Category Archives: Academic Publications

Mr. Schnitzelicious, the Muscle Man. Somatic Empathy and Imaginary Self-Extension in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Hard-Body Movies.

In: Simon Wendt/ Michael Butter/Patrick Keller (eds): Arnold Schwarzenegger. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Body and Image. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011. Link to the PDF file

Review of David Bordwell’s Visual Style in Cinema.

In: Frankfurter Rundschau. September 2001. The cinema explainer: “Visual Style in Cinema” is the first book by the important film scholar David Bordwell in German David Bordwell: „Visual Style in Cinema. Vier Kapitel Filmgeschichte“. Herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Andreas Rost. Verlag der Autoren. Frankfurt/Main, 2001. 212 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. Endlich. Es wurde aber auch […]

Just like IRL? On Virtual Reality Movie Theaters in the Time of Covid-19

In: In Media Res. June 19, 2020. Faced with closed movie theaters over the past months, cinephiles worldwide have bemoaned the loss of the shared cinema experience and what I have called “the audience effect.” Yet some early adopters were quick to point out an alternative: virtual reality movie theaters. Link to the article on […]

Mr. Schnitzelicious, the Muscle Man. Somatic Empathy and Imaginary Self-Extension in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Hard-Body Movies. In: Simon Wendt/ Michael Butter/Patrick Keller (Hgs): Arnold Schwarzenegger. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Body and Image. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011.

Mr. Schnitzelicious, the Muscle Man. Somatic Empathy and Imaginary Self-Extension in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Hard-Body Movies. In: Simon Wendt/ Michael Butter/Patrick Keller (Hgs): Arnold Schwarzenegger. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Body and Image. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011. Link zum PDF-Dokument “Mr. Schnitzelicious”