Post-Nordic-Noir landscapes: Competition through localisation in Finnish streaming media

Sanna Wicks; Pietari Kääpä

doi:10.1177/17496020221135183

Post-Nordic-Noir landscapes: Competition through localisation in Finnish streaming media

Sanna Wicks, Pietari Kääpä

Research Centre in Postdigital Cultures

University of Warwick

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Abstract

This article discusses the ways locality and sense of place are used in the production and promotion of streaming media from small nations. We concentrate on location-related decisions behind Man in Room 301 (2019), a Finnish thriller series produced by VOD service Elisa Viihde Viaplay. While locality acts as a significant tool for Nordic Noir, a genre of film and TV characterised by a distinct ‘localised’ style, this article explores how the Finnish streaming industry is progressing towards a ‘post-Nordic-noir’ framework, a direction that focuses on an intense sense of place, both on the level of representation and production-related decisions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	424-440
Number of pages	17
Journal	Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies
Volume	18
Issue number	4
Early online date	31 Oct 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020221135183
Publication status	Published - Dec 2023

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This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

Keywords

Nordic noir
finnish drama production
location
post-nordic-noir
streaming
television

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Cultural Studies
Communication

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