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

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

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 […]