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Traversing the Øresund: The Transnational Urban Region in Bron/Broen

This chapter analyses the Nordic Noir television series, Bron/Broen (The Bridge, 2011–2018) as an audiovisual representation of the transnational Danish-Swedish Øresund region. My argument is that Bron/Broen, while a tangible product of the political and planned vision of a transnational region, is at the same time paradoxically critical of the Øresund imaginary of borderlessness and integration. Through the episodic nature of the television drama format, Bron/Broen articulates images of the transnational urban region as a fractured place that is composed of fragmented, albeit imbricated, spaces that emphatically contest the euphoric utopian vision of binational collaboration and cross-border urban energy invoked by Øresund planners in the late 1990s