Marcus Stiglegger - Böcker

In the fading atmosphere of the New Hollywood era, William Friedkin – the wunderkind director with an Academy Awardfor his cop drama, The French Connection (1971) who then scored an even bigger success with The Exorcist (1973) – began work on what would prove to be the most controversial film of his career: Cruising (1980). In the process he established a template for a sub-genre, the serial killer thriller, that would thrive long after his film had left theatres, having caused widespread offence among the very audience he'd hoped to appeal to, via a campaign mobilised by the counter-culture press. As such, Cruising can be read as a bitter farewellto the seventies and its cinema and industry. This Devil's Advocate dives deep into the phenomenon that is Cruising, examining its creative context and its protagonists, as well as examining its ongoing popularity as it turns 40 in 2020.

In the fading atmosphere of the New Hollywood era, William Friedkin – the wunderkind director with an Academy Awardfor his cop drama, The French Connection (1971) who then scored an even bigger success with The Exorcist (1973) – began work on what would prove to be the most controversial film of his career: Cruising (1980). In the process he established a template for a sub-genre, the serial killer thriller, that would thrive long after his film had left theatres, having caused widespread offence among the very audience he'd hoped to appeal to, via a campaign mobilised by the counter-culture press. As such, Cruising can be read as a bitter farewellto the seventies and its cinema and industry. This Devil's Advocate dives deep into the phenomenon that is Cruising, examining its creative context and its protagonists, as well as examining its ongoing popularity as it turns 40 in 2020.

Die Miniserie Holocaust, deren Ausstrahlung 1978 in den USA ca. Chomskys Holocaust aus der Tradition der TV-Familiensagas (z.B. Roots) her und untersucht nah am Material, welches Bild der historischen Ereignisse diese Fernsehserie und spätere Produktionen inszenieren.

Das vorliegende Handbuch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über den Stand der Filmgenreforschung. Es werden sowohl die Definitionen und die Begriffsgeschichte umfassend dargestellt, verschiedene Theorien und Ansätze, historische und lokale Perspektiven vorgestellt, als auch einzelne Filmgenres wie Western, Kriminalfilm, Gangsterfilm, Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Komödie, Melodram, Abenteuerfilm, Musical, Kriegsfilm bis hin zum erotischen Film in Einzelstudien analysiert.In dieser Multiperspektivik bildet der Band die Phänomenologie von Filmgenres quer durch die Filmgeschichte als einen umfassenden Diskurs ab, der durch Beiträge von führenden Vertreterinnen und Vertretern der deutschsprachigen Genreforschung nah an internationalen Filmbeispielen diskutiert wird.

Filmwissenschaftliche Analyse und die Methodik der Kulturgeographie werden in diesem neuartig perspektivierten Band zusammengeführt, um die medialen Topographien und Raumentwürfe des narrativen Films zu erkunden.

Die Seduktionstheorie definiert den Film im weiteren Sinne als ein Medium der Verführung, basierend auf dem französischen Begriff der séduction. Es handelt sich um einen von kontinentaler Philosophie und klassischer Filmtheorie geprägten theoretischen Ansatz, mit dem ein dreistufiges Analysemodell verknüpft ist.

sei es in der Literatur, im Spielfilm, der Fernseh- bzw. Der Band geht der Frage nach, wie sich negative Zukunftsvorstellungen, aber auch kontrafaktische Vergangenheitsentwürfe medienspezifisch darstellen, wie sie darüber hinaus im Zuge der Medienkonvergenz größere Erzähluniversen herausbilden.

The seduction-theory defines film in a broader sense as a medium of seduction, based on the French concept of séduction. The book introduces the theoretical foundations and, using various classical and contemporary examples from film history, presents a genuine method of film analysis.

Mouth, lips, tongue, and teeth—speech, pain, and screech—eating, swallowing, spouting off, and spitting—lust and passion: the oral cavity is an extremely stimulating zone of the body, in the truest sense of the word. Science and medicine are not the only fields that have investigated it, though. From antiquity to the present day, art and cultural history have done the same. The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg has pursued the wide-ranging path of this motif’s history in order to present the first comprehensive show about the mouth in the fall of 2020. The companion publication offers thematically dense essays that not only allow the reader to delve into the topic, but also go far beyond the exhibition itself. The mouth, its inventory and abilities, are closely examined through film history, ethnology, literary theory, and architecture.