Beyond The Bridge
eBook - PDF

Beyond The Bridge

Contemporary Danish Television Drama

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Beyond The Bridge

Contemporary Danish Television Drama

About this book

Drawing worldwide acclaim from critics and audiences alike, programmes like The Killing, Borgen, The Bridge and The Legacy demonstrate widespread fascination with Danish style, aesthetics and culture as seen through television narratives. This book uses familiar, alongside lesser known, case studies of drama series to demonstrate how the particular features of Danish production - from work cultures, to storytelling techniques and trans-national cooperation - have enhanced contemporary Danish drama's appeal both at home and abroad. The era of globalisation has blurred national and international television cultures and promoted regular cross-fertilisation between film and television industries. Important questions have emerged from this context surrounding, for example, the 'Americanisation' of foreign television formats, the meaning and practice behind the term 'quality television', and the purpose and efficacy of public service broadcasting. Beyond the Bridge tackles these issues in relation to Danish television, by examining the so-called 'scaffolded production processes' behind the making of quality serials and their thought-provoking content.
Drawing on popular motifs from these celebrated dramas such as foreign politics, organised crime, global warming, and the impact of multinational corporations, this timely book provides crucial insight into the Danish dramas at the forefront of sophisticated, forward-thinking, fictional television.

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Yes, you can access Beyond The Bridge by Tobias Hochscherf,Heidi Philipsen in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medios de comunicación y artes escénicas & Historia y crítica de la televisión. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Table of contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 The Danish Audio-visual Media Landscape: From Dogma 95 to Transnational...
  11. 2 Danish Production Culture and Creativity Management through ‘Scaffolding’
  12. 3 Does Crime Pay? Forbrydelsen (The Killing) and the Thriving of Nordic Noir
  13. 4 Crime across Borders: Broen (The Bridge)
  14. 5 Politics, Family Life and the Media: Borgen
  15. 6 Family Noir: Arvingerne (The Legacy)
  16. 7 The Danish Take on National Security and the War on Terror: Ørnen...
  17. Conclusions: From Dogmas to Nordic Noir and Beyond
  18. Notes
  19. Select Bibliography
  20. Index