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Swedish Cops: From Sjöwall and Wahlöö to Stieg Larsson

Swedish Cops: From Sjöwall and Wahlöö to Stieg Larsson


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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 Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. 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, Sjöwall and Wahlöö 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, Håkan Nesser, Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström, and Stieg Larsson, and in film series such asBeckandWallander. The first book of its kind about Swedish crime fiction,Swedish Copsis just as thrilling as the novels and films it analyzes.

Table of Contents:
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  

About the Author :
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 Malmo, Sweden, since 1999.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781783201884
  • Publisher: Intellect
  • Publisher Imprint: Intellect Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 335
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 671 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1783201886
  • Publisher Date: 15 Jul 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: From Sjöwall and Wahlöö to Stieg Larsson
  • Width: 178 mm


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