Publications
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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 ...