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KULeuvenX: Euro Noir: Cultural Identity in European Popular Crime Narratives
Learn how crime novels, films and television dramas can help investigate European cultural identity.
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10 weeks at 4-5 hours per week
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Online - Self Paced
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About KULeuvenX: Euro Noir: Cultural Identity in European Popular Crime Narratives
The crime genre, arguably the most popular narrative genre in Europe, is an ideal object of study for evaluating how the process of Europeanisation has impacted the forms of cultural production, distribution and reception.
Have you ever wondered what has made crime narratives so popular throughout Europe? If yes, this course is a perfect fit for you!
The European collaborative project 'DETECt – Detecting transcultural identity in European popular crime narratives', funded under EU Horizon 2020 research programme, has taken up the challenge to investigate how the concept of ‘Europe’ can help to better understand the current landscape of popular media and transmedia crime narratives.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 770151.
The views and opinions expressed in the MOOC are the sole responsibility of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.
What You Will Learn?
- To reflect on the multiple ways in which crime narratives represent social and historical realities .
- To think of the crime genre as a form of social criticism.
- To understand how crime narratives are used by different European communities to express their local, national or regional cultural identity.
- To recognize how crime narratives contribute to represent transcultural identities that cut across national and linguistic boundaries.
- To analyse the evolution and transformation of European transcultural identities through the circulation of popular narratives across different countries and media.
- To interpret how historical and political events influenced the representation of European society in crime narratives.