TV Crime Uniting European Peripheries
European peripheries are front and centre of contemporary European TV crime series. Kim Toft Hansen Aalborg University, Denmark Rural areas have been underrepresented by a popular culture with a preferred interest in the capitals and central urban areas. Now, as...
DETECt Bologna – An app to discover Bologna on the trail of detective stories
Discover Bologna in the footsteps of detective and noir stories. Download the Press Kit.In the city of Coliandro, there is a new tool at the service of cultural tourism: to travel between the places of noir narratives and those of real crimes that have marked...
Crime Writing – Between Literature, Cinema and TV
The meetings can be live streamed at this linkFrom 20 October, Link Campus University in Rome will host a series of meetings on crime, that will include literature, cinema, and TV series. Four meetings with four professionals and teachers, to explore the universe of...
Crimes Fictionnels, Crimes Factuels – International Symposium
7-8 October 2021, “Crimes Fictionnels, Crimes Factuels - Fictions criminelles européennes et discours médiatiques du crime”. Join the 2-day International Symposium organised by the DETECt project and ANR Numapresse to address crime fiction and the porosity of...
Screenwriting Contest – Announcing Winners
MAGERDO by Ewa Stec (Poland), RED PLANET BLUES by Harry Ayiotis (Cyprus) and SILVER GHOST by Carsten Jaeger (Germany) are the crime TV series projects that won the DETECt Crime Series Contest organised by DETECt and Serial Eyes. The award ceremony for the finalists of...
Pushing the boundaries of crime fiction
Published as ”Polisiye edebiyatin sinarlarini zorlamak: Arne Dahl projesi üzerine”. 221B Magazine, no. 32, 2021. Introducing the Arne Dahl project Kim Toft Hansen Aalborg University, Denmark Jan Arnald is a prolific Swedish writer and literary critic. He has published...
#DETECt2021 – Day Three
Watch the video of the Plenary Sessions and Contest Award Cermony. A reportage of #DETECt2021 Conference. Written by Nicola Pimpinella and Lavinia Sansone, Students of the Dams Degree Course (Link Campus University). The final day of the DETECt Conference at Link...
#DETECt2021 – Day Two
Watch the video of the Plenary Session. A reportage of #DETECt2021 Conference. Written by Nicola Pimpinella and Lavinia Sansone, Students of the Dams Degree Course (Link Campus University). The second day of the DETECt Conference at Link Campus University started with...
#DETECt2021 – Day One
Watch the video of the Plenary Session. A reportage of #DETECt2021 Conference. Written by Nicola Pimpinella and Lavinia Sansone, Students of the Dams Degree Course (Link Campus University). The first day of the DETECt Conference at Link Campus University "Detecting...
Screenwriting Contest – Announcing Semifinalists
DETECt and Serial Eyes are looking for the next great European crime series. Read moore.We are glad to announce that the first two stages of the selection process for our Screenwriting Contest are now completed. Two large committees formed by professional readers and...
Detecting Europe in Contemporary Crime Narratives: Print Fiction, Film, and Television
DETECt final international conference will take place online from 21 to 23 June 2021. The conference "Detecting Europe in Contemporary Crime Narratives: Print Fiction, Film, and Television" on 21-23 June 2021 wraps up DETECt, a European research project investigating...
Glocality and Cosmopolitanism in European Crime Narratives
Download the new special issue entirely devoted to the themes explored by the DETECt project. The new special issue of Aalborg University’s peer-reviewed journal Academic Quarter, entirely devoted to the themes explored by the DETECt project, has been published online...
Euro Noir – Mooc
The MOOC on “Euro-Noir: Cultural Identities in European Popular Crime Narratives” is entirely free and can be accessed at any moment through registration on the official edX page. Discovering European Crime Fiction with the MOOC on “Euro-Noir” created by DETECt ...
Call For Papers: Fictional Crimes/Factual Crimes. European crime fiction and media narratives of crime
International conference Paris Nanterre University, 7-8 October 2021 The close relationship between crime fiction and authentic events is a crucial aspect of popular culture, in Europe as elsewhere. On the one hand, crime fiction has always drawn from news stories and...
Crime Narratives as Transcultural Communication
Download the policy brief Creative Europe’s Support for European TV Fiction Programming.New report from the DETECt project Kim Toft Hansen and Lynge Stegger Gemzøe ( Aalborg University) DETECt researchers have now finalized the report Researching Transcultural...
Writing Young Wallander Masterclass
Join us for this masterclass on Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 5 pm GMT / 6 pm CET / 9 am PST! Get your free ticket on Eventbrite. Kurt Wallander is one of the most iconic characters in contemporary crime fiction. Henning Mankell’s creation has come to life in novels,...
Serial Narratives and the Unfinished Business of European Identity #6
A multi-episode, virtual journey into European crime narratives. Vagelis Giannisis’ series featuring Anders Economides: a bridge between Northern and Southern Europe Christos Dermentzopoulos, Nikos Filippaios, Lampros Flitouris (University of Ioannina) In our case...
Serial Narratives and the Unfinished Business of European Identity #5
A multi-episode, virtual journey into European crime narratives. Hilde Vandermeeren: writing crime fiction in today’s Flanders Jan Baetens and Roberta Pireddu (Ku Leuven)Flemish crime fiction is, as an institutionalized genre, a rather recent phenomenon. It is...
Serial Narratives and the Unfinished Business of European Identity #4
A multi-episode, virtual journey into European crime narratives. Location Matters. Berlin in Contemporary Television Crime Series Thomas Morsch (Freie Universität Berlin) The choice of location is an important aspect of television series in general, and this is...
Serial Narratives and the Unfinished Business of European Identity #3
A multi-episode, virtual journey into European crime narratives. The North of Nordic Noir: Åsa Larsson’s series about Rebecka Martinsson Katarina Gregersdotter (Umeå University) Nordic Noir has certainly been marketed, and possibly read, as a genre (however diverse it...
Serial Narratives and the Unfinished Business of European Identity #2
A multi-episode, virtual journey into European crime narratives. Today’s Plural Europe in Crime Television Álvaro Luna-Dubois (Université de Limoges) With crime television series featuring ethnic minorities and immigrants as early as in the 1980s in France or the...
Serial Narratives and the Unfinished Business of European Identity #1
A multi-episode, virtual journey into European crime narratives.Eastern-European-ness in Western/Eastern Crime Narratives: A Game of Mirrors? Caius Dobrescu, Sándor Kalai, Anna Keszeg, Dorottya Molnár-Kovács, Roxana Eichel ( University of Bucharest, University of...
How do we read when we read crime fiction?
“Crime fiction” is everywhere, and that is definitely one of the reasons why one can call it “popular”.
Call for Papers: Detecting Europe in contemporary crime narratives
DETECt final international conference will take place at Link Campus University in Italy from 21 to 23 June 2021. Download the Call for Papers. DETECt final international conference will take place at Link Campus University (Via del Casale di San Pio V 44 – Rome) in...
DETECt Aarhus with your smartphone
simply visit www.detectaarhus.eu with your smartphone. DETECt and VisitAarhus have now launched their mobile web-app DETECtAarhus, which introduces users to Denmark’s second city and its more criminal sides. The DETECt Aarhus App guides visitors through the city via...
African American Writing and French Crime Fiction
The city of Paris has inspired many generations of crime fiction authors from Europe and beyond. Here we look at three African American crime fiction authors who wrote from or about the City of Light. Álvaro Luna (University of Limoges) From writers like W.E.B Du...
DETECting European diversity through La Casa de Papel
After its release on April 3rd, Money Heist's fourth season has been the most watched show world-wide. Roxana Eichel (University of Bucharest) La Casa de Papel’s popularity in Romania (where blogs and fan pages inspired by the show are quite many) is enhanced by the...
No fiction, no popularity?
“Crime fiction” is everywhere, and that is definitely one of the reasons why one can call it “popular”.
Nordic Noir television influencing Euro Noir
DETECt research has been published in the new edited volume “Nordic Noir, Adaptation, Appropriation” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), edited by Badley, Linda, Andrew Nestingen and Jaakko Seppälä.
DETECting European identity through crime fiction
By Benoît Peeters Series: Espace Nord, n° 129 First edition: 1980 La Bibliothèque de Villers, suivi de Tombeau d’Agatha Christie by Benoît Peeters Jan Baetens (KU Leuven) There may be two ways to study the notion of “European identity” through crime fiction. The first...
DETECt moves online to hold the second project’s meeting
Since coronavirus travel restrictions to protect the public health and contain the spread of the virus do not allow face-to-face meetings, we have planned to hold the project’s second yearly meeting online. On April 26, 2018, DETECt took the first step. In the course...
La casa de papel: Netflix’s Post-Crash Thriller Returns for a Fourth Season
After its release on April 3rd until April 5th, Money Heist's fourth season has been the most watched show world-wide. Markus Schleich (Queen's University Belfast) When La casa de papel first appeared on Spanish television screens on the Spanish network Antena 3 in...
Europe in one room
The Netflix police procedural is an anthology developed in four chapters, each centred on one different European country.What does exactly make the tv series Criminal (Netflix, 2019) an interesting key to understand the transformations of crime fiction genre in the...
DETECting European Audiences
Participants wanted for online survey about European crime TV! Do you like watching crime series on TV or on streaming services? If so, the DETECt project needs you! Our DETECt colleagues in Rome and Aarhus want to find out which crime shows you like, which are your...
Crime Fiction in Europe
The exhibition will run from March 6th to December 31th, 2020 at the Bibliothèque des littératures policières. Admission is free. Closed on Sundays, Mondays and holidays. Website: https://europedupolar.paris.fr/ Download the English or French press release. L'Europe...
The research report “Location Marketing and Cultural Tourism” now online
New scholarly report on locations and place branding in European crime narratives calls for increased policy incentives towards less used locations across the continent. Download the report Location marketing and cultural tourism. Crime narratives as destination...
Call for Abstracts – Through a Glass Darkly: European History and Politics in Contemporary Crime Narratives
Editors: Monica Dall’Asta, Jacques Migozzi, Federico Pagello, Andrew Pepper. Edited by Monica Dall’Asta, Jacques Migozzi, Federico Pagello, Andrew Pepper To talk about the crime genre—as opposed to detective or spy or noir fiction—is to recognise the...
The rise of streaming: trends in the European TV market
A closer look at the impact of streaming on European television. The interactive infographic is based on data from the European Audiovisual Observatory in Strasbourg. Did you know that Denmark is the EU Country with the highest share of subscribers to Video on Demand...
History and crime fiction
Postgraduate seminar at University of Ioannina, School of Philosophy, Department of History-Archeology (winter semester 2019-2020)- Lecturers: Lampros Flitouris (Assistant Professor of History / Archeology), Christos Dermentzopoulos (Professor of School of Fine Arts)...
DETECting TV series screenwriting: workshop with Tommaso Matano
DETECting TV series screenwriting: workshop with Tommaso Matano Thursday 5 December 2019, 10:30 a.m. Link Campus University, Classroom 15 Via del Casale di San Pio V, 44 - Rome How is screenwriting for TV series changing in the streaming age? What is the...
A Journey into Nordic Noir: New tendencies and best titles in 2019
Katarina Gregersdotter and Kim Toft Hansen Originally published in 221B Nordic crime narratives in 2019 continue down well-trodden paths, but we have also seen new tendencies emerge. The police procedural is still the most widely used sub-genre, we still see quite a...
DETECt Events in Bologna (November 14-16, 2019)
From November 14 to November 15, the UNIBO team of the DETECt project will be engaged in three dissemination activities aimed at presenting and discussing the first results of the research launched in April 2018. On November 14 and 15, the DETECt Digital Humanities...
Call For Abstracts: Glocality and Cosmopolitanism in European Crime Narratives
Academic Quarter #22, 2020 Guest Editors: Monica Dall’Asta (Bologna) Natacha Levet (Limoges) Federico Pagello (Bologna) Deadline: January 15, 2020 Download the CFA Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the European crime narrative genre has represented the...
The Popular and the Political (pt. 1)
"If it is the crime of popular culture that it has taken our dreams and packaged them and sold them back to us, it is also the achievement of popular culture that it has brought us more and more varied dreams than we could otherwise ever have known" (Richard...
DETECt Aarhus App
Rådhus: Welcome Video. Banegårdspladsen: Interview with Ulla Malmos about filming The Exception (2020) in Aarhus.Bridge over Fiskergade: Trailer for the film Live Strong (2014).Åboulevarden: Clip from TV2 Østjylland showing “behind the scenes” from filming...
Call for abstracts: The Palgrave Handbook of European Crime Narratives
Editors: Cathrin Bengesser, Pia Majbritt Jensen and Kim Toft Hansen.Although a widely popular genre for over a century, crime narratives are experiencing an unprecedented popularity all across Europe and across different media at the moment. In literature, film and...
Euronoir: Day 3
Search #Euronoir2019 to follow the conference on Twitter. The third day of the Euronoir conference began with a keynote panel about Nordic Noir in its European Context. Professor Sue Turnbull form the University of Wollongong, Dr. Anna Estera Mrozewicz from the...
Euronoir: Day 2
Search #Euronoir2019 to follow the conference on Twitter. Fieldtrip to Aarhus: “a perfectly good city for killing people” – in film, TV and novels The second day of the Euronoir conference started out with a field trip from Aalborg to Aarhus to test the trial version...
Euronoir: Day 1
Search #Euronoir2019 to follow the conference on Twitter. The first day of the DETECt Euronoir conference at Aalborg University started out with a short welcome address by Associate Professor Kim Toft Hansen, who greeted the 50 guests who came to Aalborg for the...
Euronoir: final programme now online
The final programme and Book of abstracts are online now. More details about the conference on the conference website DETECt’s first international conference will take place at Aalborg University in Denmark from 30 September to 2 October 2019. We are happy to announce...
DETECting the new era of TV crime dramas
The long-lasting relevance of television crime narratives will be at the center of the panel organized by the DETECt research team and included in the “industry agora” section of FeST – Il festival delle serie tv, in Milan (Saturday, September 21, 6.00pm, Triennale Milano).
DETECt in 221B magazine
"Our basic intention is to understand how crime narratives tap into this local and transnational comprehension of Europe as a complex and multifaceted continent" What does DETECt aim at by researching the contemporary history of crime genre in Europe? How have crime...
Euronoir: Preliminary programme announced
The preliminary programme is now online! More details about the conference on the conference website DETECt’s first international conference will take place at Aalborg University in Denmark from 30 September to 2 October 2019. We are happy to announce a packed...
The DETECt summertime binge-fest
Il cacciatore / The Hunter (Italy, 2018- present) (selected by Link Campus University) “Once upon a time in Sicily, a true story”. This is the incredible and untold story of the “hunting season” during the war between the mafia and the state of the 1990s. Saverio...
Detecting Europeanness: La Casa de Papel
La casa de papel (Money Heist) is a television series created by Álex Pina. It revolves around a long-prepared, multi-day assault on the Royal Mint of Spain. One key question of the DETECt project is how do European audiences make sense of European crime narratives?...
DETECting European Detective Narratives at the Summer School “Mediating Italy in a Global Culture”
Kasia Bogdańska, special to ProPublica On Saturday, June 22, 2019 a special DETECt seminar will be hosted by the Summer School “Mediating Italy in a Global Culture”, organised by the he Department of the Arts, University of Bologna, in collaboration with Brown...
DETECting “L’allieva” at the 6th Annual Conference of the International Crime Fiction Association
International Conference "Captivating Criminality 6. Metamorphoses of Crime: Facts and Fictions", 12-15 June 2019, G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. The sixth Conference of the International Crime Fiction Association will be held at G. d’Annunzio...
The DETECt consortium will soon meet in Northern Ireland for a three-day marathon of research and dissemination events
The project meeting includes a discussion of each work package, as well as additional working groups focusing on specific activities such as the design of the DETECt mobile app and Learning Community, as well as research themes such as the representation of European...
Euronoir – International Conference Aalborg University, 30 September – 2 October 2019
The conference will include industry and keynote panels with invited speakers from European crime production and crime narratives research. International Conference EURONOIR PRODUCERS, DISTRIBUTORS AND AUDIENCES OF EUROPEAN CRIME NARRATIVES 30 SEPTEMBER – 2 OCTOBER...
Women in Crime: Professional women and female identities in European crime narratives
The panel discussion is co-organized by Link Campus University and the associations "Women in Film, Television & Media Italy" and "Women in Games Italy". How is the role of professional women and female characters evolving in European popular culture and,...
Aalborg research workshop: DETECting Europe in TV Crime Series – Geopolitics, locations, audiences
What is the relationship between the small nations producing crime fiction and the rest of Europe? How is this relationship reflected on screen as well as in production forms and policies? How can popular European crime fiction be analysed on a geopolitical level? The...
The Paths of European Noir: Contemporary Crime Cinema in Five Films
Five films from (more than) five different countries, including both adaptations and original screenplays, will showcase the richness and variety of the European contribution to the genre at the core of our research. How do crime narratives express the tensions and...
Is there such a thing as Eastern-European Noir? The team of Debrecen at CEECOM 2018
The Debrecen team participated in the 11th Central and Eastern European Communication and Media Conference (CEECOM 2018), entitled Communicative Space – Political Space The Debrecen team participated in the 11th Central and Eastern European Communication and Media...
Welcome to our brand new site
official icon The official website of the DETECt project is finally online. It will function as DETECt institutional interface, hosting a detailed project presentation and public deliverables. It will be the main reference point for all people interested in the...
Taking the first step: DETECt’s kick-off meeting
kick-off meeting in Bologna, at the DAMSLab of the Department of the Arts, University of Bologna. The first step was taken: on April 26 and 27 the partners of the DETECt Consortium gathered in Bologna, Italy, for the project’s kick off meeting. The event took place at...
Bologna research workshop:
An insight into DETECt’s “backstage”
Sofia Helin in Bron/Broen (2011-2018) As the closing event of the kick-off meeting, the first DETECt public workshop took place in Bologna on April 27. Colleagues and students from the University of Bologna were able to hear about some of the work that led to...
