Locating Nordic Noir: From Beck to The Bridge (Palgrave European Film and Media Studies)

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-ix Introduction: Where Is Nordic Noir? (Kim Toft Hansen, Anne Marit Waade)....Pages 1-23 Front Matter ....Pages 25-25 Local Colour and Places on Screen (Kim Toft Hansen, Anne Marit Waade)....Pages 27-51 Location Studies: A Topography of Nordic Noir (Kim Toft Hansen, Anne Marit Waade)....Pages 53-76 Four Perspectives on the Nordic Region (Kim Toft Hansen, Anne Marit Waade)....Pages 77-101 Front Matter ....Pages 103-103 Stieg Larsson and Scandinavian Crime Literature as a Stepping Stone (Kim Toft Hansen, Anne Marit Waade)....Pages 105-125 Beck and Character Adaptations (Kim Toft Hansen, Anne Marit Waade)....Pages 127-144 Funding Models and Increasing Transnationalism (Kim Toft Hansen, Anne Marit Waade)....Pages 145-159 Front Matter ....Pages 161-161 The Killing and DR’s Danish Model (Kim Toft Hansen, Anne Marit Waade)....Pages 163-185 Norskov and Danish Commercial Public Service Drama (Kim Toft Hansen, Anne Marit Waade)....Pages 187-206 The Team, Danish Transnationalism and the Local Colour of Europe (Kim Toft Hansen, Anne Marit Waade)....Pages 207-225 Front Matter ....Pages 227-227 Blue Eyes and the Rise of the Swedish Original (Kim Toft Hansen, Anne Marit Waade)....Pages 229-245 Trapped and Original Noir from Iceland and Norway (Kim Toft Hansen, Anne Marit Waade)....Pages 247-267 The Bridge, Transnational Co-productions and Screen Tourism (Kim Toft Hansen, Anne Marit Waade)....Pages 269-289 Conclusion: Nordic Noir Beyond the Nordic (Kim Toft Hansen, Anne Marit Waade)....Pages 291-306 Back Matter ....Pages 307-313