Foreign Influences on Nordic (Noir) Borderlands

• Published in: European Journal of Scandinavian Studies
• Main Author: Marklund, Anders
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: De Gruyter 2019
• Subjects: Studies on Film; television; nordic noir; borders; globalization; Crime Film & TV; Iceland
• Online Access: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/3fb3f56a-ae19-4a7b-8a84-7250ed1953b0; https://doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2019-0011

This article analyses the three recent Nordic Noir television series Bordertown (Sorjonen) from Finland, Trapped (Ófæro), from Iceland, and the Danish- Swedish The Bridge (Broen/Bron). All series are located on national borderlands, and this article aims to discern the significance of using such borderland settings. Departing from Doreen Massey's emphasis on places as being inherently interlinked with other places, the article characterises the various ways foreign influences are represented and narrativised in these three series.