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Schwerpunkte: analytisch-hermeneutisch orientierte Medien-Kulturwissenschaft mit den Schnittpunkten Filmwissenschaft, Kunstgeschichte, Philosophie
Derzeitige Forschung: Film und Postmoderne – Zyklische Heldenreise (Joseph Campbell) – Feministische Filmtheorie (Mulvey, Creed) – New Queer Cinema – Occult, Gothic und Folk Horror — Poetik der Transgression – Postkoloniale Theorie
Key figures: Richard Slotkin, Béla Balázs, Cindy Sherman, Marina Abramovic, Piero Manzoni, Robert Mapplethorpe, Madonna, David Cronenberg, Brian De Palma, Claire Denis, Ingmar Bergman, René Magritte, Arnold Böcklin, Klaus Theweleit, Akira Kurosawa, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, Leni Riefenstahl, Kenneth Anger, Andrej Tarkowskij, Hermann Hesse, Aleister Crowley, Lotte Eisner, Gilles Deleuze, Roland Barthes, Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, Judith Butler, Sylvia Plath, Roland Topor, J. G. Ballard, Yukio Mishima, Stan Brakhage, Vivian Sobchack, André Pieyre de Mandriargues, Nico, Bob Mizer, Catherine Breillat, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luchino Visconti, Vivian Sonchack, Martine Beugnet, Lotte Eisner
Film: Claire Denis, Ingmar Bergman, Luis Buñuel, Andrej Tarkowskij, Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ōzu, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, Brian De Palma, Robert Bresson, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, R. W. Fassbinder, David Cronenberg, Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Agnès Varda, Agnès Godard, Joseph Bernard, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Leni Riefenstahl, Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Federico Fellini, Abbas Kiarostami, Bruno Dumont, Harry Kümel, Nicolas Roeg, J. P. Melville, Jim Jarmusch, Wong Kar Wai, Robert Altman, Sergei Eisenstein, Michael Haneke, Olivier Assayas, Francis Coppola, Truffaut, Jane Campion, Todd Haynes, Céline Sciamma, Julia Ducournau, Jean Rollin, Akira Kurosawa, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Liliana Cavani, Gus Van Sant, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Chris Marker, Lars von Trier, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Roman Polanski, Andrzej Zulawski, Alain Resnais, Derek Jarman, Ken Russell, John Cassavetes, Renato Polselli, Powell/Pressburger, Sam Peckinpah, Chantal Akerman, Catherine Breillat, Howard Hawks, Luchino Visconti, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Andrzej Wajda
Maler/Grafiker/Performance-Kunst/Fotografie: Francis Bacon, Giorgio de Chirico, Arnold Böcklin, Hilma af Klint, René Magritte, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, J.-M. Basquiat, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Kees van Dongen, Jan Vermeer van Delft, Paul Gauguin, Egon Schiele, Hermann Nitsch, Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramovic, Boris Lurie, Bernd Becher, Raoul Hausmann, Gerhard Richter, Tracey Emin, Pipilotti Rist, Kurt Kren, Günter Brus, Sarah Lucas, Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bob Mizer, Gary Winogrand, Brassai, Piet Mondrian, Marcel Duchamp, Kandinsky, E. L. Kirchner, Hopper,
Literatur/Philosophie/Kulturtheorie: J. G. Ballard, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse, Georges Bataille, Roland Topor, Jean Genet, Gilles Deleuze, Haruki Murakami, Fjodor Dostojewski, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, Mario Praz, H. P. Lovecraft, Yukio Mishima, Julia Kristeva, Herman Melville, William Burroughs, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Hegel/Lacan/Marx, Linda Williams (Body Genres), Steven Shaviro, Klaus Theweleit
Musik: Patti Smith, Madonna, Radiohead, PJ Harvey, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Aphex Twin, William Orbit, Sweet Trip, Björk, Pink Floyd, Sigur Rós, Nico, Tame Impala, Joy Division, The Smiths, Boards of Canada, Gang of Four, My Bloody Valentine, Velvet Underground, Violent Femmes, The Doors, Curtis Mayfield, Nirvana, Tricky, Angelo Badalamenti, Elliott Smith, The Go Betweens, David Bowie, Lamb, SOPHIE, Bernard Herrmann, Pino Donaggio, Wilco, Duster, Jesus & Mary Chain, Charli XCX, Miles Davis, Portishead, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Leather Nun, Hole, Brian Eno, Beck, Mica Levi, Alain Goraguer, Swans, Young Marble Giants, NIN
Fotografie: Robert Mapplethorpe, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bob Mizer, Gary Winogrand, Brassai
Weitere Interessen: Populärkultur, Mythos/Moderne, Genretheorie, Ethik, queer codes, gender transgression and performance (doing gender), Foto-/Videokunst, Digital Art, Mystizismus, Spiritualität, Amerikanistik, Nouveau Roman, Postmoderne Literatur, Nuberu bagu
"There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner."
— David Lynch