Modern Mythologies, Crime Narratives, and Developmental Contradictions: Nordic Noir in the “Transylvanian Alps”
Modern Mythologies, Crime Narratives, and Developmental Contradictions: Nordic Noir in the “Transylvanian Alps”

Summary/Abstract: The Nordic Noir wave created a connection between a) a distinct poetics of space,atmosphere and couleur locale, b) major lines of expansion of cultural tourism and of theexperience and hospitality industries connected to it, and, last but not least, c) the socialproblems derived from long-term developmental a-symmetries. On the basis of thetransposition of a Norwegian crime series format in a Carpathian-Transylvanian setting, theessay evaluates the measure to which the transfer of Nordic Noir visual aesthetics andpoetics of plot could also determine the translation of the agenda of tourism entanglementand social responsibility of Scandinavian crime genre series.

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