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The Bridge, Industry, Contexts, Audience, Media language, Representation,…
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Industry
UK Broadcaster: BBC Four
- niche audience
- broadcasts other Nordic Noir crime dramas
- forefront of non-english programming
- role is to reflect range of international culture
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Theories
Hesmondalgh
- vertical integration
- audience familiarity with crime drama conventions
- other nordic noir programmes being on BBC Four
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Received funding from:
- Copenhagen Film Fund
- €1million grant from Creative Europe Media
Contexts
social
- reflects the changing attitudes to gender and sexuality
- set in Sweden
- The Oresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden
- is a metaphor for the collaboration Denmark and Sweden police forces
- Sweden being more politically correct than Denmark
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historical
- stereotypes are subverted reflecting society changing
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economic
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- economic advantages of collaboration
- Nordic Noir genre could be globally marketed
Audience
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Theories
Hall
Preferred
- conventions of crime drama
- offering something new
- intertextual references to film noir
- feminist audiences empowered by strong female representations, lesbian relationship and gender issues
Negotiated
- enjoy the conventions of crime drama
- but feel uncomfortable with the gender issues
- Swedish & Danish audiences may feel the cultural representations are stereotypical
Oppositional
- struggle to sympathise with Saga
- find it difficult to connect emotionally
- a conservative audience will respond negatively to the Swedish attitudes to political correctness
Blumer & Katz
- escapism - characters, culture
- pleasure - following the investigation
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Media language
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Theories
Neale
- crime dramas have recognisable repertoire of elements
- need to show something new to appeal to audiences - Scandinavian setting, Saga's character
- Nordic Noir crime drama
Struass
- Sweden vs Denmark
- Saga vs Hanne
- nuclear vs non nuclear family
Todorov
- Equilibrium - Saga focused on work
- Disequilibrium - Halle Anker's body
- Equilibrium - episodic drama so no resolution
Representation
Theories
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bell hooks
- challenges "struggle to end patriarchal oppression" and "ideology of domination" through the strong female protagonists
Plot summary
- murder of Halle Anker (Danish gender campaigner/owner of Copenhagen's first gender neutral pre-school) in Malmo (Sweden)
- Saga (Swedish detective) is assigned a new colleague Hanne (Danish detective) to help with the investigation