Robert A. Saunders

Professor in the Department of History, Politics and Geography at Farmingdale State College-SUNY and the author of Geopolitics, Northern Europe, and Nordic Noir: What Television Series Tell Us About World Politics (Routledge, 2020). He is a member of the editorial board of Akademisk kvarter and an affiliate partner of the Centre for Transnational Media Research at Aarhus University. For more information about Robert A. Saunders, click here.

Contributions to nordics.info

Dark photo, evening. Big buildings placed close to the harbour. Windows from the buildings light up.

09 April 2021 - Robert A. Saunders

Listen to a podcast on interplay between popular culture and the ’real’ world.

Black and white photo of a smart phone screen

28 February 2019 - Robert A. Saunders

The mobile phone, and more specifically the ‘smart’ phone, has emerged as a key visual, dramaturgical and narrative element of Nordic noir television…

black and white photo of a cracked corner in a church

11 February 2019 - Robert A. Saunders

Cracks work on multiple levels when screened in Nordic noir television series and are never incidental. Visually, the crack draws the viewer in,…

Robert A. Saunders

Contributions to nordics.info

Television and Geopolitics: A Conversation on the Nordics

The smart phone in Nordic noir TV series

Cracks in Nordic noir TV series