Babylon Berlin, German Visual Spectacle, and Global Media Culture

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by Hester Baer and Jill Suzanne Smith

Type: Studies
Subject: One Film > Babylon Berlin (TV Series)
Keywords: TV Series, global, Germany
Publishing date: 2024 (March 07, 2024)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Collection: Visual Cultures and German Contexts
Language: English

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Paperback • 272 pages
6 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-350-37005-0

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the authors:
Deborah Ascher Barnstone is Professor and Head of the School of Architecture, Design, and Planning, at the University of Sydney, Australia. Barnstone is a licensed architect in Germany, holds a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University, and holds a PhD from TU Delft.Her recent monograph works include Beyond the Bauhaus: Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-1933 (2016), Art and Resistance in Germany (2018), and The Break with the Past: Avant-garde Architecture in Germany, 1910-1925 (2019). She co-edits Bloomsbury's Visual Cultures and German Contexts book series.Thomas O. Haakenson is Associate Professor in Critical Studies and Visual Studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Oakland, USA. He is coeditor of the book series Visual Cultures and German Contexts and has been published widely, including in New German Critique, Cabinet, Rutgers Art Review, German Studies Review, and the anthologies Legacies of Modernism, Spectacle, Representations of German Identity, as well as Memorialization in Germany Since 1945. He has received awards and fellowships from the United States Fulbright Program, the Social Science Research Council, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, and the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies.

Press Reviews:
"Required reading for any discerning fan of the television show or student of the culture, history, and politics of late Weimar. Hester Baer and Jill Smith have brought together an impressive group of scholars to show the critical potential of interdisciplinary work in film and media studies." ―Sabine Hake, University of Texas at Austin, USA

"Babylon Berlin has brought international attention to German series productions. This volume helps us understand why. Exploring all aspects of the production: from the crime novels that serve as inspiration, to the tourists who search Berlin for their favorite location; from the images to the funding, Baer and Smith unite a transdisciplinary group of scholars whose focus on Babylon Berlin sets new standards in film and television scholarship." ―Randall Halle, Klaus W. Jonas Professor of German Film and Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh, USA

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