Unter den Filmen Friedrich Wilhelm Murnaus ist „City Girl“ (1930) der vielleicht unbekannteste – und doch gibt es viele Gründe, diesen klaren, schnörkellosen und schönen Film für ein breiteres Publikum wieder zu entdecken. Nach verworrener Entstehungsgeschichte wurde Murnaus dritte und letzte Hollywoodproduktion – kurz nach Einführung des Tonfilms noch als Stummfilm gedreht – schnell auf […]
Category Archives: Books
Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear.
Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers. The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear. New York: Routledge, 2010(paperback version: 2012). Link to Leseprobe Link to Amazon-Seite Review from Jane Stadler in “Projections – The Journal for Movies and Mind” Review from Rayd Khouloki in “Sehepunkte” Review from Rolf Löchel in “Literaturkritik.de“ Review from Flavia Monceri in […]
The Structures of the Film Experience by Jean-Pierre Meunier: Historical Assessments and Phenomenological Expansions (Herausgegeben mit Daniel Fairfax)
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. Link to the open access version of the book For the first time this volume makes Jean-Pierre Meunier’s insightful thoughts on the film experience available for an English-speaking readership. Introduced and commented by specialists in film studies and philosophy, Meunier’s intricate phenomenological descriptions of the spectator’s engagement with fiction films, […]
The Audience Effect: On the Collective Cinema Experience.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018 (paperback version: 2019). Link to the publisher’s website. The Audience Effect is an immensely important contribution to the phenomenology of cinema. Focused on the much-neglected collectivity of the theatrical film experience, it also touches on other modes of collective viewing, and its rigorous descriptions of the structures, effects, and affects […]
Auslassen, Andeuten, Auffüllen. Der Film und die Imagination des Zuschauers (co-edited with Hans Jürgen Wulff).
Paderborn: Fink, 2012. Link to Publisher’s Website Link to Amazon.de Review by Hans Helmut Prinzler Review by Thomas Ochs Report on the radio station Deutschlandfunk (“Studiozeit – Aus Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften”) on the conference that preceded the book