Media studies – TV
Repetition and difference

Police procedural / detective crime thriller conventions

Nordic noir/ Noiresque elements – “Celtic noir”

Could be described as what Michael Massey calls a “dislocation” drama, with a character (Mathias) displaced from their natural environment

Gender representations – stock characters and representations we expect in a crime drama – but two female killers

Setting and style, intensity of mood

Psychological thriller – slow pace and use of silence/ lack of dialogue

Technical codes – lighting, use of profile shots and intense close-ups, open frames with isolated figures

Gothic landscape

Bilingual

Audio track which connotes “other-worldly” elements – perhaps supernatural

Themes of “Blood, soil and belonging” (DVD cover); biblical overtones – references to God and the devil, good v evil in archaic terms; themes of entrapment and freedom (framing); the power of the past