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• In Media Res
  Re: Amateur?

  I think the fact that most

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  Mari Pajala University of Turku (Finland)

  Friday, November 9, 2007 — 1:03 pm

  I think the fact that most of the pieces this week thematise national identity in relation to the global is at least in part because of the need to make the contributions understandable in an international context. Thus we seem to have chosen examples tha ...
• In Media Res
  Re: What is so comical about old choreography?

  Really interesting points

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  Mari Pajala University of Turku (Finland)

  Tuesday, November 13, 2007 — 3:55 pm

  Really interesting points about the “double nostalgia” at work in this performance and about the Grease connection. The car at the end definitely looks like an allusion to Grease. The English version of this song was released in 1978, and the license plat ...
• In Media Res
  Re: ”I Miss my superfast broadband!” Comical heroes in phone operator’s TV commercial

  Interesting piece, Sari. I

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  Mari Pajala University of Turku (Finland)

  Wednesday, November 7, 2007 — 3:25 pm

  Interesting piece, Sari. I have to admit I hadn’t paid attention to the fact that the two characters in the series of advertisements only interact with other men. It looks like men are still seen as more suited to represent “ordinary Finnishness” (and oth ...
• In Media Res
  Re: ABBA 1974: The Birth of Swedish Modernity?

  Seen from Sweden’s eastern

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  Mari Pajala University of Turku (Finland)

  Wednesday, November 7, 2007 — 2:49 pm

  Seen from Sweden’s eastern neighbouring country Finland, ABBA’s victory at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest certainly began to change opinions concerning the status of the various Nordic countries in the field of popular culture. Sweden has long been the ...