Research and interests

Main research areas

Prof. Dr. Daniel Illger

·       Genre poetics of audiovisual media

·       Horror, fantasy, science fiction

·       Experiential modalities of the nonhuman

·       Aesthetics theory

 

Current research projects:

·       The road as a figure of thought

·       Revenge in popular culture

·       Poetics of the wound

·       The posthuman hell

 

Elizabeth Neumann

The following interests are with respect to the medium of video games:

·       Media aesthetics

·       (Human-) Animal Studies and Ecocriticism

·       Posthuman concepts

·       Feminist philosophy

 

Thomas Scherer

·       Media aesthetics

·       Utilitarian films

·       Poetics of audiovisual persuasion

·       Audiovisual metaphor

·       Digital methods for film analysis

·       Audience emotions and politics/community

 

Lucia Wiedergrün

·       Media aesthetics

·       Concepts of temporality in contemporary cinema

·       Surveillance and film

·       Nature in film

Current projects

MORES is a Horizon 2020 project that aims to investigate how moral emotions, especially positive ones, contribute to the stabilisation of political identities and how they, especially negative ones, trigger division and polarisation. MORES aims to better understand the political role of moral emotions in order to develop a normative-analytical framework to inform democratic decision-making on how moral emotions should interact with values, policies and political practices. Within the project, Timm Beichelt and Daniel Illger enquire into the display and construction of emotions in TV series with political content.

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Media

  • Interview by by Larissa Niesen for the article “Franz Bieberkopf ist schwarz,” published in Tonic Magazin (05.07.2020)
  • Interview by Sylvia Stam for the Katholische Medienzentrum, Switzerland (23.10.17) “Fantasy fragt nach Hoffnung angesichts der alles verschlingenden Dunkelheit”
  • Interview by Christine Lötscher for the periodical “Buch und Maus” (2/13) about the animated film: “Medium der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten” (together with Michael Lück)
  • Interview by Markus Metz and Georg Seeßlen for the program “Die Kunst des wahrhaftigen Scheins. Pedro Almodóvar und seine Filme.” Broadcast on WDR 5 Scala on 04.08.09 at 12pm and 9pm

Coordination:

Susen Pönitzsch