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Concentrated Noir: Reinforcing and transgressing genre boundaries in Echo
- Source: Short Film Studies, Volume 11, Issue 1, Jan 2021, p. 97 - 101
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- 05 Feb 2020
- 25 Mar 2020
- 01 Jan 2021
Abstract
Nordic Noir has emerged as an increasingly codified set of aesthetic, political and philosophical televisual elements. Echo compresses these elements, subjecting them to the crucible of short film. This article investigates the dramatic potential of stripping back cross-genre tropes to reveal the defining characteristics of a newly emergent format.
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