In: The Structures of the Film Experience by Jean-Pierre Meunier: Historical Assessments and Phenomenological Expansions, edited by Hanich Julian and Fairfax Daniel, 336-52. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. Link to the PDF
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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 […]
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 […]
Reflecting on Reflections: Cinema’s Complex Mirror Shots.
In: Martine Beugnet, Allan Cameron, Arild Fetveit (eds.): Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP., 2017 Abstract: This article investigates the effects mirrors in films can have on the composition of a filmic image, the staging of a scene and the viewing activities of the spectators. It discusses four such effects: […]
Omission, Suggestion, Completion: Film and the Imagination of the Spectator.
In: Screening the Past: An International Electronic Journal of Visual Media and History, (43), 2018. Link to the electronic Journal
“Every Theory Needs a Reference to Lived Experience”: An Interview with Jean-Pierre Meunier.
In: The Structures of the Film Experience by Jean-Pierre Meunier: Historical Assessments and Phenomenological Expansions, edited by Hanich Julian and Fairfax Daniel, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. Link to the PDF
[Omission, Suggestion, Completion. The film and the viewer’s imagination – an approximation] In: Julian Hanich / Hans-Jürgen Wulff (ed.): Omission, Suggestion, Completion. The film and the viewer’s imagination. Paderborn: Fink, 2012.
Auslassen, Andeuten, Auffüllen Der Film und die Imagination des Zuschauers – eine Annäherung. In: Julian Hanich/Hans-Jürgen Wulff (Hgs.): Auslassen, Andeuten, Auffüllen. Der Film und die Imagination des Zuschauers. Paderborn: Fink, 2012. Link to the PDF
[Great expectations for film adaptations and the imagination of the reader] In: Julian Hanich / Hans-Jürgen Wulff (eds.): Omission, Suggestion, Completion. The film and the viewer’s imagination. Paderborn: Fink, 2012.
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. Link to the PDF
(Miss-)Vergnügen am Ekel. Zu Phänomenologie, Form und Funktion des Abscheulichen im Kino. In: Montage/AV. Vol. 21, No. 2, 2012.
Pleasure in disgust On the phenomenology, form and function of the hideous in cinema In: Montage/AV. Vol. 21, No. 2, 2012. Link to the PDF
Art schema effects on affective experience: The case of disgusting images (co-author, first author Valentin Wagner)
In: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Volume 8, Issue 2, 2014. Abstract: Can we experience depictions of repulsive objects more positively when we watch them as part of a work of art? We addressed this question by using a scenario approach in a laboratory setting designed to activate two different cognitive schemata: participants […]