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The chapter examines emotional engagement with Nordic crime drama The Bridge, using a cultural approach to genre, affect and emotion, and exploring how executive and creative producers, artistic performers, and audiences all perform specific practices that culminate in the co-production of intense engagement with this crime drama. The fieldwork took place during 2013–2016, with 40 production interviews and 170 audience interviews and participant observations in Sweden, Denmark, and Great Britain. A key research question concerns how genre, affect and emotion are interwoven in the fine details of the production of this crime drama and audience engagement with it.
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The research project took place during seasons two and three of Bron, the original drama, and season two of The Bridge adaptation in America.
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The production research for Bron was conducted by Annette Hill and Tina Askanius, and the audience research was conducted by Askanius and designed by Hill; the analysis of the interview data was conducted by Hill. My thanks to Tina Askanius for her excellent fieldwork and observations for this case study.
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Hill, A. (2018). Saga’s Story. In: Toft Hansen, K., Peacock, S., Turnbull, S. (eds) European Television Crime Drama and Beyond. Palgrave European Film and Media Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96887-2_15
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