¿Tendiendo puentes?: la comida como marcador de identidad en series de televisión transnacionales

This article compares the use of food and the eating habits of the protagonists of season one of the Danish-Swedish crime drama television series Bron/Broen (2011) and its remakes English-French The Tunnel (2013), and the American The Bridge (2013). By highlighting what and how these detective duos eat (or do not eat), the- se television series portray interesting incidents in which individuals/ nations bond through food. We argue that it ist hrough food that these series challenge or sub- vert national and gender stereotypes in a number of ways. We investigate the way in which the first two depict societies that are not too dissimilar to each other, while the last one tends to reinforce national cliches, thus constituting what may be read as a missed opportunity to tackle transnational issues.