Swedish Cops (eBook)

From Sjöwall and Wahlöö to Stieg Larsson

Michael Tapper (Autor)

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2014
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-78320-280-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Michael Tapper considers Swedish culture and ideas from the period 1965 to 2012 as expressed in detective fiction and film in the tradition of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. Believing the Swedish police narrative tradition to be part and parcel of the European history of ideas and culture, Tapper argues that, from being feared and despised, the police emerged as heroes and part of the modern social project of the welfare state after World War II.Establishing themselves artistically and commercially in the forefront of the genre, Sjowall and Wahloo constructed a model for using the police novel as an instrument for ideological criticism of the social democratic government and its welfare state project. With varying political affiliations, their model has been adapted by authors such as Leif G. W. Persson, Jan Guillou, Henning Mankell, Hakan Nesser, Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom and Stieg Larsson, and in film series such as Beck and Wallander. The first book of its kind about Swedish crime fiction, Swedish Cops is just as thrilling as the novels and films it analyses.

Autor

lt;p>Michael Tapper teaches film at Lund University. He has been a contributor to the Swedish National Encyclopaedia since 1989 and has served as film critic at the daily Sydsvenska Dagbladet in Malmö, Sweden, since 1999.

Inhalt

Introduction

Chapter 1 – The Crime Genre

Origins

Crime and the Law

Chapter 2 – Enter the Police

A Genre is Born

The Police and the Welfare State

Backlash

Dirty Harry

Crime and Civilization

Crime Dystopia: The Psychopath and the Serial Killer

Chapter 3 – Crime Scene: Sweden

A Beginning

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft and the Nation 

Crime and Nationality

The Young Savages of the Asphalt Jungles

The Hoodlum Film

The Politics of Crime

From Punishment to Reform and Back Again

Moral Panics and Crime Journalism

Print the Faction!

Chapter 4 – The 1960s and 1970s: Sjöwall and Wahlöö

Liberal-Conservative Criticism of the Welfare State

Criticism from within the Labour Movement

New Left Criticism of the Welfare State

Eco-Humanist or Green Criticism of the Welfare State

Per Wahlöö and Maj Sjöwall before Sjöwall and Wahlöö

Story of a Crime: Sjöwall and Wahlöö from Freud to Marx

The Film Adaptations

Chapter 5 – The 1980s: Leif G.W. Persson and Jan Guillou

Leif G.W. Persson

Jan Guillou

Chapter 6 – The 1990s: Henning Mankell and Håkan Nesser

Henning Mankell

Håkan Nesser and the Eurocop from Neverland

Chapter 7 – Millennium Cops

Crime and punishment in the Age of War on Terror

'Europudding' Police

Son of Dirty Harry: Beck  and the Iconic Rise of Gunvald Larsson

Roslund and Hellström

Steig Larsson

Leif G.W. Persson: Downfall of the Welfare State

Chapter 8 – Into the Twilight

Cops and the Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft Dichotomy

The Vigilante Cop and Right-wing Extremism

The Vigilante Cop and Fascism

The Challenge of Evil

 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2014
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
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• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-78320-280-7 / 1783202807
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78320-280-5 / 9781783202805