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1	The Bridge : Nordic Noir Breaking Borders and Language Barriers with the British Television Audience Hughes, Daniel Vaughan January 2012 (has links) The international success of crime stories from the Nordic countries has made its transition from the literature market to television. In the United Kingdom, these programmes have received many viewers, and much press attention. This thesis will look at ratings leader The Bridge, to look into the reasons why a programme in Danish and Swedish has managed to attract almost two million viewers weekly in a television market usually resistant to non-English language programmes. Using a combination of a close textual analysis of The Bridge, along with qualitative respondent interviews with audiences members, this thesis has found that perceived realism, strong characterisation, and realistic female characters, are what the audience enjoy about The Bridge. The programme engages with production techniques which the audience are very familiar with, meaning that while the language the characters speak is foreign, the way the narrative, and action is communicated is not. The findings bring new discussions about Nordic Noir, where previous criticism has centred on the scenery, social discourses and the exoticism of the Danish and Swedish languages as explanations for the British popularity. The Bridge Nordic Noir British Audiences Audiences Interviews Scandi-Noir Quality TV
2	Zobrazení severského státu blahobytu v žánru nordic noir: případ Dánska / The depiction of Nordic model of welfare state in nordic noir: the case of Denmark Michalková, Dominika January 2019 (has links) Nordic noir is a distinctive component of the current Nordic cultural export, which has become increasingly popular in recent years not only in Europe. One of the main characteristics of this genre is the description of tensions between the seemingly insignificant and peaceful social climate in the Nordic environment and the murders, racism, inequality and other malfunctioning mechanisms that occur beneath the surface. This creates an ideal spare for criticizing the welfare state. Denmark, as a representative of its Scandinavian model, is also one of the countries where nordic noir has spread very quickly. Therefore, this master thesis will be devoted to analyzing the criticism of the welfare state in the Danish series The Killing in order to demonstrate socio-critical tendencies in the aforementioned genre. It will further examine how they are approached and what specific aspects are subjected to criticism. The work aims to contribute to the current debate by presenting specific examples based on a detailed analysis of the selected case.
3	Obraz a proměny společenské kritiky ve vybraných dílech švédské detektivky / The image and transformation of social critique in selected works of Swedish Crime Fiction Všetečková, Andrea January 2020 (has links) (in English): The thesis deals with the topic of social criticism across the genre of detective stories from the 1960s in Sweden. The theoretical part describes how social criticism is constituted in this genre and how it contributes to its specificity. Based on a selected cross-section of five works, it presents not only the various topics which these authors work with, but also the changes in this critique over time. The analyzed works are: The Man on the Balcony (1968) by Sjöwall and Wahlöö, who establish this genre with clear social criticism, the first part of the trilogy Millennium The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2008) by Stieg Larsson, who, according to many experts, successfully completes this era, The Stone Cutter (2008) by Camilla Läckberg, The Sandman (2012) by Lars Kepler and Those Who Failed (2015) by the duo Hjorth and Rosenfeldt, that is the works by three contemporary authors of this genre.
4	Projecting Culture Through Literary Exportation: How Imitation in Scandinavian Crime Fiction Reveals Regional Mores Hartsell, Bradley 01 December 2017 (has links) (PDF) This thesis reexamines the beginnings of Swedish hardboiled crime literature, in part tracking its lineage to American culture and unpacking Swedish identity. Following the introduction, the second chapter asserts how this genre began as a form of escapism, specifically in Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö’s Roseanna. The third chapter compares predecessor Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep with Roseanna, and how Sweden’s greater gender tolerance significantly outshining America’s is reflected in literature. The fourth chapter examines how Henning Mankell’s novels fail to fully accept Sweden’s complicity in neo-Nazism as an active component of Swedish identity. The final chapter reveals Helene Tursten’s Detective Inspector Huss engaging with gender and racial relations in unique ways, while also releasing the suppressive qualities found in the Swedish identity post-war. Therefore, this thesis will better contextualize the onset of the genre, and how its lineage reflects the fruits and the damages alike in the Swedish identity. Nordic Noir Swedish identity Henning Mankell Helene Tursten Maj Sjöwall Per Wahlöö Scandinavian crime fiction Ed McBain Raymond Chandler Nazism gender forward European Languages and Societies Literature in English, North America Modern Literature Other English Language and Literature Scandinavian Studies

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