Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia provides significant insight into the changing nature of civil society under the Scandinavian welfare state through the lens of popular culture. Nestingen argues that the growth and visibility of pupular cuture have been at the heart of the development of heterogenous "publics" in Scandinavia, demonstrating that novels and films have mobilized readers and viewers, serving as a preeminent site for debates over individualism, collectivity, national homogeneity, gender, and transnational relations. Andrew Nestingen is an assistant professor of Scandinavian studies at the University of Washington.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Popular and Social Transformation in Scandinavian Fictions
1. The New Popular Culture: Popular Fictions and Their Publics
2. Medium Concept: Scandinavian Genre and Art Film Hybrids
3. The Melodrama of Demand: Cultural Politics of the Scandinavian Melodrama
4. Johanna Sinisalo's Monsters: Popular Culture and Heterogeneous Publics
5. Autobiography and the Police: Life Writing and Its Publics
6. The Burned-Out Policeman: Henning Mankell's Transnational Police Procedural
Epilogue
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index