Entertaining German Culture
Contemporary Transnational Television and Film
Will be published approx. on 15. June 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-83695-698-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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 UniversityMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index; 44 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
424 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83695-698-3 (9781836956983)
DOI
10.3167/9781805390558
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Persons
Stephan Ehrig is a Lecturer in German at the University of Glasgow. He previously taught at the universities of Bristol, Durham, and University College Dublin. He is the author of The Dialectical Kleist (Transcript, 2018) and is coeditor of The GDR Today: New Interdisciplinary Approaches to East German History, Memory and Culture (Peter Lang, 2018) and Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood: Integration, Community, and Cohabitation (Leuven UP, 2022).
Content
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: Charite
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
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: Charite
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