Nordic noir is a genre of crime fiction that is written in a realistic point of view go the police force that also represents Nordic or Scandinavian countries. The l language is deliberately monotone and is set in bleak landscapes with a dark mood to connote the genre or a scene to the audience. It depicts a tension between cold nordic countries and the murder, misogny, rape and racism that is underlying. It frequently features a female protagonist which extends to film and television. It represents detectives as worn down by the cares of life and far from simply heroic giving them a more relatable and realistic feel from their character. It represents Sweden as a highly liberal country however it shows the terrorism that the country is subject to, for eg the murder of the president back in the 70s.
The history of Scandinavian crime fiction: Nordic Noir is best known via famous writer Stieg Larsson who was building a phenomenon crescendo for the genre. In the last decade Swedish and Norwegian writers have transformed the murder mystery such as Nordic Noir and the girl with the dragon tattoo into a vehicle to critique contemporary Europe. Ed Mcbain realised that there was a huge unexplored territory in which crime novels could form the framework for social criticism. This led for other writers to attempt to do the same thing in the line of crime novels and then expand into crime television series for example the bridge.
The generic conventions within this documentary is that of; the use of monotone audio visual, the use of dim or artificial lighting that connotes the dark tone of that is normally used within crime series. There is a use of Hollywood block buster films intertwined into this genre to add a comparative factor against other crime series. The use of classical/ soft music adds a sympathetic tone to the series.. It also portrays Scandinavia as family generous welfare states.
The bridge was created and written by Hans Rosenfeldt, a joint creative and financed product between sweden's Sveriges television and Denmark's DR, this series has been shown in more than 100 countries. On several occasion The Bridge failed to have sufficient viewers t one placed in SVT1's weekly top 10 programmes, due to competition from commercial broadcaster TV4 with its offering gaining over a million viewers. The first series had been purchased for broadcasting in 134 countries worldwide which may of supplied them with revenue to created the next series. It is also most likely that the series received funding via co-funding of external partners, remake sales and international and regional funding. Ownership seems to be mostly with the danish and partly with the swedish as the swedish are co partners.
A brief summary of what occurred through out the series is that; in season 1- it began with a body found half way between Sweden and Denmark on the Oresund bridge linking Malmo to Copenhagen. In series 2 ended up with Saga turning in her partner Martin for murdering the man who killed his son and season 3 episode 1, a prominent Danish gender campaigner is found murdered in Malmo, Swedish detective Saga Noren is assigned a new danish colleague to help with the investigation but their relationship does get off to a good start with emotions running high about her involvement in sending Martin to prison for murder.
A few of the television stations that broadcasted and produced the series are; SVT- Sveriges Television is the swedish national public broadcaster which is funded similar to BBC. This is a public limited company that can be described as a quasi-autonomous non-governement organisation. Has regional offices and a production facility in Malmo which was used in the production of the bridge. This broadcaster is seen as being leftist liberal. DR- Danmark's Radio is a public service broadcasting corporation, which is funded by the levying of a licence fee and is also perceived as being leftist liberal. This station dominates the danish cultural life.
The generic conventions within this documentary is that of; the use of monotone audio visual, the use of dim or artificial lighting that connotes the dark tone of that is normally used within crime series. There is a use of Hollywood block buster films intertwined into this genre to add a comparative factor against other crime series. The use of classical/ soft music adds a sympathetic tone to the series.. It also portrays Scandinavia as family generous welfare states.
A brief summary of what occurred through out the series is that; in season 1- it began with a body found half way between Sweden and Denmark on the Oresund bridge linking Malmo to Copenhagen. In series 2 ended up with Saga turning in her partner Martin for murdering the man who killed his son and season 3 episode 1, a prominent Danish gender campaigner is found murdered in Malmo, Swedish detective Saga Noren is assigned a new danish colleague to help with the investigation but their relationship does get off to a good start with emotions running high about her involvement in sending Martin to prison for murder.
A few of the television stations that broadcasted and produced the series are; SVT- Sveriges Television is the swedish national public broadcaster which is funded similar to BBC. This is a public limited company that can be described as a quasi-autonomous non-governement organisation. Has regional offices and a production facility in Malmo which was used in the production of the bridge. This broadcaster is seen as being leftist liberal. DR- Danmark's Radio is a public service broadcasting corporation, which is funded by the levying of a licence fee and is also perceived as being leftist liberal. This station dominates the danish cultural life.
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