Transnational TV Crime: From Scandinavia to the Outback

Traces the evolution of the TV crime drama since 2000 with a focus on the value these series have delivered to the creative industries and society in general. Explores the impact of Nordic Noir on Australian crime drama. Illustrates how the Australian television industry has responded to the global streaming environment. Introduces the concept of ‘total value’ and applies it to a series of case studies. Accounts for the industrial, creative, cultural and social benefits that may be derived from a television crime drama. This book offers an account of how the global popularity of the Nordic Noir wave of television crime drama such as The Killing/Forbrydelsen and The Bridge/Broen/Bron had a profound impact on the production of television crime drama in Australia. Through a series of case studies including Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, The Kettering Incident, Secret City and Mystery Road, the authors explore how the Australian television industry responded to the new streaming environment by producing shows with international reach and appeal. Central to this analysis is the concept of ‘total value’ which expands the notions of cultural and economic value to account for how these crime dramas generate value for the Australian screen industry in general, their creators in particular, as well as the social and financial benefits that may ensue for the communities in which they took place and audiences across the world.