Current Research Projects

Project Leader Project Title
Echle Ornamental Surfaces, Ornamental Spaces: Performing the Ornament in the German Silent Cinema.
Köhler Dancing bodies, dancing images. For a Poetics of Dance in Film and Film Theory (1895 - 1960)
Tuch Constructing War Time Experience: Transnational Circulation of Narrative and Visual Stereotypes in European Feature Film Between 1943 and 1949.
Wiegand The tradition of the "Schaulust"-dispositif and the generation of magic - ostentatious aspects in early cinema