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Unveiling the Rise of Local Noir: Regionalization in Danish TV Drama Production

Explore the growing trend of local noir in Danish TV dramas, focusing on Norskov as a prime example of regionalization in storytelling. Discover how local settings challenge traditional production and funding models, shaping a new narrative landscape in the global TV market.

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Unveiling the Rise of Local Noir: Regionalization in Danish TV Drama Production

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  1. Norskov as localnoirand regionalization in Danish TV drama production Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University.

  2. 1. Local drama production in Denmark is on the rise 2. Nordic noirmaybe a driving force of localisation 3. Norskov may ‘lift’ a localityaway from the periphery

  3. Regional noir-drama production En by i provinsen (1977-80) Strisser på Samsø (1997-98) Unit One (2000-4) Dicte (2012-) Norskov (Danish TV2, 2015) ‘localnoir’ (Leenhouts 1996) ‘local noir literature and film’ (Mah 2014)

  4. Covers 26 out of 96 municipalities in Denmark Public Service Fund: regional obligations in the media for agreement 2015-18 The West Danish Film Fund Copenhagen Film Fund Film Commission Fyn

  5. Television series co-financed by regional film funds Local representation in local TV – localnoir Almost haft shows arecrime fiction Motivation: Creating/sustaininglocal growth and talent Denmark is ‘local’ in the worldtoo Definition of ‘local’ varies Norskov (2015) Ludvig and Santa Claus (2011) The Twins and Santa Claus (2013) Dicte (2012-) Wallander (BBC) The Team (2015) MidsomerMurders (2014) The Bridge III (2015) Heartless (2014) Rita III (2015) The Christmas Wish (2015) 1864 (2014) The Legacy (2014-

  6. Nordic noir, or localnoir Nordic noirbrand – a fuzzy reference to place Local - peripheral Denmark vs. placespecificity “If anyone tells you that this is peripheral Denmark, tell them that the world is not flat” Place in production and plot “It’s the first time that a town plays the lead role in a TV-series.” Mikkel SeedorffSørensen(Managing director at Port of Frederikshavn)

  7. Local TV and localnoirchallenges… …genericnotion of Nordic noir (not a genre) …traditionalproduction models …traditionalfunding models …dichotomybetweencultural and industrypolicies …specificity of Nordicnoir NORSKOV From ”Nordic crime drama” and ”police drama” to ”drama” a nounlosingadjectives (reversedRick Altman) Nordic noir as a selling point for localfunding ”Norskov is so global” (Rose Aykroyd, ICM Partners) Norskov as local, or evenport noir: the port as a verylocal and global place (Alice Mah)

  8. 1) Early international promotional material for Norskov(2014). AFP – Advertiserfundedproduction Sponsor’s show reel: representation of locality in sponsorship 8-10 mio. DKR into a potential secondseason The port in Norskov: the closestyoumayget to product placement in Danish television drama 2) Promotional still from canaldigital.dk. 4) Still from Wallander – Sidetracked (BBC, 2008) 3) Images in promotion folder about port expansion (”Port of Opportunities – Sætkurs mod fremtiden”)

  9. Translocalimages with commercialvalue:Hinterland and Norskov

  10. Panoramicmaps as place branding Quebec 1755 London 1845 St. Louis 1859 Copenhagen 1640

  11. Intention: liftedlocalities “In contemporary ‘international communication’ the standardisation of locality is crucial. A ‘lifted’ locality – a sense of locality that is communicated “from above” – has to be a standardised form of the local (whether it be a neighborhood, a city, a country, or even a world region). An ‘international TV enterprise like CNN produces and reproduces a particular pattern of relations between localities, a pattern which depends on a kind of recipe of locality. This standardisation renders meaningful the very idea of locality, but at the same time diminishes the notion that localities are “things in themselves.” Roland Robertson 2012: 195

  12. From above, from below Local TV-drama production as a part of ‘a counter-urbanisationtrend’ creating ‘forms of dwelling in a world of flux’ and‘a global sense of place’ where people are ‘rooted’ instead of ‘routed’ Shaun Moores – Media, Place & Mobility

  13. Sum up / defininglocalnoir: Local noir is a trend on the rise in crime fiction, even though ‘places as such’ have been a topos in Western crime fiction since its beginning. Local noir is part of an general counter-centralization trend in drama production and story-telling. For the locality, it may create a new sense of dwelling and ‘pride’ in a world on the move, but it may outside of the locality still be viewed as very both national and global in scope. Rather than diminishing the idea of localities, local TV production, and especially local crime fiction in its broad appeal, draw attention to specific places and may ‘lift’ it from out of the downward spiral of peripherality. In doing so local noir challenges several traditional assumptions about drama production and consumption.

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