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Locating Nordic Noir

From Beck to The Bridge

Kim Toft Hansen author Anne Marit Waade author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:27th Oct '17

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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.

“An important resource for scholars in multiple disciplines, the book brings together in one place a great deal of important information. … The primary audience is those interested in television and film production: the book provides data and firsthand accounts and synthesizes that information into a persuasive narrative of development and forecast.” (Rosemary Erickson Johnsen, Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 91 (3), 2019)

ISBN: 9783319598147

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 5207g

313 pages

1st ed. 2017