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Review of Eugenie Brinkema: The Forms of the Affects. Durham: Duke UP, 2014.

In: Projections. The Journal for Movies and Mind. Vol. 9, No. 1, 2015. In this review I criticize Eugenie Brinkema’s recent monograph “The Forms of the Affects” (2014) as a remarkably frustrating work of remarkably frustrating brilliance. Link to the PDF document

Experiencing Extended Point-of-View Shots: A Film-Phenomenological Perspective on Extreme Character Subjectivity.

In: Subjectivity Across Media: Interdisciplinary and Transmedial Perspectives. (eds.) Maike Sarah Reinerth and Jan-Noel Thon. New York: Routledge, 2016. Download this article

Laughter and Collective Awareness: The Cinema Auditorium as Public Space

Laughter and Collective Awareness: The Cinema Auditorium as Public Space In: NECSUS – European Journal of Media Studies (Autumn 2014) Abstract This article looks at how the collective experience of laughter in the movie theater is related to the idea of the cinema as a public space. Through the non-verbal expression of laughter the audience […]

Judge Dread: What We Are Afraid of When We Are Scared at the Movies.

In: Projections – The Journal for Movies and Mind. Vol. 8, No. 2, Winter 2014. Abstract: In this text I explore the question what we are actually afraid of when we are scared at the movies. It is usually claimed that our fear derives from our engagement with characters and our ‘participation’ through thought, simulation […]