Tobias Hochscherf, Heidi Philipsen

Beyond The Bridge (eBook, PDF)

Contemporary Danish Television Drama

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing worldwide acclaim from critics and audiences alike, programmes like The Killing, Borgen, The Bridge and The Legacy demonstrate widespread fascination with Danish style, aesthetics and culture as seen through television narratives. This book uses familiar, alongside lesser known, case studies of drama series to demonstrate how the particular features of Danish production - from work cultures, to storytelling techniques and trans-national cooperation - have enhanced contemporary Danish drama's appeal both at home and abroad. The era of globalisation has blurred national and international television cultures and promoted regular cross-fertilisation between film and television industries. Important questions have emerged from this context surrounding, for example, the 'Americanisation' of foreign television formats, the meaning and practice behind the term 'quality television', and the purpose and efficacy of public service broadcasting. Beyond the Bridge tackles these issues in relation to Danish television, by examining the so-called 'scaffolded production processes' behind the making of quality serials and their thought-provoking content.
Drawing on popular motifs from these celebrated dramas such as foreign politics, organised crime, global warming, and the impact of multinational corporations, this timely book provides crucial insight into the Danish dramas at the forefront of sophisticated, forward-thinking, fictional television.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786731456
• Artikelnr.: 55355110

Autorenporträt

Tobias Hochscherf is Professor in Film, Radio and Television at the University of Applied Sciences in Kiel, Germany. He is associate editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, the Journal of Scandinavian Cinema and the Journal of Popular Television. He is author of The Continental Connection: German-speaking Émigrés and British Cinema, 1927-45 (2011), co-author of Beyond the Boundaries: Contemporary Danish Television Drama (2017), and he has co-edited the anthologies British Science Fiction Film and Television: Critical Essays (2011) and Divided, but not Disconnected: German Experiences of the Cold War (2010), as well as a themed issue for the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
On 'Dissent and Dissidents in Central and Eastern European Film' (with Bjørn Sørenssen und Rolf Werenskjold, 2021).