German Television : : Historical and Theoretical Perspectives / / ed. by Larson Powell, Robert Shandley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Beutelschmidt, Thomas,; Cooke, Paul,; Göbel-Stolz, Bärbel,; Hagen, Wolfgang,; Harris, Stefanie,; Mikos, Lothar,; Powell, Larson,; Prager, Brad,; Shandley, Robert,; Steinmetz, Rüdiger,; Torner, Evan,
• HerausgeberIn: Powell, Larson,; Shandley, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Film Europa ; 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction. German Television: Culture, Technology, or Cultural Technology? -- Part I. Technical Prehistory and Theoretical Approaches -- 1. The Third Image: Contingencies and Ruptures in the Technological History of Television -- 2. Boredom, War, and Paradox: German Theories of Television -- Part II. GDR Television -- 3. “Just Like in the West, Except Diff erent”: Television and Its Relationship to Film in the Context of 1950s GDR Development -- 4. Adventures in Stagnation: Gott fried Kolditz’s Unfi lmed Project Zimtpiraten -- Part III. Television in the Federal Republic: Auteurist TV -- 5. “A Challenge, Maybe the Greatest for a Filmmaker”: Televisual Perspectives on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Martha (1974) -- 6. Nah am Fern: Kluge TV -- Part IV. Present and Future Perspectives -- 7. Television History in Germany: Media-Political and Media-Ethical Aspects -- 8. Germany as TV Show Import Market -- 9. Heritage, Heimat, and German Historical “Event Television”: Nico Hofmann’s teamWorx -- 10. Once Upon a Crime: Tatort, Germany’s Longest Running Police Procedural -- Bibliography -- Index