In: Filmstil: Perspektivierungen eines Begriffs (herausgegeben von Julian Blunk/Tina Kaiser/Dietmar Kammerer/Chris Wahl). Munich: Edition Text + Kritik, 2016. Link zum PDF-Dokument
Kategorie-Archive:Aufsätze
Mise en Esprit: One-Character Films and the Evocation of Sensory Imagination
In: Paragraph. Vol. 43, Nr. 3, 2020. S. 249-264 This article starts out by introducing the category of the ‘one-character film’ — that is, narrative feature films that rely on a single onscreen character. One-character films can range from extremely laconic movies entirely focused on the action in the narrative here-and-now via highly talkative films […]
Laugh Is in the Air. Eine Typologie des Lachens im Kino.
In: Nach dem Film. Nr. 12, Oktober 2010. Link zum „Laugh Is in the Air“
Oh, Inventiveness! Oh, Imaginativeness! Precious Cinema and Its Discontents: A Rant.
In: Unwatchable, Ithaca, NY: Rutgers University Press, 2019: S. 263-268. Link zum PDF-Dokument
Laughter and Collective Awareness: The Cinema Auditorium as Public Space
In: NECSUS – European Journal of Media Studies (Herbst 2014) Abstrakt This article looks at how the collective experience of laughter in the movie theater is related to the idea of the cinema as a public space. Through the non-verbal expression of laughter the audience ‘constructs’ a public space the viewers may not have been […]
Kino, Theater, Fernsehen: André Bazins Publikumstheorie.
In: Florian Mundhenke/Thomas Weber (Hgs.): Kinoerfahrungen: Theorien, Geschichte, Perspektiven. Hamburg: AVINUS, 2017. S. 209-229. Abstrakt: Was hielt der große französische Filmtheoretiker André Bazin von der kollektiven Erfahrung im Kino? Was schrieb er über den Einfluss, den Mitzuschauer auf das emotionale Engagement, die Bewertung und die Interpretation eines Films haben können? Kurz gesagt: Was war seine […]
Judge Dread: What We Are Afraid of When We Are Scared at the Movies.
In: Projections – The Journal for Movies and Mind. Vol. 8, Nr. 2, Winter 2014. Abstrakt: In this text I explore the question what we are actually afraid of when we are scared at the movies. It is usually claimed that our fear derives from our engagement with characters and our ‘participation’ through thought, simulation […]
Dis/Liking Disgust. The Revulsion Experience at the Movies.
In: New Review of Film and Television Studies. Vol. 7, Nr. 3, September 2009. Link zum PDF-Dokument
An Invention with a Future: Collective Viewing, Joint Deep Attention and the Ongoing Value of the Cinema.
In Oxford Handbook of Film Theory, edited von Kyle Stevens, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Since it is first and foremost the cinema that enables—or at least facilitates—concentrated and focused film experiences, this article makes a strong plea for the ongoing importance of the movie theater as a vital cultural practice and social institution. Although […]
Jenseits der Stille: F. W. Murnaus TABU zwischen Hollywood und Südsee, Moderne und Primitivismus und dem Ende des Stummfilm-Kinos.
In: Amerikastudien/American Studies. Vol. 47., Nr. 4, 2002. Link zum PDF-Dokument