German Television

Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-112-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

Reihe: Film Europa

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Powell, Larson

Shandley, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Radio- und Fernsehindustrie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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  

Rüdiger 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

Bärbel Göbel-Stolz

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Powell, Larson
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).

Shandley, Robert
Robert Shandley is Professor of German and Film Studies at Texas A&M University. His most recent books include Hogan's Heroes (TV Milestones Series, 2011) and Runaway Romances: Hollywood's Postwar Tour of Europe (2009).

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).