Nordic noir in the UK: the allure of accessible difference
This article takes a closer look at the recent success of Nordic noir in the United Kingdom considering especially the ways in which this particular aesthetic or popular cultural form has come to function as a medium for intercultural communication wherein the perceived Nordicness of the genre plays...
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| description | This article takes a closer look at the recent success of Nordic noir in the United Kingdom considering especially the ways in which this particular aesthetic or popular cultural form has come to function as a medium for intercultural communication wherein the perceived Nordicness of the genre plays a central role in negotiating social and cultural desires and challenges pertaining mostly to the receiving culture. Nordic noir, I argue, is not merely a fleeting fashion but a publishing and media phenomenon that tells us something about particular patterns of cultural consumption in the first decades of the twenty-first century United Kingdom. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c54a7bd52cde4832af55b31956bd79462022-12-22T01:34:26ZengTaylor & Francis GroupJournal of Aesthetics & Culture2000-42142016-11-018011110.3402/jac.v8.3270432704Nordic noir in the UK: the allure of accessible differenceJakob Stougaard-Nielsen0Department of Scandinavian Studies, School of European Languages, Culture and Society, University College London, London, United KingdomThis article takes a closer look at the recent success of Nordic noir in the United Kingdom considering especially the ways in which this particular aesthetic or popular cultural form has come to function as a medium for intercultural communication wherein the perceived Nordicness of the genre plays a central role in negotiating social and cultural desires and challenges pertaining mostly to the receiving culture. Nordic noir, I argue, is not merely a fleeting fashion but a publishing and media phenomenon that tells us something about particular patterns of cultural consumption in the first decades of the twenty-first century United Kingdom.http://www.aestheticsandculture.net/index.php/jac/article/view/32704/49735Nordic noircrime fictionintercultural communicationmobilityexoticismNordicnesswhitenessthe killing |
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| title | Nordic noir in the UK: the allure of accessible difference |
| title_full | Nordic noir in the UK: the allure of accessible difference |
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| topic | Nordic noir crime fiction intercultural communication mobility exoticism Nordicness whiteness the killing |
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