Locating Nordic Noir
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Locating Nordic Noir

From Beck to The Bridge

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eBook - PDF

Locating Nordic Noir

From Beck to The Bridge

About this book

This book is a comprehensive study of Nordic Noir television drama from the 1990's until today. The authors introduce the history of contemporary Nordic Noir from the perspective of place, production and location studies. The chapters include readings of well-known television crime dramas such as Beck, The Killing, Trapped and The Bridge as well as a range of other important Nordic Noir cases. The authors position the development of Nordic Noir in the global market for popular television drama and place the international attention towards Nordic crime dramas within regional development of drama production in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland. Consequently, Nordic Noir is read as both a transnational financial and creative phenomenon and as a local possibility for community building. Offering a comprehensible, scholarly and methodologically original approach to the popularity of Nordic television crime dramas, this volume is aimed at readers with an in terest in crime drama as well as scholars and students of television drama.

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. Chapter 1 Introduction: Where Is Nordic Noir?
  5. Part I Local Colour and Location Studies
  6. Chapter 2 Local Colour and Places on Screen
  7. Chapter 3 Location Studies: A Topography of Nordic Noir
  8. Chapter 4 Four Perspectives on the Nordic Region
  9. Part II From Bestsellers to Blockbusters
  10. Chapter 5 Stieg Larsson and Scandinavian Crime Literature as a Stepping Stone
  11. Chapter 6 Beck and Character Adaptations
  12. Chapter 7 Funding Models and Increasing Transnationalism
  13. Part III Written for the Danish Screen
  14. Chapter 8 The Killing and DR’s Danish Model
  15. Chapter 9 Norskov and Danish Commercial Public Service Drama
  16. Chapter 10 The Team, Danish Transnationalism and the Local Colour of Europe
  17. Part IV Written for the Nordic Screen
  18. Chapter 11 Blue Eyes and the Rise of the Swedish Original
  19. Chapter 12 Trapped and Original Noir from Iceland and Norway
  20. Chapter 13 The Bridge, Transnational Co-productions and Screen Tourism
  21. Chapter 14 Conclusion: Nordic Noir Beyond the Nordic
  22. Index