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"This is the first monograph on Scandinavia's 'new typography'. It provides a detailed account of the movement's lifespan in the region from the 1920s up until the 1940s, when it was largely incorporated into mainstream practice. The book begins by tracing how new typography, from its origins in the central and eastern European avant-garde, arrived in Scandinavia. It considers the movement's transformative impact on printing, detailing the cultural and technological reasons why its ability to act as a modernising force varied between different professional groups. The last two chapters look at how New Typography related to Scandinavian society more widely by looking at its ties to functionalism and social democracy, paving the way for a discussion of the reciprocal relationship between the culture of practitioners and the cultural work performed through their practice. Based on archival research undertaken at a number of Scandinavian institutions, the book brings a wealth of previously unpublished visual material to light and provides a fresh perspective on a movement of central and enduring importance to graphic design history and practice." -- Publisher's description.

Printing --- Scandinavia.

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'Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere' introduces a new concept to Nordic film studies as well as to other small national, transnational and world cinema traditions. Examining overlooked 'elsewheres', the book presents Nordic cinemas as international, cosmopolitan, diasporic and geographically dispersed, from their beginnings in the early silent period to their present 21st-century dynamics.

Motion pictures --- History. --- Scandinavia.

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'Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere' introduces a new concept to Nordic film studies as well as to other small national, transnational and world cinema traditions. Examining overlooked 'elsewheres', the book presents Nordic cinemas as international, cosmopolitan, diasporic and geographically dispersed, from their beginnings in the early silent period to their present 21st-century dynamics.

Motion pictures --- History. --- Scandinavia.

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La France et les Français entretiennent avec les pays scandinaves un rapport ambigu, fait de fascination et de méfiance mêlées. L'engouement pour de nombreux aspects du fameux « modèle nordique » est ainsi souvent contrebalancé par le constat d'une impossibilité de transfert et l'idée que « ça ne marcherait pas chez nous ».Des innovations, mollement appelées « bonnes pratiques », ont pourtant fini par pénétrer les territoires hexagonaux, mais le fantasme nordique (notamment visible avec le phénomène du hygge) permet surtout d'interroger nos propres aspirations, nos manques, notre incapacité au bonheur…Architecture épurée, école plus inclusive, bien-être au travail… Dans cet essai lucide mais enthousiaste, Nicolas Escach, persuadé que certaines initiatives nordiques sont conciliables avec nos habitudes et mentalités, nous fait rencontrer celles et ceux qui s'essaient à cette hybridité.Et si le franco-nordique était une solution aux défis environnementaux et sociétaux auxquels nous sommes confrontés ?Nicolas Escach est directeur du campus de Caen de Sciences Po Rennes et maître de conférences en géographie et urbanisme. Formé à l'ENS de Lyon, docteur et agrégé, il s'est spécialisé dans l'étude des villes baltiques et nordiques. Il collabore régulièrement au Monde diplomatique et au Monde, et est l'auteur de l'essai Les Danois. Corédacteur en chef de la revue Nordiques, il a fondé l'association Confluences nordiques.

Lifestyles --- Nordic model. --- France --- Scandinavia

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The terms 'Nordic' and 'Scandinavian' are widely used to refer to the politics, society and culture of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. But why have people felt the need to frame things as Nordic and why has the adjective Nordic become so prominent? This book adopts a rhetorical approach, analysing the speech acts which have shaped the meanings of the term. What do the different terms Nordic and Scandinavian have in common, and how have the uses of these terms changed in different historical periods? What accounts for the apparent upsurge in uses of the rhetoric of Nordicness in the 2010s? Drawing on eight case studies of the uses of Nordic and Scandinavian from the nineteenth century to the present day, the book explores the appeal and the flexibility of the rhetoric of Nordicness, in relation to race, openness, gender equality, food, crime fiction, Nordic co-operation and the Nordic model. Arguing that 'Nordic' and 'Scandinavian' are flexible and contested concepts that have been used in different, often contradictory and inherently political ways, the book suggests that the usage of the term has evolved from a means of creating a cultural community, to forging political co-operation and further to marketing models in politics and popular culture. The rhetorical approach also shows how many of the hallmarks of Nordic political culture, such as the Nordic model, Nordic gender equality or Nordic openness are more recent conceptualisations than usually assumed. As such, the book argues for the need to turn attention away from analysing the different components of Nordicness into studying how, when, and for what purpose different features were made Nordic.

Scandinavia --- Civilization. --- History. --- Intellectual life.