Television and Geopolitics: A Conversation on the Nordics

Knowledge on the Nordics

The interplay between popular culture and the ’real’ world is an interesting one: Can cultural products really have an effect on geopolitics? And can geopolitical actors learn from them? Robert Saunders thinks so. He is Professor in the Department of History, Politics and Geography the State University of New York and is interviewed by editor of nordics.info Nicola Witcombe. Find out more about how TV can be a tool in explaining geopolitics and historical events; and, how it is experimental ground for imagining how to deal with the uncertainty of future events, including relationships between countries and regions – and pandemics!
Sound credits: freesound.org e.g. bigmanjoe (Suspenceful Creepy Music.wav).

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Kapitel

1. Television and Geopolitics: A Conversation on the Nordics (00:00:00)

2. Popular culture reflects creators and consumers (00:03:32)

3. Norwegian series 'Occupied' (00:04:25)

4. Predictive quality of TV (00:08:09)

5. Popular culture affecting the real world (00:15:40)

6. Hasn’t Nordic noir already had its hayday? (00:21:48)

7. Why is the anglophone world interested in Nordic noir & the Nordic countries? (00:24:34)

8. Nordic public broadcasting vs commercial corporations (00:28:52)

9. What do most Americans think of the Nordics? (00:34:47)