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Danish Television Drama

Global Lessons from a Small Nation

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Includes a range of authors from a variety of countries and disciplines, offering multiple points of entry for scholars interested in television drama, small nation film and television cultures, production, distribution and reception in a digital and global media landscape
  • Offers unique insights from both scholarly, industry and audiences voices and analysis based on on rich empirical studies including interviews with sellers, buyers, producers, distributors, bloggers and viewers, as well as fieldwork at television markets and industry events
  • Analyses the many different reasons behind the unexpected success of Denmark as a small nation production culture and explores the global impact of this development in relation to issues such as audience engagement, digital distribution, and adaptation in many diverse markets

Part of the book series: Palgrave European Film and Media Studies (PEFMS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Transnational Television Drama? Lessons Learned from Danish Drama

    • Anne Marit Waade, Eva Novrup Redvall, Pia Majbritt Jensen
    Pages 1-22
  3. Societal and Cultural Values in DanishDanish television drama TelevisionTelevision drama Drama

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
  4. Small Nation Perspectives: Producing DanishDanish television drama TelevisionTelevision drama Drama

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
  5. Global Lessons: Distribution and Reception of DanishDanish television drama TelevisionTelevision drama Drama

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 253-261

About this book

This book explores how to understand the international appeal of Danish television drama and Nordic Noir in the 2010s. Focusing on production and distribution as well as the series and their reception, the chapters analyse how this small nation production culture was suddenly regarded as an example of best practice in the international television industries, and how the distribution and branding of particular series – such as Forbrydelsen/The Killing, Borgen and Bron/The Bridge – led to dedicated audiences around the world. Discussing issues such as cultural proximity, transnationalism and glocalisation, the chapters investigate the complex interplays between the national and international in the television industries and the global lessons learned from the way in which screen ideas, production frameworks and public service content from Denmark suddenly managed to travel widely. The book builds on extensive empirical material and case studies conducted as part of the transnational research project ‘What Makes Danish Television Drama Travel?’

Reviews

“This comprehensive anthology contributes to the fascinating debate around the often unpredictable cultural impact of small television nations. Television that travels well succeeds in securing benefits for the industry, translated into access to audiences, revenues, and cultural capital … . This anthology constitutes a brilliant example of confident television scholarship focusing on non-Anglophone contexts and able not only to interpret a phenomenon but to crystallize concrete lessons for both the industry and academia. A win-win situation.” (Georgia Aitaki, Critical Studies in Television, Vol. 17 (1), 2022)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Anne Marit Waade, Pia Majbritt Jensen

  • University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Eva Novrup Redvall

About the editors

Anne Marit Waade is Professor in Global Media Industries at University of Aarhus, Denmark. She is the author of Locating Nordic Noir (2017) and Wallanderland (2013) and other publications on television drama and crime series, media tourism, creative industry and place branding. Her research has been supported by funding bodies such as The Danish Innovation Fund, H2020, AHRC and DDF.

Eva Novrup Redvall is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, where she heads the Section for Film Studies and Creative Media Industries. She is the author of Writing and Producing Television Drama in Denmark: From The Kingdom to The Killing and many other publications on Nordic film and television, screenwriting and production.

Pia Majbritt Jensen is Associate Professor in Media Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Co-Director of The Centre for Transnational Media Research. An audience, industry and production scholar,her current research interests and projects include crime narratives in television, film and literature and the production and reception of audiovisual fiction and cross-media storyworlds for children and young people.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Danish Television Drama

  • Book Subtitle: Global Lessons from a Small Nation

  • Editors: Anne Marit Waade, Eva Novrup Redvall, Pia Majbritt Jensen

  • Series Title: Palgrave European Film and Media Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40798-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40797-1Published: 05 August 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40800-8Published: 06 August 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-40798-8Published: 04 August 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2634-615X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6168

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 261

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Screen Studies, European Cinema and TV

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eBook USD 59.99
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Softcover Book USD 79.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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