Babylon Berlin, German Visual Spectacle, and Global Media Culture (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Baer, Hester; Suzanne Smith, Jill

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this collection address the German television series Babylon Berlin and explore its unique contribution to contemporary visual culture.

Since its inception in 2017 the series, a neo-noir thriller set in Berlin in the final years of the Weimar republic, has reached audiences throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas and has been met with both critical and popular acclaim. As a visual work rife with historical and contemporary citations Babylon Berlin offers its audience a panoramic view of politics, crime, culture, gender, and sexual relations in the German capital.

Focusing especially on the intermedial and transhistorical dimensions of the series, across four parts-Babylon Berlin, Global Media and Fan Culture; The Look and Sound of Babylon Berlin; Representing Weimar History; and Weimar Intertexts-the volume brings together an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars to critically examine various facets of the show, including its aesthetic form and citation style, its representation of the history and politics of the late Weimar Republic, and its exemplary status as a blockbuster production of neoliberal media culture.

Considering the series from the perspective of a variety of disciplines, Babylon Berlin, German Visual Spectacle, and Global Media Culture is essential reading for students of film, TV, media studies, and visual culture on German Studies, History, and European Studies programmes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350370081
• Artikelnr.: 69658868

Autorenporträt

Hester Baer is Professor of German and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Maryland, USA. She is the author of Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language (2009), German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism (2021), and a volume for the series German Film Classics on Ula Stöckl's The Cat Has Nine Lives (2022). She currently serves as co-editor of The German Quarterly. Jill Suzanne Smith is Associate Professor of German and a contributing faculty member in Cinema Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, and Urban Studies at Bowdoin College, USA. She is the author of Berlin Coquette: Prostitution and the New German Woman 1890-1933 (2013) and a volume editor for the Bloomsbury series A Cultural History of Prostitution .

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction
Hester Baer (University of Maryland
College Park
USA) and Jill Suzanne Smith (Bowdoin College
USA) Part One: Babylon Berlin
Global Media
and Fan Culture 1. Quality TV Drama with Transnational Appeal: Industry Discourses on Babylon Berlin and the Changing Television Landscape in Germany
Florian Krauß (University of Siegen
Germany) 2. Defective Detective Meets Sassy Secretary
Plot Ensues: Babylon Berlin
TV Tropes
and the Cultural Implications of Pop Narratology
Doria Killian (University of North Carolina
Asheville
USA) Part Two: The Look and Sound of Babylon Berlin 3. Fashion for a Global Audience: 1920s Glamour and Grit
Mila Ganeva (Miami University
Ohio
USA) 4. Liquid Space and Digital Aesthetics in Babylon Berlin
Michael Sandberg (University of California
Berkeley) and Cara Tovey (University of California
Los Angeles
USA) 5. Recreating the Soundscape of Weimar: Sound Technologies
Trauma
and the Sonic Archive
Abby Anderton (Baruch College and CUNY Graduate Center
USA) 6. From Kahn to Kollwitz: Exploring the Significance of Art and Visual Culture in Babylon Berlin
Camilla Smith (University of Birmingham
UK) Part Three: Representing Weimar History 7. "Modernity in Babylon: The Media as Proponents of Modern Life in Babylon Berlin
" Jochen Hung (Utrecht University
Netherlands) 8. Journalists and the Media as Proponents of Modern Life
Javier Samper Vendrell (University of Pennsylvania
USA) 9. Reading Queerness in Babylon Berlin
Darcy Buerkle (Smith College
USA) Part Four: Weimar Intertexts 10. Blood May Footage and the Archive Effect: The Political Ambivalence of Babylon Berlin as Appropriation Film
Sara F. Hall (University of Illinois
Chicago
USA) 11. Glitter and Post-Punk Doom: Babylon Berlin through the Lens of 1980s West Berlin
Julia Sneeringer (Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center
USA) 12. Siegfried
Screen Memories
and the Fall of the Weimar Republic
Carrie Collenberg-González (Portland State University
USA) and Curtis L. Maughan (Pomona College
USA) Afterword: Hester Baer and Jill Suzanne Smith Index