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<p>In this article, I show how a vision for the Nordic region exists as a banal Nordism, based on years of content exchange, Nordic co-production models, and public funding opportunities. I document how new commercial players have been able to gain a very large market share in only a few years, significantly disrupting the reach of public service broadcasters in the Nordic region. The three largest contemporary commercial players on the Nordic market – Viaplay, HBO, and Netflix – have been able to, in very different ways, tap into the ideology of banal Nordism and the geopolitical unity of the Nordic region, and they have done so by producing and acquiring content that has deep associations with one of the Nordic region's main international brands: Scandinavian crime fiction and Nordic Noir.</p>
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In this article, I show how a vision for the Nordic region exists as a banal Nordism, based on years of content exchange, Nordic co-production models, and public funding opportunities. I document how new commercial players have been able to gain a very large market share in only a few years, significantly disrupting the reach of public service broadcasters in the Nordic region. The three largest contemporary commercial players on the Nordic market – Viaplay, HBO, and Netflix – have been able to, in very different ways, tap into the ideology of banal Nordism and the geopolitical unity of the Nordic region, and they have done so by producing and acquiring content that has deep associations with one of the Nordic region's main international brands: Scandinavian crime fiction and Nordic Noir.

Nordic Noir from Within and Beyond: Negotiating geopolitical regionalisation through SVoD crime narratives

Nordicom Review

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In this article, I show how a vision for the Nordic region exists as a banal Nordism, based on years of content exchange, Nordic co-production models, and...

Nordic Noir from Within and Beyond: Negotiating geopolitical regionalisation through SVoD crime narratives

Publié en ligne: 10 sept. 2020

Pages: 123 - 137

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2020-0012

Mots clés
Nordic Noir, geopolitics, online TV, public service, commercial television

© 2020 Kim Toft Hansen, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Nordic Noir from Within and Beyond: Negotiating geopolitical regionalisation through SVoD crime narratives

Publié en ligne: 10 sept. 2020

Pages: 123 - 137

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2020-0012

Mots clésNordic Noir, geopolitics, online TV, public service, commercial television

© 2020 Kim Toft Hansen, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
Nordic Noir, geopolitics, online TV, public service, commercial television