In: Florian Mundhenke/Thomas Weber (eds.): Kinoerfahrungen: Theorien, Geschichte, Perspektiven. Hamburg: AVINUS, 2017. pp. 209-229. Abstract: What did the great French film theorist André Bazin think of the collective experience in the cinema? What did he write about the influence co-viewers can have on the emotional engagement, the evaluation and the interpretation of a film? In […]
Category Archives: Academic Publications
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 […]
Dis/Liking Disgust. The Revulsion Experience at the Movies.
In: New Review of Film and Television Studies. Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2009. Link to the PDF
An Invention with a Future: Collective Viewing, Joint Deep Attention and the Ongoing Value of the Cinema.
In Oxford Handbook of Film Theory, edited by Kyle Stevens, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Since it is first and foremost the cinema that enables—or at least facilitates—concentrated and focused film experiences, this article makes a strong plea for the ongoing importance of the movie theater as a vital cultural practice and social institution. Although […]
Jenseits der Stille: F. W. Murnaus TABU zwischen Hollywood und Südsee, Moderne und Primitivismus und dem Ende des Stummfilm-Kinos.
In: Amerikastudien/American Studies. Vol. 47., No. 4, 2002. Link to the PDF
Große Erwartungen: Literaturverfilmungen und die Imagination des Lesers.
In: Julian Hanich/Hans-Jürgen Wulff (Hgs.): Auslassen, Andeuten, Auffüllen. Der Film und die Imagination des Zuschauers. Paderborn: Fink, 2012. pp. 239-261. Link to the PDF file
Im Wechselbad der Gefühle. Zur Die Emotionsvielfalt im filmischen Melodram – eine Mikroanalyse (with Winfried Menninghaus.)
In: Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft. Vol 56, No. 2, 2011. Link to the PDF
Anger framed: A field study on emotion, pleasure, and art. (Erstautor: Wagner, Valentin; weitere Autoren: Klein, Julian; Shah, Mira; Menninghaus, Winfried; Jacobsen, Thomas).
In: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Vol. 10, No. 2, May 2016. Authors: Wagner, Valentin; Klein, Julian; Hanich, Julian; Shah, Mira; Menninghaus, Winfried; Jacobsen, Thomas. In: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Vol 10, No. 2, 2016. S. 134-146. Link to the PDF document
Complex Staging: The Hidden Dimensions of Roy Andersson’s Aesthetics.
In: Movie – A Journal of Film Criticism. Vol. 5, 2014. Link to PDF file
Auslassen, Andeuten, Auffüllen. Der Film und die Imagination des Zuschauers – eine Annäherung
In: Julian Hanich/Hans-Jürgen Wulff (eds.): Auslassen, Andeuten, Auffüllen. Der Film und die Imagination des Zuschauers.Paderborn: Fink, 2012. Link to the PDF file