Facing complex crime: Investigating contemporary German crime fiction on television

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Facing complex crime: Investigating contemporary German crime fiction on television. / Rothemund, Kathrin.
in: Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook, Jahrgang 9, Nr. 1, 2011, S. 127-142.

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title = "Facing complex crime: Investigating contemporary German crime fiction on television",
abstract = "The article, after giving a short overview of the history and characteristics of German crime fiction on television, elaborates on recent tendencies in this area. Furthermore, a short reference concerning the resurrection of the gangster film genre in German cinema is made before focusing more specifically on the textual analysis of the TV crime serials KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst/KDD – Berlin Crime Squad and Im Angesicht des Verbrechens/In Face of the Crime. Through critically discussing the dimension of {\textquoteleft}Quality TV{\textquoteright} and proposing, instead, to use the concept of {\textquoteleft}narrative complexity{\textquoteright}, the transformative potential of complex generic narrations is emphasized. Focusing on aspects of multiple interwoven and interacting story arcs, a high number of dominant and developing round characters, a clear visual style, a tendency towards world making, self-referentiality and (generic) intertextuality, differentiating normative messages, as well as innovation and emergence, a textual analysis of the two abovementioned TV crime serials follows in order to exemplify recent tendencies in German crime fiction. ",
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author = "Kathrin Rothemund",
year = "2011",
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journal = "Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook",
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