Heather Gumbert
Biographic Data
| ID | 4787035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Gumbert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Gumbert |
| SIGNATURE | GUMBERT H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6084-7399 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Alternate Endings
This article uses the example of the Starz television series Counterpart to suggest some preliminary hypotheses about the enduring appeal and important implications of telling “Cold War” stories through contemporary television. It draws on and contributes to historiographies of the postwar world, Cold War Germany, media history, historical memory, and recent work in critical media industries studies to explore a number of interrelated questions a…
The Deutschland Series
How do you explain the Cold War to a generation who did not live through it? For Jörg and Anna Winger, co-creators and showrunners of the Deutschland series, you bring it to life on television. Part pop culture reference, part spy thriller, and part existential crisis, the Wingers’ Cold War is a fun, fast-paced story, “sunny and slick and full of twenty-something eye candy.” A coproduction of Germany's UFA Fiction and Sundance TV in the United St…
TV Socialism by Anikó Imre
Reviewed by: TV Socialism by Anikó Imre Heather L. Gumbert Imre, Anikó – TV Socialism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. Pp. 315. Timely and innovative, this comparative history of television across the Eastern Bloc in the socialist and post-socialist periods uses television as a lens to destabilize post-Cold War narratives of socialism and its demise, while also using the socialist example to revise the way we think about television. Imre has…
Envisioning Socialism
Envisioning Socialism examines television and the power it exercised to define the East Germans’ view of socialism during the first decades of the German Democratic Republic. In the first book in English to examine this topic, Heather L. Gumbert traces how television became a medium prized for its communicative and entertainment value. She explores the difficulties GDR authorities had defining and executing a clear vision of the society they hope…
Split Screens? Television in East Germany, 1952–89
In June 2002 the 'Friends of the German Film Archive', a non-profit group and operator of the Arsenal movie house on Potsdamer Platz, held a symposium and film screening on the subject of East and West German television crime thrillers from the 1950s and early 1960s. The meeting was well attended both by media scholars and the wider public, some of whom remembered viewing the shows when they were first aired. The discussion, based for the most pa…
The Deutschland Series
How do you explain the Cold War to a generation who did not live through it? For Jörg and Anna Winger, co-creators and showrunners of the Deutschland series, you bring it to life on television. Part pop culture reference, part spy thriller, and part existential crisis, the Wingers’ Cold War is a fun, fast-paced story, “sunny and slick and full of twenty-something eye candy.” A coproduction of Germany's UFA Fiction and Sundance TV in the United St…
Split Screens? Television in East Germany, 1952–89
In June 2002 the 'Friends of the German Film Archive', a non-profit group and operator of the Arsenal movie house on Potsdamer Platz, held a symposium and film screening on the subject of East and West German television crime thrillers from the 1950s and early 1960s. The meeting was well attended both by media scholars and the wider public, some of whom remembered viewing the shows when they were first aired. The discussion, based for the most pa…
Envisioning Socialism
Envisioning Socialism examines television and the power it exercised to define the East Germans’ view of socialism during the first decades of the German Democratic Republic. In the first book in English to examine this topic, Heather L. Gumbert traces how television became a medium prized for its communicative and entertainment value. She explores the difficulties GDR authorities had defining and executing a clear vision of the society they hope…
TV Socialism by Anikó Imre
Reviewed by: TV Socialism by Anikó Imre Heather L. Gumbert Imre, Anikó – TV Socialism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. Pp. 315. Timely and innovative, this comparative history of television across the Eastern Bloc in the socialist and post-socialist periods uses television as a lens to destabilize post-Cold War narratives of socialism and its demise, while also using the socialist example to revise the way we think about television. Imre has…
The Deutschland Series
How do you explain the Cold War to a generation who did not live through it? For Jörg and Anna Winger, co-creators and showrunners of the Deutschland series, you bring it to life on television. Part pop culture reference, part spy thriller, and part existential crisis, the Wingers’ Cold War is a fun, fast-paced story, “sunny and slick and full of twenty-something eye candy.” A coproduction of Germany's UFA Fiction and Sundance TV in the United St…
Alternate Endings
This article uses the example of the Starz television series Counterpart to suggest some preliminary hypotheses about the enduring appeal and important implications of telling “Cold War” stories through contemporary television. It draws on and contributes to historiographies of the postwar world, Cold War Germany, media history, historical memory, and recent work in critical media industries studies to explore a number of interrelated questions a…
History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Cold war (3 works) · German (3 works) · Media Studies and Communication (3 works) · Politics (3 works)