Overview

Long overlooked by scholars and critics, the history and aesthetics of German television have only recently begun to attract serious, sustained attention, and then largely within Germany. This ambitious volume, the first in English on the subject, provides a much-needed corrective in the form of penetrating essays on the distinctive theories, practices, and social-historical contexts that have defined television in Germany. Encompassing developments from the dawn of the medium through the Cold War and post-reunification, this is an essential introduction to a rich and varied media tradition.

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Author:   Larson Powell ,  Robert Shandley
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   19
ISBN:  

9781785338373

ISBN 10:   1785338374
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   19 February 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Introduction Larson Powell and Robert Shandley PART I: TECHNICAL PREHISTORY AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES Chapter 1. Contingencies and Ruptures in the Technological History of Television Wolfgang Hagen Chapter 2. Boredom, War and Paradox: German Theories of Television Larson Powell PART II: GDR TELEVISION Chapter 3. 'Just Like in the West, Except Different:' Television and its Relationship to Film in the Context of 1950s GDR Development Thomas Beutelschmidt Chapter 4. Adventures in Stagnation: Gottfried Kolditz's Unfilmed Project Zimtpiraten Evan Torner PART III: TELEVISION IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC: AUTEURIST TV Chapter 5. A challenge, maybe the greatest for a filmmaker : Televisual Perspectives on Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Martha (1974) Brad Prager Chapter 6. Nah am Fern: Kluge TV Stefanie Harris PART IV: PRESENT AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES Chapter 7. Television History in Germany: Media-Political and Media-Ethical Aspects Rudiger Steinmetz Chapter 8. Germany as TV Show Import Market Lothar Mikos Chapter 9. Heritage, Heimat, and German Historical 'Event Television': Nico Hofmann's teamWorx Paul Cooke Chapter 10. Once Upon a Crime: Tatort, Germany's Longest Running Police Procedural Barbel Goebel-Stolz Bibliography

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This collection of essays is the first of its kind in English ... this volume offers well-researched, in-depth reflection on the subject of German television ranging from historical overview to case study and spanning the history of West and East Germany, the key relationship between film and television, and the transnational dimensions of programming, technology and audience. * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

“This collection of essays is the first of its kind in English … this volume offers well-researched, in-depth reflection on the subject of German television ranging from historical overview to case study and spanning the history of West and East Germany, the key relationship between film and television, and the transnational dimensions of programming, technology and audience.” · Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

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Larson Powell is Professor of German and Film Studies at the University of Missouri - Kansas City.  His publications include the books The Technological Unconscious in Modern German Literature (2008) and a volume on post-1945 electronic media arts, The Differentiation of Modernism (2013).

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