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Book Synopsis Audiences for contemporary German film and television are becoming increasingly transnational, and depictions of German cultural history are moving beyond the typical post-war focus on Germany’s problematic past. Entertaining German Culture explores this radical shift, building on recent research into transnational culture to argue that a new process of internal and external cultural reabsorption is taking place through areas of mutually assimilating cultural exchange such as streaming services, an increasingly international film market, and the import and export of Anglo-American media formats.
Trade Review “This is a state-of-the-art introduction and overview of current issues in German film and, even more particularly, television culture.” • Stephen Brockmann, Carnegie Mellon University
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Entertaining German Culture?
Stephan Ehrig, Benjamin Schaper and Elizabeth Ward
Part I: Transculturating Screen(ed) Heritage
Chapter 1. The New German Television and the Newer German Film: A History of Industry Disruption and Synergy
Randall Halle
Chapter 2. Reenacting Propaganda: Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and the Anti-Nazi War Film
A. Dana Weber
Chapter 3. From Shakespeare to Goethe: German Golden Age Literature and Silver Screen Literacy in Trans/national Times
Bridget Levine-West
Part II: Transnational Streaming Ambitions
Chapter 4. Deterritorializing the Stasi in Deutschland 83/86/89
Elizabeth Ward
Chapter 5. History in the Mainstream: Charité
Carol Anne Costabile-Heming
Chapter 6. Mapping Berlin: Space, Trauma, and Transnationalism in Im Angesicht des Verbrechens and Sense8
Felipe Garrido Espinoza
Part III: The Transnationalization of German Cultural History
Chapter 7. Producing Denationalizing Television: The Netflixization of the New Berlin City Genre in Dogs of Berlin
Benjamin Nickl
Chapter 8. Now Mainstreaming: Queer Phenomenology, Techno, and the Transnational in Beat and Futur Drei
Tom Smith
Chapter 9. Looking into the Abyss: The Transnational Puzzle in Dark
Lorena Silos Ribas
Filmography
Index
