Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Nordic Noir on Page and Screen

S. Peacock

Springer, Nov 13, 2012 - Performing Arts - 172 pages

Uniquely placed to explore the worldwide phenomenon of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy beginning with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the book offers the first full-length study of Larsson's work in both its written and filmed forms.

Contents

• Beginnings and Endings: 1
• Sales Figures and Sexual Abuse: 12
• Tradition and Innovation in Stieg Larssons Millennium Trilogy: 35
• 3 Salander in Cyberspace: 58
• Rewriting an OnScreen Crusader for the Digital Age: 79
• Millennium and Wallander On Screen and the Global Stage: 98
• Sarah Lund Sexual Politics and the Precariousness of Power and Difference: 118
• 7 Storytelling and Justice in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest Or In Defence of Inquisitorial Criminal Justice: 131
• 8 Interview Transcripts: 148
• Bibliography: 164
• FilmographyTeleography: 170
• Index: 172

About the author

SARAH CASEY BENYAHIA Head of Film at Colchester Sixth Form College, UK BARRY FORSHAW Editor of Crime Time, a talking head for ITV and BBC TV documentaries, and has been Vice Chair of the Crime Writers' Association JANET MCCABE Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK SARAH MOORE Lecturer in the Centre for Criminology and Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK SARAH NIBLOCK Head of Journalism and a Reader in Journalism at Brunel University, London, UK HEATHER O' DONOGHUE Reader in Old Norse, Linacre College, University of Oxford, UK

Bibliographic information

• Title: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Nordic Noir on Page and Screen; Palgrave Media & Culture Collection; Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
• Editor: S. Peacock
• Publisher: Springer, 2012
• ISBN: 0230390447, 9780230390447
• Length: 172 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century; Performing Arts / Film / General; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Television / General; Performing Arts / Television / History & Criticism; Photography / Techniques / Cinematography & Videography