Book Review: German television studies: Cartography of a debate

Why translations matter – An introduction to Critical Studies in Television’s new section ‘In Translation’

“…Work that introduces non-English-speaking scholarship, in fact, shows how the dominance of English in TV studies is far more wide-reaching than just being the language one uses to communicate to an international audience. In their review of German TV scholarship, Schmerheim and Vermeulen (2016), for example, point to the dominance of the ‘quality TV’ debate. While they argue that the German-speaking work on ‘quality TV’ has ‘much to offer to its Anglophone cousin(s)’, particularly in the form of more rigorously narrative approaches to TV fiction, they also deplore that US television appears to be a more valued research object in German scholarship than the region’s domestic TV.…”