Mr. Schnitzelicious, the Muscle Man. Somatic Empathy and Imaginary Self-Extension in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Hard-Body Movies.

In: Simon Wendt/ Michael Butter/Patrick Keller (eds): Arnold Schwarzenegger. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Body and Image. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011. Link to the PDF file

Just like IRL? On Virtual Reality Movie Theaters in the Time of Covid-19

In: In Media Res. June 19, 2020. Faced with closed movie theaters over the past months, cinephiles worldwide have bemoaned the loss of the shared cinema experience and what I have called “the audience effect.” Yet some early adopters were quick to point out an alternative: virtual reality movie theaters. Link to the article on […]

Mr. Schnitzelicious, the Muscle Man. Somatic Empathy and Imaginary Self-Extension in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Hard-Body Movies. In: Simon Wendt/ Michael Butter/Patrick Keller (Hgs): Arnold Schwarzenegger. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Body and Image. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011.

Mr. Schnitzelicious, the Muscle Man. Somatic Empathy and Imaginary Self-Extension in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Hard-Body Movies. In: Simon Wendt/ Michael Butter/Patrick Keller (Hgs): Arnold Schwarzenegger. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Body and Image. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011. Link zum PDF-Dokument “Mr. Schnitzelicious”

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

Eine Reise ans Ende der Nacht: Moderne und Modernisierungsaengste in Friedrich Wilhelm Murnaus “Sunrise”.

In: Heinz-Peter Preusser: Späte Stummfilme. Ästhetische Innovation im Kino 1924-1930. Marburg: Schüren, 2017. pp. 267-300. Link to the PDF

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

Reprint: Im Wechselbad der Gefühle. Zur Die Emotionsvielfalt im filmischen Melodram – eine Mikroanalyse. (with Winfried Menninghaus).

In: Gunter Gebauer/Markus Edler (eds.): Sprachen der Emotionen. Kultur, Kunst, Gesellschaft. Frankfurt/Main: Campus, 2014. Link to the PDF