The Scandinavian Invasion: Nordic Noir and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9781788740494 / Angielski

Richard McCulloch; William Proctor

Opis

Why is Nordic Noir so popular? The story of its success owes much to its adaptation and evolution. This collection of original essays examines the phenomenon and the cultural, aesthetic and industrial forces that propelled it across borders.

Spis treści

Content: Foreign Currency? Branding and Rebranding Nordic Noir Television in the UK - Claiming Jurisdiction: Bron|Broen, Trading TV Fictions and the Geopolitics of Producing Value across Borders - Bron|Broen: The Pilot as Space between Cultures and (Re)negotiations of Nordic Noir - Shadows under the Sun: Situating Nordic Noir within an Australian Audiovisual Landscape - Far Away, So Close: Sydney- Siders Watching Forbrydelsen, Borgen and Bron|Broen - An Autoethnography of Nordic Noir, or When the 'Knowing Audience' Doesn't Know - Utopian Noir: Borgen Viewed in Denmark and the UK - Investigating the Silent Other: Negotiating Difference and Its Absence in Contemporary Scandinavian Crime Fiction - The Second Wave of Nordic Noir: New Names in the Development of the Genre - Deserted Parks and Empty Swings: Remaking the Disappearing Child in Nordic Crime and Horror - Building Snowmen: Frozen and/ as Nordic Noir - From the Inside Out: Collective Perspectives on the Sensation of SKAM.

O autorze

Richard McCulloch is Senior Lecturer in Media and Film at the Centre for Participatory Culture, University of Huddersfield.

William Proctor is Associate Professor in Popular Culture at Bournemouth University.