Why read European Television Crime Drama and Beyond?

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This book is the first to focus on the role of European television crime drama on the international market. As a genre, the television crime drama has enjoyed a long and successful career, routinely serving as a prism from which to observe the local, national and even transnational issues that…

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1 author picked European Television Crime Drama and Beyond as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Sunka Simon

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I am a fan of Nordic noir, and whenever I am in the middle of a Norwegian, Danish, or Finnish series, I always want to know more about the local aspects that I am missing.

As one of the earliest books covering European crime dramas in English, the individual chapters helped me understand the genre’s appeal over other genres, what motivated the different cultural depictions of local and national tensions, and how this, in turn, impacted global distribution and reception of crime series.

On top of this, the intriguing case studies gave me new crime dramas to add to my…

From Sunka's list on TV crime dramas.