Larson Powell is Professor of German and Film Studies at the University of Missouri - Kansas City.  His publications include the books The Technological Unconscious in Modern German Literature (2008) and a volume on post-1945 electronic media arts, The Differentiation of Modernism (2013).

• List of FiguresIntroductionLarson Powell and Robert ShandleyPART I: TECHNICAL PREHISTORY AND THEORETICAL APPROACHESChapter 1. Contingencies and Ruptures in the Technological History of TelevisionWolfgang HagenChapter 2. Boredom, War and Paradox: German Theories of TelevisionLarson PowellPART II: GDR TELEVISIONChapter 3. ‘Just Like in the West, Except Different:’ Television and its Relationship to Film in the Context of 1950s GDR DevelopmentThomas BeutelschmidtChapter 4. Adventures in Stagnation: Gottfried Kolditz’s Unfilmed Project ZimtpiratenEvan TornerPART III: TELEVISION IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC: AUTEURIST TVChapter 5. “A challenge, maybe the greatest for a filmmaker”: Televisual Perspectives on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Martha (1974)Brad PragerChapter 6. Nah am Fern: Kluge TVStefanie HarrisPART IV: PRESENT AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVESChapter 7.  Television History in Germany: Media-Political and Media-Ethical Aspects  Rüdiger SteinmetzChapter 8. Germany as TV Show Import MarketLothar MikosChapter 9. Heritage, Heimat, and German Historical ‘Event Television’: Nico Hofmann’s teamWorxPaul CookeChapter 10. Once Upon a Crime: Tatort, Germany’s Longest Running Police ProceduralBärbel Göbel-StolzBibliography

“This collection of essays is the first of its kind in English … this volume offers well-researched, in-depth reflection on the subject of German television ranging from historical overview to case study and spanning the history of West and East Germany, the key relationship between film and television, and the transnational dimensions of programming, technology and audience.” · Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

Larson Powell is Professor of German and Film Studies at the University of Missouri - Kansas City.  His publications include the books The Technological Unconscious in Modern German Literature (2008) and a volume on post-1945 electronic media arts, The Differentiation of Modernism (2013).

• List of FiguresIntroductionLarson Powell and Robert ShandleyPART I: TECHNICAL PREHISTORY AND THEORETICAL APPROACHESChapter 1. Contingencies and Ruptures in the Technological History of TelevisionWolfgang HagenChapter 2. Boredom, War and Paradox: German Theories of TelevisionLarson PowellPART II: GDR TELEVISIONChapter 3. ‘Just Like in the West, Except Different:’ Television and its Relationship to Film in the Context of 1950s GDR DevelopmentThomas BeutelschmidtChapter 4. Adventures in Stagnation: Gottfried Kolditz’s Unfilmed Project ZimtpiratenEvan TornerPART III: TELEVISION IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC: AUTEURIST TVChapter 5. “A challenge, maybe the greatest for a filmmaker”: Televisual Perspectives on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Martha (1974)Brad PragerChapter 6. Nah am Fern: Kluge TVStefanie HarrisPART IV: PRESENT AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVESChapter 7.  Television History in Germany: Media-Political and Media-Ethical Aspects  Rüdiger SteinmetzChapter 8. Germany as TV Show Import MarketLothar MikosChapter 9. Heritage, Heimat, and German Historical ‘Event Television’: Nico Hofmann’s teamWorxPaul CookeChapter 10. Once Upon a Crime: Tatort, Germany’s Longest Running Police ProceduralBärbel Göbel-StolzBibliography

“This collection of essays is the first of its kind in English … this volume offers well-researched, in-depth reflection on the subject of German television ranging from historical overview to case study and spanning the history of West and East Germany, the key relationship between film and television, and the transnational dimensions of programming, technology and audience.” · Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

Larson Powell is Professor of German and Film Studies at the University of Missouri - Kansas City.  His publications include the books The Technological Unconscious in Modern German Literature (2008) and a volume on post-1945 electronic media arts, The Differentiation of Modernism (2013).

• List of FiguresIntroductionLarson Powell and Robert ShandleyPART I: TECHNICAL PREHISTORY AND THEORETICAL APPROACHESChapter 1. Contingencies and Ruptures in the Technological History of TelevisionWolfgang HagenChapter 2. Boredom, War and Paradox: German Theories of TelevisionLarson PowellPART II: GDR TELEVISIONChapter 3. ‘Just Like in the West, Except Different:’ Television and its Relationship to Film in the Context of 1950s GDR DevelopmentThomas BeutelschmidtChapter 4. Adventures in Stagnation: Gottfried Kolditz’s Unfilmed Project ZimtpiratenEvan TornerPART III: TELEVISION IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC: AUTEURIST TVChapter 5. “A challenge, maybe the greatest for a filmmaker”: Televisual Perspectives on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Martha (1974)Brad PragerChapter 6. Nah am Fern: Kluge TVStefanie HarrisPART IV: PRESENT AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVESChapter 7.  Television History in Germany: Media-Political and Media-Ethical Aspects  Rüdiger SteinmetzChapter 8. Germany as TV Show Import MarketLothar MikosChapter 9. Heritage, Heimat, and German Historical ‘Event Television’: Nico Hofmann’s teamWorxPaul CookeChapter 10. Once Upon a Crime: Tatort, Germany’s Longest Running Police ProceduralBärbel Göbel-StolzBibliography

“This collection of essays is the first of its kind in English … this volume offers well-researched, in-depth reflection on the subject of German television ranging from historical overview to case study and spanning the history of West and East Germany, the key relationship between film and television, and the transnational dimensions of programming, technology and audience.” · Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television