Rekonfiguracje i zapożyczenia. Skandynawski typ krajobrazu we współczesnych serialach noir

Kamila Żyto

doi:10.21697/zk.2025.12.04

Published: 2025-12-15

No. 12 (2025)

Rekonfiguracje i zapożyczenia. Skandynawski typ krajobrazu we współczesnych serialach noir

Kamila Żyto

Cultural Studies Appendix

Section: Artykuły

https://doi.org/10.21697/zk.2025.12.04

Abstract

The article focuses on landscape transformation as an important element of film noir iconography offering analyses of a variety of crime procedurals made in different countries and on different continents. The titles, which include Trapped, The Killing, The Thaw and 42 Days of Darkness, have also not been popular among the viewers of streaming platforms, but won critical acclaim as well as numerous awards. Recently, these productions have been employing a new type of landscape. Here, the urban jungle does not seem to be a unique crime scene any longer. Remote cities and provincial towns surrounded by infinite lakes, fjords, bays, and marshes are frequently utilized to raise existential fears. New landscapes carry the worldview and ideological background typical of film noir and by providing the setting of action they function primarily either as metaphors, or act independently becoming catalysts for events.

Keywords:

film noir, Nordic noir, noir series, landscape, iconography, crime procedurals

Similar Articles

Ilona Copik, Anishinaabe – her Home. The Cinematic Landscape in the Perspective of Indigenous Feminism , Cultural Studies Appendix: No. 12 (2025)
Magdalena Kempna-Pieniążek , Spacescapes. Space Documentaries as Landscape Films/Series , Cultural Studies Appendix: No. 12 (2025)
Ewa Baszak-Glebow , Sardinia – an Island of Contrasts. The Role of Landscape in Selected Italian Films , Cultural Studies Appendix: No. 12 (2025)
Krzysztof Loska, Teoria krajobrazu (fūkeiron)Masao Matsudy jako narzędzie krytyki politycznej w japońskim filmie i fotografii , Cultural Studies Appendix: No. 12 (2025)
Joanna Aleksandrowicz , The Intimate Landscape: Images of the Countryside in Recent Spanish Cinema , Cultural Studies Appendix: No. 12 (2025)
Piotr Zwierzchowski, Landscape with a Tank , Cultural Studies Appendix: No. 12 (2025)
Mikołaj Jazdon, Landscapes After the Battle. On the Role of Scenery in Andrzej Brzozowski’s Films , Cultural Studies Appendix: No. 12 (2025)
Daria Mazur, Landscapes of New Spirituality? – Reflections on Selected Films by Małgorzata Szumowska , Cultural Studies Appendix: No. 12 (2025)
Barbara Kita, Epstein’s and Godard’s reflections on the film landscape , Cultural Studies Appendix: No. 12 (2025)
Justyna Chojnacka, The Confession of an Ardent Film Buff – Inspirations, Structure and Style of Movie Posters by Andrzej Klimowski , Cultural Studies Appendix: No. 11 (2024)

You may also start an advanced similarity search for this article.

Download files

pdf (Język Polski)

Citation rules

Żyto, K. (2025). Rekonfiguracje i zapożyczenia. Skandynawski typ krajobrazu we współczesnych serialach noir. Cultural Studies Appendix, (12), 79–94. https://doi.org/10.21697/zk.2025.12.04

Cited by / Share

Licence

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

References

Cassinger Cecilia, Lucarelli Andrea, Gyimóthy Szilvia, The Nordic Wave in Place Branding: Poetics, Practices, Politics, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788974325
Google Scholar

Chandler Raymond, Głęboki sen, tłum. B. Czartoryski, Wydawnictwo Karakter, Kraków 2022.
Google Scholar

Copik Ilona, Topografie i krajobrazy. Filmowy Śląsk, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Katowice 2017.
Google Scholar

Czapiga Magdalena, Po-widoki pustki. O sposobach konceptualizowania pustki w kulturze współczesnej, Universitas, Kraków 2017.
Google Scholar

D’Aloia Adriano, Film in Depth. Water and Immersivity in the Contemporary Film Experience, „Acta Univ. Sapientae. Film and Media Studies” 2012, nr 5.
Google Scholar

Dimendberg Edward, Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2004. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674261587
Google Scholar

Frydryczak Beata, Więcej niż obraz: procesualna natura krajobrazu, [w:] Więcej niż obraz, red. E. Wilk, A. Nacher, M. Zdrodowska, E. Twardoch, M. Gulik, Wydawnictwo Naukowe „Katedra”, Gdańsk 2015.
Google Scholar

Hansen Kim Toft, Nordic Noir from Within and Beyond Negotiating geopolitical regionalisation through SVoD crime narrative, „Nordicom Review” 2020, nr 41(1), 123-137. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2020-0012
Google Scholar

Hansen Kim Toft, Re Valentina, Peripheral Locations in European Tv Crime Series, Palgrave MacMillan, b.m.w. 2024.
Google Scholar

Ingold Tim, Kultura i postrzeganie środowiska, tłum. G. Pożarlik, [w:] Badanie kultury. Elementy teorii antropologicznej, red. M. Kempny, E. Nowicka, PWN, Warszawa 2003.
Google Scholar

Kita Barbara, Photogenic qualities of aquatic landscapes in the works of Roman Polański, „Kulturowe Studia Krajobrazowe” 2020, nr 3 (6). DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/pls.2020.6.7
Google Scholar

Landscape and Power, ed. Thomas W. J. Mitchell, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago – London 2002.
Google Scholar

Lefebvre Martin, Between Setting and Landscape in the Cinema, [w:] Landscape and Film, red. M. Lefebvre, Routledge, New York – London 2006. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203959404
Google Scholar

Lesser Wendy, Scandinavian Noir. In the Pursuit of a Mystery, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2020.
Google Scholar

Locating Nordic Noir. From Beck to The Bridge, ed. Kim Toft Hansen, Anne Marit Waade, Palgrave Macmillan, London 2017.
Google Scholar

Miściorak Albert, Od krajobrazu kulturowego do przeżywanego. Rola przyrody w kształtowaniu krajobrazów, [w:] Więcej niż obraz, red. E. Wilk, A. Nacher, M. Zdrodowska, E. Twardoch, M. Gulik, Wydawnictwo Naukowe „Katedra”, Gdańsk 2015.
Google Scholar

Muller Eddie, Dark City; The Lost World of Film Noir, St. Martin’s Griffin, New York 1998.
Google Scholar

Nordic Noir, Adaptation, Appropriation, ed. Linda Badley, Endrew Nestingen, Jakko Seppälä, Palgrave Macmillan, b.m.w. 2020.
Google Scholar

Rybicka Elżbieta, Krajobraz kulturowy: między ideologiami a działaniami, [w:] Więcej niż obraz, red. E. Wilk, A. Nacher, M. Zdrodowska, E. Twardoch, M. Gulik, Wydawnictwo Naukowe „Katedra”, Gdańsk 2015.
Google Scholar

Sadowski Andrzej, Stare i nowe zagrożenia w zakresie konstruowania społeczeństwa wielokulturowego, „Pogranicze. Studia Społeczne” 2017, t. XXX.
Google Scholar

Schama Simon, Landscape and Memory, Vintage, New York 1996.
Google Scholar

Smith Imogen Sara, In a Lonely Place: Film Noir Beyond the City, McFarlan & Company, Jefferson, North Carolina – London 2011.
Google Scholar

Stougaard-Nielsen Jakob, Scandinavian Crime Fiction, Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2017.
Google Scholar

Tilley Christopher, Cameron-Daum Kate, Antrophology of Landscape. The Extraordinary in the Ordinary, USL Press, London 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1mtz542
Google Scholar

Tomala Magdalena, Państwa nordyckie wobec aktualnych aspektów kryzysu Unii Europejskiej, „Krakowskie Studia Międzynarodowe” 2017, nr 2.
Google Scholar

Waade Anne Marit, Melancholy in Nordic Noir: Characters, Landscapes, Land and Music in The Killing, „Critical Studies in Television” 2017, Special Issue: Danish TV Drama. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1749602017729629
Google Scholar

Włodek Patrycja, Cold-noir, Czarny kryminał i Skandynawia, „Panoptikum” 2017, nr 17 (24).
Google Scholar

Włodek Patrycja, Wszystko noir? O inspiracjach i wariantach – życie po życiu filmu noir, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego, Kraków 2022.
Google Scholar

Żyto Kamila, Film noir i kino braci Coen, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/8088-528-8
Google Scholar

Źródła internetowe
Google Scholar

Descubre más sobre las locaciones de “42 días en la oscuridad”, https://rockandwrestling.com/descubre-mas-sobre-las-locaciones-de-42-dias-en-la-oscuridad/ (dostęp: 02.02.2023).
Google Scholar

Webster Ayuso Julia, Galician noir: how a rainy corner of Spain spawned a new TV genre, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/03/galician-noir-how-a-rainy-corner-of-spain-spawned-a-new-tv-genre (dostęp: 4.02.2023).
Google Scholar

Rekonfiguracje i zapożyczenia. Skandynawski typ krajobrazu we współczesnych serialach noir

Abstract

Keywords:

Most read articles by the same author(s)

Similar Articles

Kamila Żyto