Taking the National Family to the Movies: Changing Frameworks for the Formation of Danish Identity, 1930-1990

Pg 18 – “Benedict Anderson (1983) has pointed out the crucial role “print-capitalism” – the production and distribution of newspapers and novels – has played in an initial phase of the development of imagined communities.”

~ What’s an “imagined community” is it like an “imagined culture”? Or is it just a like a fan-fiction community? And, really, you can learn a lot of development of culture (and, in turn, identity) from the development of communities.

Pg 31 – “Narratives provide frameworks for understandings of everyday life and identity.”

~ Having stories, case studies, and other narratives help the understanding of things of identity.

Linde-Laursen, A. (1999). Taking the National Family to the Movies: Changing Frameworks for the Formation of Danish Identity, 1930-1990. Anthropological Quarterly, 72(1). Retrieved November 9, 2008, from JSTOR database.