Peripheral Locations in European TV Crime Series

Kim Toft Hansen is Associate Professor of Scandinavian Media Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the co-author of Locating Nordic Noir: From Beck to The Bridge (2017), the co-editor of European Television Crime Drama and Beyond (2018) and has written extensively on Nordic and European television crime series.Valentina Re is Full Professor of Film and Media Studies at Link Campus University, Italy. She is the editor of Streaming media. Distribuzione, circolazione, accesso (2017) and the PI of the research project The Atlas of Italian “Giallo”: Media History and Popular Culture (1954-2020), funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (2022-25).

• 1.European Scenes of Crime: Peripheries at the Centre.- 2.The Double Marginality of Peripheral Locations.- 3.Nordic Noir and Arctic Peripherality in Northern Europe.- 4.Mediterranean Noir and Nordic Peripheries in Southern Europe.- 5.Country Noir and Rural Peripheries in Western Europe.- 6.Eastern Noir and the Borderscapes of Eastern Europe.- 7.Brit Noir and the Hinterlands of the British Isles.- 8.Conclusion: Negotiating European Peripheries in TV Crime Series.