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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255075603321

Autore

Toft Hansen Kim

Titolo

Locating Nordic Noir : From Beck to The Bridge / / by Kim Toft Hansen, Anne Marit Waade

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-59815-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 313 p. 8 illus., 6 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave European Film and Media Studies, , 2634-615X

Disciplina

791.4

Soggetti

Motion pictures and television

Ethnology—Europe

Communication

Popular Culture

Human geography

Screen Studies

European Culture

Media and Communication

Human Geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Where is Nordic Noir? -- 2. Part I: Local colour and location studies - Local colour and places on screen -- 3. Location studies: a topography of Nordic noir -- 4. Four perspectives on the Nordic region -- 5. Part II: From bestsellers to blockbusters - Stieg Larsson and Scandinavian crime literature as a stepping stone -- 6. Beck and character adaptations -- 7. Funding models and increasing transnationalism -- 8. Part III: Written for the Danish screen - The Killing and DR’s Danish model -- 9. Norskov and Danish commercial public service drama -- 10. The Team, Danish transnationalism and the local colour of Europe -- 11. Part IV: Written for the Nordic screen - Blue Eyes and the rise of the Swedish original -- 12. Trapped and original Noir from Iceland and Norway -- 13. The Bridge, transnational co-productions and screen tourism -- 14. Con clusion: Nordic Noir



beyond the Nordic. .

Sommario/riassunto

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 interest in crime drama as well as scholars and students of television drama.