nordic noir

1      Define and explain the history , cultural elements and generic conventions of " Nordic Noir".

Nordic noir also known as Scandinavian noir is a genre of crime fiction, which is often written from a police point of view. The setting often has bleak landscapes and the mood tends to be dark/morally complex. The genre explores tension between the apparent still and bland social surface of Nordic countries.Frequently featuring a female protagonist, the popularity of the genre has extended to film and television, such as  The Killing and its American adaptation, Marcella, and The Bridge and its French-British and American adaptations The genre depicts a tension between the apparently still and bland social surface in the Nordic countries, and the murder, misogyny, rape, and racism it depicts as lying underneath Some critics attribute the genre's success to a distinctive and appealing style, realistic, simple, precise and stripped of unnecessary words. Their protagonists are typically detectives worn down by cares and far from simply heroicThe works also owe something to Scandinavia's political system where the apparent equality, social justice, and liberalism of the Nordic model is seen to cover up dark secrets and hidden hatreds. Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, for example, deals with misogyny and rape, while Henning Mankell's Faceless Killers focuses on Sweden’s failure to integrate its immigrant population.