In: New Review of Film and Television Studies (erscheint 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 spectator’s […]
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On Pros and Cons and Bills and Gates: The Heist Film as Pleasure
In: Film-Philosophy. Vol. 24, Nr.3, 2020. S. 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 […]
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. Mai 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 […]
„Stummfilm und Diegese“ (mit Malte Hagener). In: Dieter Mersch/Stephan Günzel (Hgs.): Bild. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2014.
In: Dieter Mersch/Stephan Günzel (Hgs.): Bild. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2014. Link zum PDF-Dokument
„Tonfilm und Realismus“ (mit Malte Hagener). In: Dieter Mersch/Stephan Günzel (Hgs.): Bild. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2014.
In: Dieter Mersch/Stephan Günzel (Hgs.): Bild. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2014. Link zum PDF-Dokument
Beyond Sadness: The Multi-Emotional Trajectory of Melodrama (mit Winfried Menninghaus.)
In: Cinema Journal. Vol. 56, Nr. 4, 2017 Abstrakt: 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 (Hgs.): Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP., 2017 Abstrakt: 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 zum elektronischen Journal
Great Expectations: Cinematic Adaptations and the Reader’s Disappointment.
In: New Literary History 49 (3): 425–46. Link zum PDF-Dokument
“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, herausgegeben von Hanich Julian and Fairfax Daniel, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. Link zum PDF-Dokument