Special Issue on Geopolitics and Nordic Noir
Robert A. Saunders, 2019 IUR Visiting Scholar, has co-edited a Nordicom Review Special Issue titled “Dark Screens: The geopolitics of Nordic television drama” with Pei-Sze Chow and Anne Marit Waade.
Table of Contents
- Pei-Sze Chow, Robert A. Saunders & Anne Marit Waade. Introduction: Dark Screens: The geopolitics of Nordic television drama
- Pei-Sze Chow, Anne Marit Waade & Robert A. Saunders. Geopolitical Television Drama Within and Beyond the Nordic Region
- Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen. Wallander’s Dark Geopolitics
- Klaus Dodds & Tobias Hochscherf. The Geopolitics of Nordic Noir: Representations of current threats and vigilantes in contemporary Danish and Norwegian serial drama
- Robert A. Saunders. Landscape, Geopolitics, and National Identity in the Norwegian thrillers Occupied and Nobel
- Anna Estera Mrozewicz. The Landscapes of Eco-Noir: Reimagining Norwegian eco-exceptionalism in Occupied
- Irina Souch. Transformations of the Evil Forest in the Swedish Television Series Jordskott: An ecocritical reading
- Kim Toft Hansen. Nordic Noir from Within and Beyond: Negotiating geopolitical regionalisation through SVoD crime narratives
- Saara Ratilainen. Norway Reimagined: Popular geopolitics and the Russophone fans of Skam
Watch Professor Saunders’ lecture in Malmö last December.
Listen to Professor Saunders’ interview in Swedish Radio (only in Swedish).
