Entertaining German Culture

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).

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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