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).

“This is a state-of-the-art introduction and overview of current issues in German film and, even more particularly, television culture.” • Stephen Brockmann, Carnegie Mellon University

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Entertaining German Culture? Stephan Ehrig, Benjamin Schaper and Elizabeth WardPart I: Transculturating Screen(ed) HeritageChapter 1. The New German Television and the Newer German Film: A History of Industry Disruption and SynergyRandall 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 Sense8Felipe 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