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• W2194921857 abstract "Quirke is the indirect offspring of two recent developments television crime drama. In one respect it appears pitched at the audience that embraced the rise of Scandinavian crime drama; Nordic noir like Wallander (2005-2013), Bron/The Bridge (2011-), and Forbrydelsen/The Killing (2007-2012). This is evident its relatively high production values, stories of institutional wrongdoing, graphic content, ambivalent conclusions and other markers of quality television. Central to these is the series origin the crime novels of John Banville (writing as Benjamin Black), which gift it an inflected literary pedigree. Like the Swedish-Danish co-production of Bron/The Bridge it is also an international drama, through the context of its production and financing. Three ninety minute episodes were co-produced by the BBC, with the Irish companies Tyrone Productions and Element Pictures, and a 450,000 [euro] production loan from the Irish Film Board (Cummins 2012). Initially slated for broadcast on RTE1 and BBC1, there were reported pre-broadcast sales to five other European countries (Barraclough 2014). The BBC element is particularly important as Quirke most comfortably fits into another relatively recent development; the increasing popularity of the British period crime drama. While this sub-genre has long been a popular television presence more recent examples like Inspector George Gently (2007-), Foyle's War (2002-2015), Endeavour (2012-) and more recently, Grantchester (2014-) all foreground a tendency to revisit the social history of the periods which they are set. Quirke also shares with most of these a preference for short runs of three or four feature length episodes, a format inaugurated by Inspector (1987-2000), of which Endeavour is a prequel, and which Foyle's War was intended to replace the schedule (Nicholas 2007: 207). These dramas are aimed at an older audience than the one for the latest Nordic noir. However, the original Swedish version of Wallander, dubbed Norse Morse by one critic (Tapper 2009: 60), would not look particularly out of place on the all-crime cable channel Alibi. Furthermore, Foyle's War, for all of its connotations of cosy crime and wartime nostalgia, initially used its period setting to revisit, revise, and disinter marginalised narratives of anti-semitism, pacifism, communism, and xenophobia (Nicholas 2007). Ireland, specifically Dublin the 1950s, would seem a prime space and place for such dramatic exploration. The decade sees the postindependence Catholic and conservative political, economic, and religious establishment at the height of its power. Kate Warner's (2009: 729) argument that in many cases the model of investigation used detective shows is set up to specifically echo that of historians seems particularly apposite the case of Quirke (Gabriel Byrne). Quirke is a pathologist who dissects the bodies of dead women to uncover which particular cultural or historical hypocrisy killed them. In common with other dramatic revisiting of the past, these discoveries often make veiled references to current preoccupations. Quirke's first episode, Christine Falls, re-treads familiar ground of abuse and illegal adoption religious run institutions. Like most amateur sleuths, Quirke is drawn into investigations seemingly against his better judgement, by a mixture of curiosity and circumstance. He is an outsider, a Heathcliff type foundling, and a non-believer adrift a sea of self-serving piety. This status is underlined the opening credits, where he appears as an indistinct outline, and the space where his body should be is filled with events and images from the upcoming episodes. The streets of Dublin appear suitably grainy, rainy and noir-like. Like his adopted brother Malachy, an obstetrician, Quirke is a doctor, but ministers at the opposite end of the life cycle. Oscar Latimer, who appears as brother of the titular missing woman the third episode, Elegy for April, is also an obstetrician. …" @default.
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