Modern Mythologies, Crime Narratives, and Developmental Contradictions: Nordic Noir in the “Transylvanian Alps”

Abstract

The Nordic Noir wave created a connection between a) a distinct poetics of space, atmosphere and couleur locale, b) major lines of expansion of cultural tourism and of the experience and hospitality industries connected to it, and, last but not least, c) the social problems derived from long-term developmental a-symmetries. On the basis of the transposition of a Norwegian crime series format in a Carpathian-Transylvanian setting, the essay evaluates the measure to which the transfer of Nordic Noir visual aesthetics and poetics of plot could also determine the translation of the agenda of tourism entanglement and social responsibility of Scandinavian crime genre series.