"Svenskhetens propaganda" - Föreställningar kring svensk nationell identitet i SF-journalen 1935-1945

Sammanfattning: The essay is an effort to distinguish and highlight the re-/production of an imagined national identity in Swedish newsreel, known as the SF-journal, through the years 1935-1945. Furthermore the essay will also highlight the re-/production of a gender based national identity and the re-/production of ‘the other’. The material was gathered from the SF-journals digitalised library at ÖppetArkiv.se, then analysed using the textual dimension of Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis. The theoretical approach contains, amongst others, Benedict Anderson’s theory regarding the nation as an imagined community, Yvonne Hirdman’s theory concerning the existence of a gender contract and Stuart Halls the preferred meaning. An imagined national identity based on modernity, duty, healthism and the symbiosis between citizen and nature is a reoccurring theme, where modernism is the dividing factor between the imagined identity of Swedish men and women, and where stereotypical and belittling productions of ‘the other’ is a repeated occurrence.