Review of: Anna-Caterina Walk: Das Andere im Tatort. Migration und Integration im Fernsehkrimi. Marburg: Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag 2011.

Authors

  • Patricia Piberger

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/1021

Keywords:

Medien, Intersektionalität, Kultur, Migration, Repräsentation, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

In her concise publication, Anna-Caterina Walk dedicates herself to the TV crime series Tatort using a media studies and cultural studies perspective. Based on three specific episodes, she analyzes how the ‘other’ is medially represented and constructed in the series. She aims at questioning the self-evidence of specific representations and their meanings. In doing so, she searches, above all, for non-stereotypical or destabilizing images and, at the same time, demands a more critical approach to constructions of difference regarding identity within the individual Tatort episodes. Considerations of the gendered ‘other/s’ are treated only marginally and generally remain superficial, particularly since the author focuses on cultural otherness.

Author Biography

Patricia Piberger

Freie Wissenschaftlerin in Berlin, gelegentliche Mitarbeit bei gender-politik-online.de (geschlechterpolitisches Portal für die Sozialwissenschaften)

Published

2012-08-16

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