图书简介
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.
1. Introduction: Where is Nordic Noir?.- 2.燩art I: Local colour and location studies - Local colour and places on screen.- 3.燣ocation studies: a topography of Nordic noir.- 4.燜our perspectives on the Nordic region.- 5.燩art II: From bestsellers to blockbusters -燬tieg Larsson and Scandinavian crime literature as a stepping stone.- 6.燘eck and character adaptations.- 7.燜unding models and increasing transnationalism.- 8.燩art III: Written for the Danish screen ?燭he Killing and DR?s Danish model.- 9.燦orskov and Danish commercial public service drama.- 10.燭he Team, Danish transnationalism and the local colour of Europe.- 11.燩art IV: Written for the Nordic screen -燘lue Eyes and the rise of the Swedish original.- 12.燭rapped and original Noir from Iceland and Norway.- 13.燭he Bridge, transnational co-productions and screen tourism.- 14.燙on
clusion: Nordic Noir beyond the Nordic.燑div>