Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers. The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear. New York: Routledge, 2010(paperback version: 2012). Link to Leseprobe Link to Amazon-Seite Review from Jane Stadler in “Projections – The Journal for Movies and Mind” Review from Rayd Khouloki in “Sehepunkte” Review from Rolf Löchel in “Literaturkritik.de“ Review from Flavia Monceri in […]
Category Archives: Academic Publications
Cinematic Shocks. Recognition, Aesthetic Experience, and Phenomenology.
In: Amerikastudien/American Studies. Vol. 57, No. 4, 2012. p. 581-602. Link to PDF file
Phänomenologie und Filmanalyse.
In: Handbuch Filmanalyse (edited by Malte Hagener/Volker Pantenburg), 2018. Link to the PDF
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 (forthcoming in 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 […]
On Pros and Cons and Bills and Gates: The Heist Film as Pleasure
In: Film-Philosophy. Vol. 24, No.3, 2020. pp. 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 […]
Abruptly Altered Horizons: Covid-19, Momentous Events and a Not so Rare Phenomenon in Historical Reception Studies.
In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft: Open Media Studies Blog May 28, 2020 In this brief essay I draw attention to the effects momentous historical events – such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the Brexit referendum or the 9/11 attacks – can have on a film viewer’s interpretive horizon. How we interpret films shot long before the event […]
“Stummfilm und Diegese” (with Malte Hagener). In: Dieter Mersch/Stephan Günzel (Hgs.): Bild. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2014.
In: Dieter Mersch/Stephan Günzel (Hgs.): Bild. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2014. Link to the PDF
“Tonfilm und Realismus” (with Malte Hagener). In: Dieter Mersch/Stephan Günzel (Hgs.): Bild. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2014.
In: Dieter Mersch/Stephan Günzel (Hgs.): Bild. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2014. Link to the PDF
Beyond Sadness: The Multi-Emotional Trajectory of Melodrama (with Winfried Menninghaus.)
In: Cinema Journal. Vol. 56, No. 4, 2017 Abstract: In this article we investigate the astonishing variety of emotions that a brief scene in a film melodrama can evoke. We thus take issue with the reductive view of melodrama that limits this genre’s emotional effects to sadness, pity, and tear-jerking potential. Through a close analysis […]