Publications
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The Banality of Ghosts. Searching for Humanness with Joshua Oppenheimer in THE ACT OF KILLING
(2018)
In The Act of Killing, (Joshua Oppenheimer, ID, DK 2012), Joshua Oppenheimer searches for humanness by assessing the rituals, routines and grammar of former perpetrators who played a role during the 1965/6 genocide in ...
Cross-media Transmission Processes: Marian Figures in TODO SOBRE MI MADRE (Pedro Almodóvar, ES 1999)
(2015)
This paper builds on aspects of the cultural studies perspective that understands art itself as a method of cultural analysis. This will be exemplified by focusing on how film as a cultural technique for framing and reframing ...
Deconstructing Gilgul, Finding Identity. Captain America and the Winter Soldier in a Judaistic Perspective
(2017)
Captain America and Bucky, characters who appear in Marvel Comics, seem to be temporally displaced. The article scrutinizes that temporal displacement, comparing it with the Judaistic concept of gilgul – the transmigration ...
The End of Desire
(2020)
This article explores the soteriological significance of desire in Сталкер (STALKER, Andrei Tarkovsky, RU 1979). At the heart of the film, deep within a paranormal and psychosomatic frontier called the Zone, is a space ...
Emulating Science. The Rhetorical Figures of Creationism
(2017)
This article compares forms of visual argumentation in the scientific study of evolution and Young-Earth Creationism, arguing that secular forms of scientific representation have affected the way creationists visually ...
Just Popular Entertainment or Longing for a Posthuman Eden?. The Apocalypse in Margaret Atwood‘s MaddAddam Trilogy
(2019)
In the context of the ecological crisis, tales of the apocalypse have become a regular feature of the contemporary cultural imaginary, be it in popular feature films, non-fictional texts, or dystopian novels. Margaret ...
Jerusalem between Political Interests and Religious Promise
(2020)
This article focuses on the opening ceremony of the new US-Embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. By analysing a live transmission of the ceremony, it aims at showing how Jerusalem is constructed as a "holy city" through ...
Is Superman a God?
(2020)
Some Remarks on the Jewish Life of Jesus (Toledot Yeshu) in Early Modern Europe
(2019)
The Jewish Life of Jesus (Toledot Yeshu) is perhaps one of the most infamous retellings of the gospel narrative of the pre-modern era. The present essay explores its reception and circulation of among both Jews and Christians ...
Someday our gods will be friends
(2020)
This article reflects on the recent tv-series ‘Vikings’ from a practical-theological perspective. We deal with the series as a serious expression of the relationship between film and religion. The narrative, reception, ...