Publications
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Intercultural Perspectives on DAS RADIKAL BÖSE and THE ACT OF KILLING. Similarities and Dissimilarities in Coping with Trauma in Indonesia and Germany, in Southeast Asia and Europe
(2018)
This article offers a close reading of DAS RADIKAL BÖSE (RADICAL EVIL, Stefan Ruzowitzky, DE 2013) and THE ACT OF KILLING (Joshua Oppenheimer, ID / USA 2012) – two very different films – that nevertheless provide images ...
Interlude. "But are as the angels which are in heaven" (Mark 12:25). Reimagining a Gender-Ambiguous Heaven in Dorian Electra’s ADAM & STEVE
(2020)
The American singer and songwriter Dorian Electra is a queer phenomenon. Their dandy appearance – the latest album is called Flamboyant (2017) – goes hand in hand with the criticism of toxic masculinity and gender binarism. ...
Interlude. Combating Gender Norms with a Lipstick-Gun. Lady Gaga's JESUS
(2020)
"Judas" is a track on Lady Gaga's album Born this way which was released in 2011. Given that it attracted a lot of attention not only in popular media but also in several academic works, this might indicate the potential ...
Shadows of the Bat. Constructions of Good and Evil in the Batman Movies of Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan
(2017)
The superhero narrative is typically premised on the conflict between the hero and the villain, the mythical struggle between good and evil. It therefore promotes a Manichaean worldview where good and evil are clearly ...
Voicing the Technological Body: Some Musicological Reflections on Combinations of Voice and Technology in Popular Music
(2016)
The article deals with interrelations of voice, body and technology in popular music from a musicological perspective. It is an attempt to outline a systematic approach to the history of music technology with regard to ...
Visionary Critique: Gender, Self and Relationship in Rosetta and Two Days, One Night
(2016)
The films of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne stand out for their complex, multi-dimensional female and male characters whose representation disrupts gender stereotypes in numerous ways, both in how the characters themselves ...
The Body and Voice of God in the Hebrew Bible
(2016)
In both Judaism and Christianity the question as to whether God has a body is sensitive and contested terrain. The answer now tends to be ‘no’ and yet the most straightforward interpretation of numerous Hebrew Bible passages ...
Biblical Narratives in INTERSTELLAR (US/GB 2014)
(2020)
The present paper examines the presence of biblical narratives and myths in contemporary cultural productions based on an analysis of the science fiction film Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, US 2014). Interstellar follows ...
Book Review. Elisha McIntyre, Religious Humor in Evangelical Christian and Mormon Culture
(2020)
At first sight one might think that religion and humor contradict each other or at least are not a fruitful pair. The study Religious Humor in Evangelical Christian and Mormon Culture by Elisha McIntyre, an Australian ...
Beyond Cinematic Stereotypes: Using Religion to Gender Film Characters in Alternative Ways
(2016)
In films, religious characters are often gendered in quite traditional ways, but there are some notable exceptions. This article discusses two Scandinavian films that partly break this mold. The analysis illustrates how ...
Dharma and the Religious Other in Hindi Popular Cinema
(2020)
This essay examines common representations of religious minorities in Hindi popular cinema within the context of dominant post-Independence Indian religious and political ideologies—from a religiously pluralist secular ...
Images of the Muslim Woman and the Construction of Muslim Identity: The Essentialist Paradigm
(2016)
This article argues that much of the postmodern discourse on the Muslim woman and her veil is symptomatic of what I call the “essentialist paradigm”. The world is seen through the prism of a group’s religious/cultural ...
Methodological Challenges by (New) Media
(2015)
The classical concept of media analysis depends to a large extent on linearity, but modern interactive media are mostly non-linear. Roger Odin has suggested a method for working with such interactive media; however, the ...
SinnRäume – An Exhibition on Contemporary Religion in Germany. Exhibition Practice as a Medium in Religious Studies
(2017)
In the research and exhibition project SinnRäume, students at the Philipps University Marburg examined the materialization of contemporary religion, exploring how religion is practiced at home, how a domestic room becomes ...
Anatomy of a Wedding: Examining Religiosity, Feminism, and Weddings in GREY’S ANATOMY
(2018)
Medical drama "Grey’s Anatomy" features weddings as pivotal life events, with 14 unions portrayed over the program’s 13 seasons on ABC. This paper is a synthetic approach combining communication, gender studies, and rigorous ...