Publications
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Found Foto-Film
(2022)
In the digital age, we often encounter analog photographs as things that – after having been stored away, lost, or even thrown away – are (re)found. The fascination with such found photographs is reflected in a striking ...
MenschenAffen – AffenMenschen
(2022)
Monkeys are probably the animals with which we most readily identify when it comes to recognizing the human in the animal. Nevertheless, they symbolize, as it were, a fear of human degeneration. The particular human-animal ...
Techniken der Täuschung
(2020)
Katharina Rein's award-winning dissertation in cultural studies is devoted to stage magic in the period from 1860 to 1910 characterized by scientific and technical innovation as well as by a flourishing media culture, the ...
Wie ist Dein Leben in und um Marburg?
(2020)
The research report »How is your life in and around Marburg?« provides extensive insights into experiences of participation and exclusion in the lives of women and girls with impairments. The underlying study is based on ...
Integrationsregime in der Arbeitswelt
(2022)
Marika Pierdicca's doctoral thesis provides an ethnography of migrant self-employment in northern Italy and highlights the link between an increasing neoliberalization of labor and notions of "integration." The study ...
War in Film
(2022)
The human experience of war is not only remembered by societies through memorials, but also through the depiction of wars and important battles of respective national histories on screen. Very often, the image presented ...
The Orientalist Semiotics of Dune
(2022)
Frank Herbert’s »Dune« (1965) is considered to be one of the most successful Science Fiction novels of the 20th century. It introduces its readers to a future universe, in which the production of the most valuable resource ...
Tod im Kino
(2022)
In his doctoral dissertation, Christoph Seelinger provides an overview of strategies for legitimizing and functionalizing documentary death scenes in narrative cinema. Seelinger's chronological arc begins with the earliest ...
Medien der Sorge, Techniken des Selbst
(2021)
Can art heal? Jasmin Degeling pursues this question via a redefinition of Michel Foucault’s concepts of the technologies of the self as well as of care of the self through the lenses of media studies. For that purpose she ...
Creative Crowds
(2014)
The notion of fans as hysterical teenagers, aggressive hooligans or nerdy loners has changed drastically. Whereas Trekkies, live-action role-players or Gothics were still viewed critically a few years ago, today everyone ...