CAN THERE BE QUALITY GLOBAL MASS CULTURE: "SCANDINAVIAN NOIR" - ANCIENT SCANDINAVIAN SAGA ON MODERN LAD (ARTICLE 3)
The third article continues the study of a very important issue that causes numerous disputes: whether there can be a quality global mass culture. The purpose of this article is a comparative analysis of the modern Scandinavian detective, called "Scandinavian Noir", with the ancient Scandinavian Saga. The purpose of the predetermined objectives of the study: to examine on the novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø «The Snowman» what kind of Saga is the basis of the novel, than the "Scandinavian Noir" is different from actually "Noir" and what are the features of the construction scene work, his style have in common "Nordic Noir" with the old Norse Saga and significantly different, for all their resemblance, from the "film Noir" which is only entertaining a black detective, a detective-horror, for which there is not the high nature of the Saga, but total pessimism, life's decay, dissatisfaction with everyone and everything. However, in the "black detective" there is a positive feature: «And we are not all that bad!»