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1981
Volume 13, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2042-7891
  • E-ISSN: 2042-7905

Abstract

Schlager shows were one of the main attractions on early Finnish television. Featuring a popular music genre, the shows were soon followed by a wave of Schlager films. In this article, I discuss Schlager film as an intermedial genre that sheds light on the early forms of cooperation between television, film and record industries. Focusing on the Schlager film (1959), I suggest that while television was often seen merely as a competitor of the film industry, contributing to the crisis of Finnish film production, the relation between the two was more ambiguous than that: the case of indicates that the film industry was also interested in the potential provided by the new medium.

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This study was supported by the:
  • The Finnish Cultural Foundation (Award 00210618)
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