<i>The Killing</i>: The Gender Politics of the Nordic Noir Crime Drama and Its American Remake

Pinedo, Isabel C.

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“…In a transnational context, many Anglo-American series have been accused of appropriating the conventions of Nordic Noir while de-politicizing origin texts’ sense of global capitalism’s production of vulnerability, risk, and violence. For instance, Pinedo (2021) reads the U.S. series The Killing as moving from the structural global politics of the original Danish show it remakes to the neoliberal and psychoanalytic problem of the “bad mother.”…”

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Post-Procedural Form and Rape Ambiance: Policing Sexual Violence in Mare of Easttown

Dango

2023

Television & New Media

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Mare of Easttown figures a social environment that is both city and family at once, making it impossible to disentangle stranger rape and forms of acquaintance, date, or intimate partner rape—and therefore to locate the “problem” of rape as one of crimes to be solved by the police; or of ordinary heterosexuality, requiring more radical cultural transformation. Completing filming after the summer 2020 resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, the role of the police is further compromised in Mare of Easttown. I read the show’s episodic anxieties—its increasingly unrealistic plot developments that push at the borders of each episode in order to keep them open—as managing these ambivalences: between stranger and intimate rape; between “crime” and “the family”; between the public and the private; between trust in law enforcement and critique.

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Section: The Post-procedural Form and Two Genres Of Sexual Violencementioning

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Post-Procedural Form and Rape Ambiance: Policing Sexual Violence in Mare of Easttown

Dango

2023

Television & New Media

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“…Ese es el sentido de adaptar ficciones que se han emitido globalmente, a formatos más locales, pensados para públicos nacionales. Las adaptaciones a targets más homogéneos permiten conectar con aspectos identitarios, a través de menciones a la historia, costumbres, estética e incluso idioma del público al que va dirigido (Damasio, Paixao da Costa, 2020;Pineda, 2019).…”

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Narrativas de ficción para relatar una pandemia. Análisis y recepción de Diarios de la cuarentena (Televisión Española, 2020)

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García

2022

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Este trabajo analiza las relaciones entre ficción televisiva y pandemia en España, a través del estudio de un caso: Historias de la cuarentena (Televisión Española, 2020). Creada, producida y consumida en el escenario de la crisis del Covid-19, esta comedia de situación es un producto absolutamente coyuntural en el que confluyen tanto la visualidad como los temas televisivos hegemónicos de la crisis. El trabajo incide en el contenido, analizándolo, a través de la técnica de la lectura interpretativa, para profundizar en la narrativa y la visualidad del relato. Pero también recoge su recepción en Twitter: los comentarios, los emisores más destacados, la valoración de los usuarios, o las emociones vinculadas a los tuits serán desgranadas para identificar los significados de la teleserie para los públicos. Los resultados inciden en cómo las lecturas de la serie han sido eminentemente políticas, y menos humorísticas de lo que la narrativa pretendía.

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“…4 4 Pinedo points out that Forbrydelsen' s “bad mother trope” is exaggerated in its American remake, The Killing (2011–2013) , suggesting that this reflects the “anti‐egalitarian” cultural context of the USA relative to Scandinavian culture (Pinedo, 2019). …”

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“…In the horror series Servant, an ambitious television news anchorwoman forgets to retrieve her baby from the car on a hot day, and later finds him dead. In a more indirect vein, the successful female prosecutor in Il Processo ("The Trial") investigating the murder of a young girl realizes that the murder victim is the child she gave up for adoption at birth so that she could pursue her career; at the same time, she ruins her marriage by her infidelity.4 Pinedo points out that Forbrydelsen's "bad mother trope" is exaggerated in its American remake, TheKilling (2011Killing ( -2013, suggesting that this reflects the "anti-egalitarian" cultural context of the USA relative to Scandinavian culture(Pinedo, 2019).5 Mentioned earlier, Blinded: Those That Kill is a spinoff of Those That Kill.…”

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The curse of the thinking woman: Encoded misogyny in the brilliant female detective

Tutter

2023

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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The enormously popular contemporary genre of televised police procedurals that feature a brilliant female detective reflects and reifies enduring misogynistic beliefs and attitudes that pervade the cultural fantasies and social mores of our time. In her current form, the prototypical female protagonist of these series adheres to a rigid, stereotypical formulation that limits her capacity for mature, healthy object relations. In particular, her singular devotion to her work badly compromises her maternal function: thus, she is either barren or a bad mother, as well as a bad partner, sister, or daughter. Moreover, her professional excellence is itself pathologized, as the very qualities that make her extraordinary are typically attributable to the quintessential misogynistic trope of mental illness or emotional instability. The Greek myth of the birth of Athena explicates the threat embodied by the brilliant female detective, who, as a revival of the infantile fantasy of the all‐powerful, all‐knowing mother, infringes on the generative capacity of the mind: territory that men have since antiquity claimed in order to guard against envy of female procreative power. In return, she must be divested of her uniquely female powers, “the curse of the thinking woman.”

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The Killing: The Gender Politics of the Nordic Noir Crime Drama and Its American Remake

Cited by 7 publications

References 37 publications

Post-Procedural Form and Rape Ambiance: Policing Sexual Violence in Mare of Easttown

Post-Procedural Form and Rape Ambiance: Policing Sexual Violence in Mare of Easttown

Narrativas de ficción para relatar una pandemia. Análisis y recepción de Diarios de la cuarentena (Televisión Española, 2020)

The curse of the thinking woman: Encoded misogyny in the brilliant female detective

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