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This chapter examines the cultural mobilities of Nordic Noir from the perspective of contemporary Welsh-language and bilingual television drama production. It interrogates how Nordic Noir operates in contemporary transnational global television cultures, revealing the tensions entailed in such mobilities. Insights are adapted from linguistics, postcolonial studies, and minority-language media studies. The linguistic landscapes of crime dramas Hinterland/Y Gwyll, Craith/Hidden, and Bang (produced for the Welsh-language public service broadcaster S4C) are explored critically. This is not a story of linear impact where Nordic Noir arrived on Wales’s shores to transform the existing local production sector. Rather, it is a subtle narrative exploration of the Nordic/Celtic ‘contact zone’ that examines the capacity of Nordic Noir to enable textual mobilities and to engender productive re-evaluations of non-Anglocentric television drama.
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McElroy, R. (2020). The Linguistic Landscapes of Transnational Crime Drama: Nordic Noir’s Celtic Contact Zone. In: Waade, A., Redvall, E., Majbritt Jensen, P. (eds) Danish Television Drama. Palgrave European Film and Media Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40798-8_4
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