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Mari Pajala

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

view journal of european television history and culture

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2213-0969

DOI - 10.18146/2213-0969.2012.jethc013

Subject(s) - contest , symbol (formal) , representation (politics) , politics , period (music) , western europe , key (lock) , cartography , political science , history , geography , economy , european union , art , aesthetics , computer science , law , computer security , economics , economic policy , business , programming language

The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) offers a unique viewpoint to the waysEurope has been imagined on television from the 1950s to the present. Thispaper looks at the use of a key visual symbol for Europe, the European map,to outline the history of the ESC’s representation of Europe. Whilst theEuropean map was rarely used during the rst decades of the ESC, it became acentral visual element of the show in the 1990s, a period of great politicalchange in Europe. Since then, the ESC maps have pictured an ever wideningimage of Europe, gradually moving towards a dynamic, moving image of Europeand nally, dispensing with a coherent map of Europe altogether.

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