A Critical Companion to the German Television Series
Buch, Englisch, 343 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm
ISBN: 978-3-032-18949-3
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Netflix’s (2017-2020) is more than a time-travel thriller — it’s a dense, haunting meditation on trauma, determinism, and the tangled relationships between past, present, and future. Demanding both emotional and intellectual investment, rewards viewers with a narrative as intricate as it is thought-provoking.
This groundbreaking edited collection is the first to offer a comprehensive scholarly exploration of . Bringing together leading voices in contemporary screen studies, philosophy, and cultural theory, examines the series’ intricate narrative structure, philosophical depth, and global resonance. Across fourteen original chapters, the contributors explore ’s temporal puzzles, mythic echoes, aesthetic strategies, and cultural context—tracing how a German-language sci-fi series became a worldwide phenomenon.
How does grief shape the stories we tell about our lives? Can we ever escape the patterns set in motion by those who came before us? What kind of responsibility do we bear for the future we help create? In addressing these questions, reveals how the series speaks directly to our most urgent anxieties—ecological, existential, and emotional.
Written for fans, scholars, and anyone drawn to ’s narrative intricacies, this collection is both a critical companion and a meditation on why the series continues to resonate. Like itself, it resists closure—offering not simple resolution, but a deeper understanding of the series’ complexity and the human desire to make sense of it.
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“What We Know is a Drop”: Contextualizing Netflix’s Dark.- Part I: Time, Trauma, and Temporality.- “Everything is Now”: Dark, Trauma and the Sediments of Time.- Time Travel as a Meditation on Grief: Mourning and Memory in Dark.- Dark and the Ethics of Time Travel Television: Cyclical Temporal Loops, Non-Chronological Time and Quantum Entanglement.- Navigating the Nonlinear Narrative of Dark.- Incestuous, Intertemporal, and Intergenerational Relations: Comprehending the Incomprehensible Rules of the Dark Game.- Part II: Temporal Myths and Philosophical Mirrors.- Myth and Meaning in Dark.- Who’s Afraid of the Dark: Overcoming the Need to Know.- The Shock of the Real: Multiplicity of Self and Uncanny Time.- Part III: National Histories and Nuclear Futures.- Family and Heimat in Dark: Frustrated Fatherhood and the Burden of History.- Proliferating Risk, Stabilizing Selves: Risk, Trust, and the Nuclear Timescape in Dark.- Toxic Nostalgia in Dark.- Part IV: Mediating Dark: Aesthetics, Platform, and Form.- Patterns of Flux: Costume Design in Dark.- Auteurs in the Dark.
