Nordic Noir: Crime Fiction, TV Series, and Film

About this course

Why are the TV series, movies, and crime fiction of Scandinavia so appealing? Is it the terse language, the Nordic landscape? Is it that the protagonists are anti-heroes, feminists, or outsiders? In the novels and on the screen, secrets are exposed and the postcard perfection of the Scandinavian welfare state is revealed to have a dark side. We study novels and TV series to encircle the phenomenon of Nordic Noir and discuss how these mirror Scandinavian society today.

Faculty

Jan Aage Rasmussen

Faculty

Cand.phil. (Scandinavian Philology). External lecturer, Literary Theory and Literary Analysis: Theory of Science and Mythology, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, 1993-present. Teacher of Danish to foreigners since 1987. With DIS since 2013.