the total photographic coverage in the three largest Norwegian daily newspapers in 1968, this article discusses whether and, if so, how news photography in dailies with different political leaning framed the protest phenomenon in a particular way.
Research reports by Rolf Werenskjold
This chronology is/was the first and only comprehensive
overview of protest events in the various... more This chronology is/was the first and only comprehensive
overview of protest events in the various European countries considering both Eastern and Western Europe. The data in the chronology has been checked through a rigorous peer-review
process, during which experts on the 1968 protests in the individual countries listed checked the information.2 This chronology for the year 1968 is a revised and substantially expanded version, also comprising North-, Latin- and South America, as well as Asia and Africa. Although limited to the year 1968, it offers individual references and documentation for each event.
Edited Books by Rolf Werenskjold
In what ways have social movements attracted the attention of the mass media since the sixties? H... more In what ways have social movements attracted the attention of the mass media since the sixties? How have activists influenced public attention via visual symbols, images, and protest performances in that period? And how do mass media cover and frame specific protest issues? Drawing on contributions from media scholars, historians, and sociologists, this volume explores the dynamic interplay between social movements, activists, and mass media from the 1960s to the present. It introduces the most relevant theoretical approaches to such issues and offers a variety of case studies ranging from print media, film, and television to Internet and social media.
Kathrin Fahlenbrach is Professor for Media and Communication Studies at Hamburg University, Germany. Her publications on protest movements and media include a book on visual protest of the student movement in mass media. Together with Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth, she is editor of the series “Protest, Culture, and Society” (Berghahn Books, New York/Oxford).
Erling Sivertsen is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Media and Journalism, Volda University College, Norway. He teaches Media Studies and Photojournalism. Sivertsen is a sociologist who has published several studies on the media and politicians, media and banks, and on photography and mobile communication in journalism.
Rolf Werenskjold is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Media and Journalism, Volda University College, Norway. He teaches Media Studies and Media History. He is a historian and media scholar who has published several studies on the media and 1968, modern American history, and Norwegian foreign news journalism during the Cold War.
Series: Volume 11, Protest, Culture & Society
Edited by Henrik G. Bastiansen and Rolf Werenskjold.
The Cold War between the East and West duri... more Edited by Henrik G. Bastiansen and Rolf Werenskjold.
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.
Henrik G. Bastiansen is Professor at Faculty of Media and Journalism, Volda University College, Norway.
Rolf Werenskjold is Associate Professor at Faculty of Media and Journalism, Volda University College, Norway.
Papers by Rolf Werenskjold
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
film distributor have been presented in more detail in other publications by Blom and others. The... more film distributor have been presented in more detail in other publications by Blom and others. The multiple chronology given in Sanne Baar’s beautifully laid out timeline situates Desmet’s career in the cultural ferment of Western Europe at the start of the twentieth century, as a reminder of just how much was being invented and destroyed. If the newness of cinema is sometimes overstated in this delightful book, it is to deliver a shot of colour and joy, to bring back the wonder and strangeness of the past to our historical practice.
Berghahn Books, May 31, 2011
Norsk medietidsskrift, Oct 17, 2012
Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022
Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022
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Videos by Rolf Werenskjold
Tittel: The Cold War in Political Cartoons
Idea, research, and executive producer: Rolf Werenskjold
Producers: Rolf Werenskjold, Andres Mänd, and Dave King
Direction and animation: Anne-Lise Nemorin, Belen Ruiz Palomo, Eduardo Garcia, Julie Heugue, Pavla Michalkova, Robin Barry, and Sander Joon.
Graphic Design: Thomas Lewe
Music: Guided Missiles by THE CUFF LINKS (Alfred Gaitwood)
Dootone Records 1956
Based on the original cartoons in Aftenposten 1975-1991 by:
Kåre Bondesen
Jan O. Henriksen
Inge Grødum
Book chapters by Rolf Werenskjold
Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980.
Edited by Martin Klimke, Jacco Pekelder & Joachim Scharloth
“This volume offers many new insights into the complex history of 1968 on both sides of the Iron Curtain, bringing awareness to developments in smaller countries such as Yugoslavia, Denmark, and Norway that are usually omitted in existing literature. These essays should assist scholars studying Europe in the postwar period to transcend reductionist national narratives. The seventh volume of the Protest, Culture, and Society series is another welcome contribution to a much-needed and more comprehensive view of historical and cultural change in Europe around the mystical year of 1968.” · Journal of Cold War Studies
“A wonderful work of collaborative and comparative history, truly international in scope. The authors teach at universities in nine different European nations, plus the United States and Japan. (...) The book will be of immense value to a wide range of specialists and can also be profitably read by anyone who lived through and wants to understand better the excitement, pain, trauma, and occasional triumphs of 1968, looking backward to 1960 and ahead to 1980 to place that extraordinary year in perspective.“ · David L. Schalk, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History, Emeritus Vassar College
“This volume is a very good contribution to historical studies, and for the study of transnational protest movements. Its strength derives from the variety of cases presented and from its focus on sub- or nonstate actors in a good selection of European countries.” · Memory Studies
“…[uses] a wide range of disciplines, including linguistic analysis of the transmission of protest language…The vast array of different approaches is at times dizzying, but contributes to a remarkable survey of the social reality of the period. These [essays] also confront one of the more unpleasant aspects of the movements of the era – their relationship to armed struggle...The scholars included here confront this history in all its messy and sometimes unpleasant detail. The result is a bold reappraisal of the sometimes naïve, sometimes dangerous, but always courageous confrontation of one generation with the world it was meant to inherit.” · Comparativ. Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte
“The well-footnoted chapters are based on extensive research. There is an extensive bibliography and a 25-page chronology of events in 1968.” · Choice
“Too often the protests of the 1960s are narrowly confined to the events of one year – 1968 – or to the same familiar set of countries. This welcome book offers broader vistas that includes European countries, big and small, from both sides of the Iron Curtain. In doing so, the authors allow us to transcend worn national narratives and reflect more broadly on how a whole continent was changed by the promise of global change and revolution. This book is thus an important addition for anyone seriously studying Europe in the postwar period." · James C. Kennedy, Author of Building New Babylon: The Netherlands in the 1960s, Professor of Dutch History since the Middle Ages, University of Amsterdam
Abandoning the usual Cold War–oriented narrative of postwar European protest and opposition movements, this volume offers an innovative, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive perspective on two decades of protest and social upheaval in postwar Europe. It examines the mutual influences and interactions among dissenters in Western Europe, the Warsaw Pact countries, and the nonaligned European countries, and shows how ideological and political developments in the East and West were interconnected through official state or party channels as well as a variety of private and clandestine contacts. Focusing on issues arising from the cross-cultural transfer of ideas, the adjustments to institutional and political frameworks, and the role of the media in staging protest, the volume examines the romanticized attitude of Western activists to violent liberation movements in the Third World and the idolization of imprisoned RAF members as martyrs among left-wing circles across Western Europe.
Martin Klimke is an associate professor of history at New York University Abu Dhabi.
Jacco Pekelder is Senior Lecturer at the History Department of Utrecht University and is Guest Professor “Europaicum” (2013–2014) at the University of Saarbrücken.
Joachim Scharloth is Professor of Applied Linguistics at TU Dresden, Germany
Journal articles by Rolf Werenskjold
Research reports by Rolf Werenskjold
overview of protest events in the various European countries considering both Eastern and Western Europe. The data in the chronology has been checked through a rigorous peer-review
process, during which experts on the 1968 protests in the individual countries listed checked the information.2 This chronology for the year 1968 is a revised and substantially expanded version, also comprising North-, Latin- and South America, as well as Asia and Africa. Although limited to the year 1968, it offers individual references and documentation for each event.
Edited Books by Rolf Werenskjold
Kathrin Fahlenbrach is Professor for Media and Communication Studies at Hamburg University, Germany. Her publications on protest movements and media include a book on visual protest of the student movement in mass media. Together with Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth, she is editor of the series “Protest, Culture, and Society” (Berghahn Books, New York/Oxford).
Erling Sivertsen is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Media and Journalism, Volda University College, Norway. He teaches Media Studies and Photojournalism. Sivertsen is a sociologist who has published several studies on the media and politicians, media and banks, and on photography and mobile communication in journalism.
Rolf Werenskjold is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Media and Journalism, Volda University College, Norway. He teaches Media Studies and Media History. He is a historian and media scholar who has published several studies on the media and 1968, modern American history, and Norwegian foreign news journalism during the Cold War.
Series: Volume 11, Protest, Culture & Society
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.
Henrik G. Bastiansen is Professor at Faculty of Media and Journalism, Volda University College, Norway.
Rolf Werenskjold is Associate Professor at Faculty of Media and Journalism, Volda University College, Norway.
Papers by Rolf Werenskjold
Tittel: The Cold War in Political Cartoons
Idea, research, and executive producer: Rolf Werenskjold
Producers: Rolf Werenskjold, Andres Mänd, and Dave King
Direction and animation: Anne-Lise Nemorin, Belen Ruiz Palomo, Eduardo Garcia, Julie Heugue, Pavla Michalkova, Robin Barry, and Sander Joon.
Graphic Design: Thomas Lewe
Music: Guided Missiles by THE CUFF LINKS (Alfred Gaitwood)
Dootone Records 1956
Based on the original cartoons in Aftenposten 1975-1991 by:
Kåre Bondesen
Jan O. Henriksen
Inge Grødum
Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980.
Edited by Martin Klimke, Jacco Pekelder & Joachim Scharloth
“This volume offers many new insights into the complex history of 1968 on both sides of the Iron Curtain, bringing awareness to developments in smaller countries such as Yugoslavia, Denmark, and Norway that are usually omitted in existing literature. These essays should assist scholars studying Europe in the postwar period to transcend reductionist national narratives. The seventh volume of the Protest, Culture, and Society series is another welcome contribution to a much-needed and more comprehensive view of historical and cultural change in Europe around the mystical year of 1968.” · Journal of Cold War Studies
“A wonderful work of collaborative and comparative history, truly international in scope. The authors teach at universities in nine different European nations, plus the United States and Japan. (...) The book will be of immense value to a wide range of specialists and can also be profitably read by anyone who lived through and wants to understand better the excitement, pain, trauma, and occasional triumphs of 1968, looking backward to 1960 and ahead to 1980 to place that extraordinary year in perspective.“ · David L. Schalk, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History, Emeritus Vassar College
“This volume is a very good contribution to historical studies, and for the study of transnational protest movements. Its strength derives from the variety of cases presented and from its focus on sub- or nonstate actors in a good selection of European countries.” · Memory Studies
“…[uses] a wide range of disciplines, including linguistic analysis of the transmission of protest language…The vast array of different approaches is at times dizzying, but contributes to a remarkable survey of the social reality of the period. These [essays] also confront one of the more unpleasant aspects of the movements of the era – their relationship to armed struggle...The scholars included here confront this history in all its messy and sometimes unpleasant detail. The result is a bold reappraisal of the sometimes naïve, sometimes dangerous, but always courageous confrontation of one generation with the world it was meant to inherit.” · Comparativ. Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte
“The well-footnoted chapters are based on extensive research. There is an extensive bibliography and a 25-page chronology of events in 1968.” · Choice
“Too often the protests of the 1960s are narrowly confined to the events of one year – 1968 – or to the same familiar set of countries. This welcome book offers broader vistas that includes European countries, big and small, from both sides of the Iron Curtain. In doing so, the authors allow us to transcend worn national narratives and reflect more broadly on how a whole continent was changed by the promise of global change and revolution. This book is thus an important addition for anyone seriously studying Europe in the postwar period." · James C. Kennedy, Author of Building New Babylon: The Netherlands in the 1960s, Professor of Dutch History since the Middle Ages, University of Amsterdam
Abandoning the usual Cold War–oriented narrative of postwar European protest and opposition movements, this volume offers an innovative, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive perspective on two decades of protest and social upheaval in postwar Europe. It examines the mutual influences and interactions among dissenters in Western Europe, the Warsaw Pact countries, and the nonaligned European countries, and shows how ideological and political developments in the East and West were interconnected through official state or party channels as well as a variety of private and clandestine contacts. Focusing on issues arising from the cross-cultural transfer of ideas, the adjustments to institutional and political frameworks, and the role of the media in staging protest, the volume examines the romanticized attitude of Western activists to violent liberation movements in the Third World and the idolization of imprisoned RAF members as martyrs among left-wing circles across Western Europe.
Martin Klimke is an associate professor of history at New York University Abu Dhabi.
Jacco Pekelder is Senior Lecturer at the History Department of Utrecht University and is Guest Professor “Europaicum” (2013–2014) at the University of Saarbrücken.
Joachim Scharloth is Professor of Applied Linguistics at TU Dresden, Germany
overview of protest events in the various European countries considering both Eastern and Western Europe. The data in the chronology has been checked through a rigorous peer-review
process, during which experts on the 1968 protests in the individual countries listed checked the information.2 This chronology for the year 1968 is a revised and substantially expanded version, also comprising North-, Latin- and South America, as well as Asia and Africa. Although limited to the year 1968, it offers individual references and documentation for each event.
Kathrin Fahlenbrach is Professor for Media and Communication Studies at Hamburg University, Germany. Her publications on protest movements and media include a book on visual protest of the student movement in mass media. Together with Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth, she is editor of the series “Protest, Culture, and Society” (Berghahn Books, New York/Oxford).
Erling Sivertsen is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Media and Journalism, Volda University College, Norway. He teaches Media Studies and Photojournalism. Sivertsen is a sociologist who has published several studies on the media and politicians, media and banks, and on photography and mobile communication in journalism.
Rolf Werenskjold is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Media and Journalism, Volda University College, Norway. He teaches Media Studies and Media History. He is a historian and media scholar who has published several studies on the media and 1968, modern American history, and Norwegian foreign news journalism during the Cold War.
Series: Volume 11, Protest, Culture & Society
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.
Henrik G. Bastiansen is Professor at Faculty of Media and Journalism, Volda University College, Norway.
Rolf Werenskjold is Associate Professor at Faculty of Media and Journalism, Volda University College, Norway.