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.