![]() “How did a crime scene as distinctive as Scandinavia take such a decisive role in the global community of mystery and suspense fiction, infecting the whole world with its chilly mystique? This volume raises many fruitful questions concerning Nordic Noir as a network, brand, or family its repurposing of distinctively American crime formulas its systematic mingling of local and universal elements its use as a vehicle to spotlight a relatively neglected native culture its affinities with the Western the relation of its remakes to robots who resemble their human models closely but not too closely the importation of its leading stylistic devices by films and television programs produced in other countries and its influence on Viking revival cinema and television. Nordic Noir, Adaptation, Appropriation redefines the debates and deserves the broadest possible readership.” (Mette Hjort, Hong Kong Baptist University) The volume’s rich interventions show us that Nordic noir, far from being a static genre, is a constantly evolving cultural form, with a mobility within and beyond the North due to diverse processes of adaptation and appropriation. “Ingenious in its conception and with consistently strong original contributions, Nordic Noir, Adaptation, Appropriation re-visits the Nordic noir phenomenon to probe previously unexplored complexities.
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