Publications
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Staging the Dead
(2015)
The body is one of the basic media that form and communicate gender. How important gender is for the perception of an individual becomes especially clear by looking at the exhibition of a dead body. Having nothing left ...
Western Apocalyptic Time and Personal Authentic Time
(2019)
The concept of time is culturally dependent. During different periods in the history of Western culture, differing conceptions of times competed for primacy, sometimes contradicting one another, sometimes complementing ...
“What God has joined...” Editorial
(2018)
What is marriage all about? How is it nowadays connected to religious traditions? This issue will search for answers.
Book Review: Monika Leisch-Kiesl: ZeichenSetzung / BildWahrnehmung. Toba Khedoori: Gezeichnete Malerei
(2017)
Published in Vienna: Verlag für Moderne Kunst 2016, 347 pages, ISBN: 978-3-903131-29-3
Interlude. Paths of Destiny. Rosalía’s Spiritual Car Ride in AUNQUE ES DE NOCHE
(2020)
A critical review of Rosalia's music video for "Aunque es de noche" that focusses on media-transmitted, personal spirituality, female strength and the amalgamation of religious imageries.
On (Dang) Quesadillas and Nachos. Mexicans, Mexican-Americans, and Religion in the Films of Jared Hess
(2019)
Across his cinema, the US, Mormon director Jared Hess has represented the Mexican Other in ambiguous ways that affirm the humanity of the US’s southern neighbors while at the same time signaling them as irreconcilably ...
Parabolic Transcendence in Time and Narrative
(2020)
Subjectivity, memory, identity, and the invisible connections between individuals are all conspicuous within filmmaker Shane Carruth’s two award-winning indie sci-fi films, Primer (Shane Carruth, USA, 2004) and Upstream ...
Pedigree of Dualistic and Non-Dualistic Media: Grasping Extramedial Meanings
(2016)
The article provides suggestions concerning the cultural relevance and embeddedness of dualist and non-dualist media and demonstrates that the presence or absence of certain types of media has extra-medial relevance that ...
On the History and Hermeneutics of Comics
(2017)
What is a comic? The simple answer states that a comic is a drawn story that is picture- rather than text-oriented and told serially. In other words, a comic is a type of illustration. Realism is not its goal; rather a ...
Representations of Religion and Culture in Children’s Literature. An Analysis of othering Processes in Texts and Illustrations
(2018)
Literature is an important medium for representing and communicating world views and values. This article focuses on the representation of culture and religion and reveals constructions of identities in children’s literature. ...
Reality and Paternity in the Cinema of the Dardennes
(2016)
The Dardennes’ filmic production aims at restoring the missing link between human beings and the world that have been progressively undermined during the ultimate development of late-capitalist society. This contribution ...
Religion, Belief and Medial Layering of Communication: Perspectives from Studies in Visual Culture and Artistic Productions
(2015)
The paper analyses the relationship between religious practices, belief and the media based on the medial layering of communication. The arguments are situated within the fields of studies in visual culture and cultural ...
Religion and Communication Spaces
(2015)
Following the reflection initiated in his book The Spaces of Communication, Roger Odin suggests a new distinction between physical communication spaces and mental communication spaces (spaces that we have inside us). The ...
TV Series Review. HERRENS VEJE (RIDE UPON THE STORM, created by Adam Price)
(2020)
For nine generations, all men of the Krogh family have been pastors. Johannes’s two sons, Christian (Simon Sears) and August (Morten Hee Andersen), were also meant to follow their ancestors’ path, but ... Although the ...
Trauma and Conformity
(2018)
This article discusses the psychological aspects of two documentaries about violence: THE ACT OF KILLING by Joshua Oppenheimer and DAS RADIKAL BÖSE (THE RADICAL EVIL) by Stefan Ruzowitzky. These are the concepts ‘Trauma’ ...
Orientalische Bilder und Klänge
(2021)
Als sich Ende der 1920er Jahre in den USA und Europa der Tonfilm durchsetzte, erkannten ägyptische Geschäftsleute dessen Potenzial für die arabische Welt. Sie erwarben innovative Tontechnik aus Deutschland und schickten ...
Revisiting the Relevance of Conceptualism of Godard’s film
(2018)
Jean-Luc Godard’s filmmaking is analyzed as a conceptual art, as in agreement with his most accomplished role as a film critic, not a classical filmmaker. In his 1970 manifesto, Godard argues that 1) we must make political ...
Marriage and its representations in Classical Hollywood Comedy (1934-1945). Stanley Cavell, the concept of skepticism and Kierkegaard's legacy
(2018)
This article explores the questions of marriage and divorce as discussed by Stanley Cavell in his study of Classical Hollywood comedies, dubbing what he considered as a popular subgenre of the American comedy of the thirties ...
The Problem of Evil in DC Universe Animated Movies, 2007–2016. DC Multiverse, an Ironic Illustration of Leibniz’s Theodicy?
(2017)
This article explores the question of evil and its metaphysical and moral implications in a series of animated movie adaptations of the DC Universe produced since 2006. The contemporary evolution of the medium, called the ...
The Historical Jesus and the Christ of Early Cinema: A Complicated Relationship
(2019)
When at the onset of the twentieth century, the influential German theologian Albert Schweitzer published a historiographical account of the ‘historical Jesus’, a discrete number of silent films devoted to the life and ...
Postlude. “And God Is Never Far Away”. Or the Sum of this Issue
(2020)
This Postlude or Epilogue works as a summary of the issues insights and opens a new perspective at the end.
Apocalypse as critical dystopia in modern popular music
(2019)
The last book of the New Testament has inspired countless narratives and cultural productions. In the realm of popular music the Apocalypse was embraced as synonymous of imminent catastrophe, generating a dystopian discourse. ...
Approaching Religious Symbols in the Public Space: Contemporary Art and Museums as Places of Negotiation?
(2015)
This essay responds to Sigrid Schade’s contribution by outlining the multilayered meaning-making processes deployed by the use of religious symbolism in visual culture. Referring in a concise way to a selected example of ...
Charivari or the Historicising of a Question. The Irrelevance of Romantic Love for the Audio-Visual Performance of Marriage in Bern in the 18th and 19th Century
(2018)
Citing Oscar Wilde, the editors of this volume ask the question “who, being loved, is poor?” in their call for papers. On a meta-theoretical level, this article aims at contextualising this question and its citation socially. ...
Editorial: The Relevance of Comics and their Screen Adaptations
(2017)
Editorial of JRFM 2017, 3/1 : Drawn Stories, Moving Images. Comic Books and their Screen Adaptations
Film review: ON BODY AND SOUL (Ildikó Enyedi). HU 2017
(2017)
Interview with Ildikó Enyedi, directrice of ON BODY AND SOUL (HU 2017)
