List of Figures
Introduction
Larson Powell and Robert Shandley
PART I: TECHNICAL PREHISTORY AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES
Chapter 1. Contingencies and Ruptures in the Technological History of Television
Wolfgang Hagen
Chapter 2. Boredom, War and Paradox: German Theories of Television
Larson Powell
PART II: GDR TELEVISION
Chapter 3. 'Just Like in the West, Except Different:' Television and its Relationship to Film in the Context of 1950s GDR Development
Thomas Beutelschmidt
Chapter 4. Adventures in Stagnation: Gottfried Kolditz's Unfilmed Project Zimtpiraten
Evan Torner
PART III: TELEVISION IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC: AUTEURIST TV
Chapter 5. "A challenge, maybe the greatest for a filmmaker": Televisual Perspectives on Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Martha (1974)
Brad Prager
Chapter 6. Nah am Fern: Kluge TV
Stefanie Harris
PART IV: PRESENT AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 7. Television History in Germany: Media-Political and Media-Ethical Aspects
Rudiger Steinmetz
Chapter 8. Germany as TV Show Import Market
Lothar Mikos
Chapter 9. Heritage, Heimat, and German Historical 'Event Television': Nico Hofmann's teamWorx
Paul Cooke
Chapter 10. Once Upon a Crime: Tatort, Germany's Longest Running Police Procedural
Barbel Gobel-Stolz
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