[ecrea] Northern Lights 2011, vol 9

Media & Crime – Fiction and Journalism
Northern Lights, volume 9, Intellect journals 2011

Volume editors: Gunhild Agger and Anne Marit Waade; Journal editor: Stig 
Hjarvard

Crime is the central theme of a vast array of fiction in books, films, 
TV series, computer games and web-based interactivity. Crime is also one 
of the most popular subjects of journalism, mediated in newspapers and 
their websites, electronic media and on the web, where websites 
dedicated to the mediation of crime are abundant.

This represents a challenge for interdisciplinary research. The aim of 
the articles in the 2011 issue of Northern Lights is to highlight 
questions relating to the latest developments in the highly complex 
relationship between media and crime, fiction and journalism, by drawing 
on experiences and cases from different contexts. The articles represent 
a growing interdisciplinary and international academic interest in crime 
fiction, crime journalism and crime series productions in relation to 
global market conditions. The articles encompass cross-disciplinary 
perspectives that traverse histories and cultures, media and media 
practices.

Contents

Introduction: Gunhild Agger and Anne Marit Waade

Anne Marit Waade, Aarhus University: Crime scenes: Conceptualizing Ystad 
as location in the Swedish and the British BBC Wallander crime series

Maloe Sniekers and Stijn Reijnders, Erasmus University Rotterdam: 
Imprisoned by Dutroux: An ethnography of guilty houses in Belgium

Palle Schantz Lauridsen, University of Copenhagen: The making of a 
popular hero: Sherlock Holmes in early Danish media culture

Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University: Chinese court case fiction: A 
corrective for the history of crime fiction

Charlotte Beyer, University of Gloucestershire: Mediatization and 
mothers accused of murder in Sophie Hannah’s crime novel A Room Swept White

Daniel Brodén, University of Gothenburg: The dark ambivalences of the 
Welfare State: Investigating the transformations of the Swedish crime film

Gunhild Agger, Aalborg University: Emotion, gender and genre: 
Investigating The Killing Kathrin Rothemund, Leuphana Universität 
Lüneburg: Facing complex crime: Investigating contemporary German crime 
fiction on television

Torben Grodal, University of Copenhagen: Crime fiction and moral 
emotions: How context lures the moral attitudes of viewers and readers

Anker Brink Lund and Henrik Jensen, Copenhagen Business School: 
Continuity and change in mass-mediated crime coverage: Content analyses 
of newspapers, television, and web media

Ulrik Lehrmann, University of Southern Denmark: Tabloid crime 
journalism: Writing on the edge of existence

Karin Ljuslinder, Umeå University, Lisbeth Morlandstø, University of 
Nordland, Bodø and Jurga Mataityte-Dirziene, Vilnius University: The 
victim, the wicked and the ignored: Representation of mentally ill 
perpetrators of violent crime in the news reports in the Norwegian, 
Swedish and Lithuanian press


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Gunhild Agger

Professor, dr. phil.

Institut for Kultur og Globale Studier

(Dep. of Culture and Global Studies)

Aalborg Universitet

Kroghstræde 3

DK-9220 Aalborg Øst

Tlf. 9940 9029



www.krimiforsk.aau.dk

www.cgs.aau.dk



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