| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 234 pages) : illustrations |
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Film Europa: German cinema in an international context ; vol. 19 |
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Film Europa ; v. 19.
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| Contents |
Introduction-German television: culture, technology, or cultural technology? -- Part I-Technical prehistory and theoretical approaches -- The third image: contingencies and ruptures in the technological history of television -- Boredom, war, and paradox: German theories of television -- Part II-GDR television -- "Just like in the west, except different": television and its relationship to film in the context of 1950s GDR development -- Adventures in stagnation: Gottfried Kolditz's unfilmed project Zimtpiraten -- Part III-Television in the federal republic: auteurist TV -- "A challenge, maybe the greatest for a filmaker": televisual perspectives on Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Martha (1974) -- Nah am fern: kluge TV -- Part IV-Present and future perspectives -- Television history in Germany: media-political and media-ethical aspects -- Germany as TV show import market -- Heritage, heimat, and German historical "event television": Nico Hofmann's teamWorx -- Once upon a crime: tatort, Germany's longest running police procedural |
| Summary |
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 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Television broadcasting -- Germany -- History
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Television -- Social aspects -- Germany
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Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- Germany
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- History & Criticism.
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Television broadcasting
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Television -- Social aspects
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Powell, Larson, 1960- editor.
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Shandley, Robert R., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781785331138 |
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1785331132 |
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