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Author Tapper, Michael, 1959-

Title Swedish cops : from Sjöwall and Wahlöö to Stieg Larsson / by Michael Tapper
Published Bristol : Intellect, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 377 pages) : illustrations
Contents The Crime Genre -- Enter the Police -- Crime Scene: Sweden -- The 1960s and 1970s: Sjöwall and Wahlöö -- The 1980s: Leif G.W. Persson and Jan Guillou -- The 1990s: Henning Mankell and Håkan Nesser -- Millennium Cops -- Into the Twilight
Summary "Michael Tapper considers Swedish culture and ideas from the period 1965 to 2012 as expressed in detective fiction and film in the tradition of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. Believing the Swedish police narrative tradition to be part and parcel of the European history of ideas and culture, Tapper argues that, from being feared and despised, the police emerged as heroes and part of the modern social project of the welfare state after World War II."--Publishers website
Notes Edited, revised and updated English edition of the author's thesis 'Snuten i skymningslandet': Lund, Nordic Academic Press, 2011
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-336) and indexes
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Subject Detective and mystery stories, Swedish -- History and criticism
Police in literature.
Police films -- Sweden -- History
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
Detective and mystery stories, Swedish.
Police films.
Police in literature.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Style Manuals
Sweden.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
Author Tapper, Michael, 1959- Snuten i skymningslandet
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