Abstract: While experiencing natural beauty is a key appeal of the cinema and other moving-image media, academic film scholarship has rarely paid attention to it. In this article I will use the widespread motif of the gently rustling wind as a pars pro toto to make some general remarks about the experience of natural beauty […]
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A Plea for Mise en Esprit
In this brief essay for the online journal “In Media Res” I propose the concept of “mise en esprit” as a companion term to “mise en scène” for film studies. Mise en esprit refers to the phenomenon when, provoked by evocative aesthetics, our embodied mind complements mentally what a film affords us suggestively and thereby […]
Shared or Spread? On Boredom and Other Unintended Collective Emotions in the Cinema
In: Dylan Trigg (ed.), Atmospheres and Shared Emotions. London: Routledge, 2021. Link to the PDF file
How Many Emotions Does Film Studies Need? A Phenomenological Proposal
In: Projections. Vol. 15, No. 2, 2021. Link to the PDF file
Des Knaben wunder Zorn. Über das Motiv des Vater-Sohn-Konflikts in Dominik Grafs Der Skorpion (1997)
In: Chris Wahl/Jesko Jockenhövel/Michael Wedel/Marco Abel (eds.): Im Angesicht des Fernsehens. Der Autor Dominik Graf. München: Edition Text + Critique, 2012. Link to the PDF
Toward a Poetics of Cinematic Disgust.
In: Film-Philosophy. Vol. 15, No. 2, 2011. Link to the PDF file
What Is Film Phenomenology? (with Christian Ferencz-Flatz).
In: Studia Phaenomenologica. Vol. 16, 2016. Download the article here
Towards a Psychological Construct of Being Moved (Ko-Autor, Erst-Autor: Winfried Menninghaus).
Menninghaus, W., Wagner, V., Hanich, J., Wassiliwizky, E., Kuehnast, M. & Jacobsen, T. In: PLoS ONE. 4. June 2015. p. 1-33 Link to the article Abstract: The emotional state of being moved, though frequently referred to in both classical rhetoric and current language use, is far from established as a well-defined psychological construct. In a series […]
Wut im Kino. Anmerkungen zu einem vernachlässigten Alltagsphänomen.
In: Augenblick. Konstanzer Hefte zur Medienwissenschaft. No. 56/57. Marburg: Schüren, 2013. pp. 72-93. Link to the PDF
Why We Like to Watch Sad Films. The Pleasure of Being Moved in Aesthetic Experiences.
In: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. March 2014.