%0 Journal Article
%T Mapping Europe: Images of Europe in the Eurovision Song Contest
%A Mari Pajala
%J View : Journal of European Television History and Culture
%D 2012
%I Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
%X The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) offers a unique viewpoint to the ways Europe has been imagined on television from the 1950s to the present. This paper 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 the European map was rarely used during the  rst decades of the ESC, it became a central visual element of the show in the 1990s, a period of great political change in Europe. Since then, the ESC maps have pictured an ever widening image of Europe, gradually moving towards a dynamic, moving image of Europe and  nally, dispensing with a coherent map of Europe altogether.
%K Eurovision Song Contest
%K European Broadcasting Union
%K Europe
%K maps
%K television history
%U http://rdbg.tuxic.nl/euscreen-ojs/index.php/view/article/view/12