Babylon Berlin, German Visual Spectacle, and Global Media Culture [Paperback]

The essays in this collection address the German television seriesBabylon Berlinand 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 citationsBabylon Berlinoffers 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 ofBabylon 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 Cultureis essential reading for students of film, TV, media studies, and visual culture on German Studies, History, and European Studies programmes.

Hester Baeris Professor of German and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Maryland, USA. She is the author ofDismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language(2009),German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism(2021), and a l³&