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Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers. The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear.

Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers. The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear. New York: Routledge, 2010(paperback version: 2012). Link zur Leseprobe Link zur Amazon-Seite Rezension von Jane Stadler in „Projections – The Journal for Movies and Mind“ Rezension von Rayd Khouloki in „Sehepunkte“ Rezension von Rolf Löchel in „Literaturkritik.de„ Rezension von Flavia Monceri in […]

The Structures of the Film Experience by Jean-Pierre Meunier: Historical Assessments and Phenomenological Expansions (Herausgegeben mit Daniel Fairfax)

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019.  Link to the open access version of the book For the first time this volume makes Jean-Pierre Meunier’s insightful thoughts on the film experience available for an English-speaking readership. Introduced and commented by specialists in film studies and philosophy, Meunier’s intricate phenomenological descriptions of the spectator’s engagement with fiction films, […]

Suggestive Verbalizations in Film: On Character Speech and Sensory Imagination

In: New Review of Film and Television Studies (erscheint 2022) Against the background of a widespread language skepticism among film theorists and practitioners, this article aims to highlight the evocative potential of spoken words in cinema. Focusing on an aesthetic device dubbed ‘suggestive verbalization,’ it demonstrates how character speech can powerfully appeal to the spectator’s […]

On Pros and Cons and Bills and Gates: The Heist Film as Pleasure

In: Film-Philosophy. Vol. 24, Nr.3, 2020. S. 304-320. This article tries to shed light on the multiple, but underrated pleasures of the heist film – a genre that has attracted numerous major directors from Jean-Pierre Melville and Stanley Kubrick to Michael Mann and Steven Soderbergh, but has received limited scholarly attention. I approach the genre […]

The Audience Effect: On the Collective Cinema Experience.

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018 (Paperback-Version: 2019). Link zur Website des Verlags. The Audience Effect is an immensely important contribution to the phenomenology of cinema. Focused on the much-neglected collectivity of the theatrical film experience, it also touches on other modes of collective viewing, and its rigorous descriptions of the structures, effects, and affects entailed […]

The Invisible Cinema. In: Giovanna Fossati/Annie van den Oever (eds.): Exposing the Film Apparatus. The Film Archive as a Research Laboratory. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016.

The Invisible Cinema. In: Giovanna Fossati/Annie van den Oever (eds.): Exposing the Film Apparatus. The Film Archive as a Research Laboratory. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016. Diesen Artikel herunterladen

Mon Roi (Maïwenn, 2016)

„Mein Ein, mein Alles“ (Mon Roi) von Maïwenn Außer Atem: In ihrem packend-verstörenden Ehedrama „Mein Ein, mein Alles“ lässt die französische Regisseurin Maïwenn den umwerfenden Vincent Cassel und die großartige Emmanelle Bercot aufeinander los. Plötzlich ist er da: der Fremde mit dem markerschütternden Blick und dem kaum zu widerstehenden Lächeln. Giorgio (Vincent Cassel) heißt er: […]