Trashing The Prime Minister's Bride: Public Dismay and Intertextual Media.
In 2006–2007, the romantic affair between Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen and white-collar worker Susan Kuronen received unprecedented attention in the national media. Analyzing the coverage of the affair and its aftermath in Finnish evening papers through Sara Ahmed's notion of affective circ...
| Publicado en: | Critical Studies in Media Communication Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 174 - 193 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2010
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