Law of the Land: Shades of Nordic Noir in an Arctic Western

Creating (in) the Arctic: Investigating collaboration and location through a case study of the Arctic noir serial Thin Ice

“…In recent years, this development has made its way to high-end TV drama building on both the political tensions and the distinct aesthetics of the Arctic landscapes. This is particularly evident in Nordic crime fiction, where ‘Arctic noir’ has already established itself as a marketing term and subject in scholarly writings on film and television drama (for example Hiltunen, 2020; Iversen, 2020; Waade, 2020). As argued by Anne Marit Waade, the term ‘Arctic noir’ builds on the characteristics of Nordic noir but differs by ‘making the Arctic setting and climate significant to the plotline of the crime narrative as well as in the visual aesthetic’ (Waade, 2020: 39), often approaching discussions of geopolitical issues, the climate or Indigenous peoples.…”