Table of Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (Author, Iceland)
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Noir in the North
Gunnthorunn Guðmundsdóttir (University of Iceland, Iceland) and Gerardine Meaney (University College Dublin, Ireland)
PART I GENDER AND TRANSNATIONAL DIMENSIONS
2. The Woman Between: A Social Network Analysis of The Fall and The Bridge
Gerardine Meany (University College Dublin, Ireland), Derek Greene (University College Dublin, Ireland), Karen Wade (University College Dublin, Ireland), Maria Mulvany (University College Dublin, Ireland)
3. Adapting Nordic Noir: From Forbrydelsen to The Killing
Delphine Letort (Le Mans University, France)
4. Lilyhammer's 'Land of Second Chances': Masculinity, Violence and Corruption
Catherine Ross Nickerson (Emory University, USA)
PART II SPACE AND PLACE
5. Views from The Bridge: Panoramas, Streetscapes and the Optics of Noir
Graeme Gilloch (Lancaster University, UK)
6. Complex Nostalgias: North, Pastness and Community Survival in Arnaldur Indriðason's Strange Shores and Ann Cleeves' Blue Lightning
Daisy Neijmann (University of Iceland, Iceland)
7. Nordic Noir and the 'Postcolonial' North: The Legacies of Danish Colonialism in the Nordic Region
Christinna Hazzard (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
PART III POLITICS AND MORALITY
8. Crime's Cartography: Using Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Story of a Crime to Map Sweden's Coordinates within Global Neoliberalism's Uneven Spread
Patrick Kent Russell (University of Connecticut, USA)
9. Kid Stuff: Nordic Noir, Politics, and Quality
Andrew Nestingen (University of Washington, USA)
10. Dark Nights and Moral Diversity: Re-thinking Morality in Nordic Noir
Mary Evans (London School of Economics, University of London, UK)
PART IV GENEALOGY AND GENRE
11. What's in a Name: The Thorny Thread of Nordic Noir
Björn Nordfjörd (St. Olaf College, USA)
12. Bleakness and Tenacity: Nordic Noir and Fin-de-siècle French Decadent Literature
Christopher James (Bridgewater College, USA)
13. Dragon Tattoos, Crime, and the City: The Contemporary Epic
Giti Chandra (University of Iceland, Iceland)
14. The New Swedish Police Thriller of the 2010s
Kerstin Bergman (Lund University, Sweden)
15. 'Safe Little Norway': Norwegian Noir and the Roots of Subversive Sociopolitical Commentary
Nina Muždeka (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
16. Val McDermid on Noir in the North
Interview by Lorna Hill (University of Stirling, UK)
Coda
Gunnar Staalesen
Index