Prof. Dr. Margrit Tröhler

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Current research projects

Project leader	Project title
Blanchet	Rendering Emotions: Expanding Current Theories of the Representation and Arousal of Emotion in Film.
Cista	Showing the Unrepresentable. On the Deictic Structure of the Cinematic Image in Claude Lanzmann's Film SHOAH
De Masi	“Made in China”. The Chinese audio-visual animation. History, styles and models of diffusion in China.
Gerber	Cinema, Crisis and public sphere: Cinema-going in the realm of social and political debates in films and on film in Switzerland during World War I
Goldberg	Strange Switzerland. The Self-Critical Representation of Switzerland in contemporary Swiss Cinema 1964-2004
Kirsten	Theory and History of Cinematic Realism as a Mode of Ostentation
Küttel	Multilayered Diegetic Realities
Lento	Discovering the Actor: the Cinema Performer in Europe During 1910s and Early 1920s.
Trenka	Jazz Dance in Black and White – 1920s-1940s
Vorbrugg	I - Films. Self-description from the New American Cinema until today
Zutavern	Film and Resistance: Social Movement Film and Video as Political Practice

Completed research projects

Project leader	Project title
Christen	Documentation of film related material from the Dr.-Martin- Schlappner-collection (follow-up project)
	Forms and Dimensions of the Cinematic Excess
Courcoux	Of Machines and Men. Quests of Masculinity and Technological Modernity in Contemporary American Cinema
Gertiser Riniker	Education Films in Switzerland 1921-1964 (= project nr.3 of "Views and Perspectives. Towards a History of Documentary Films in Switzerland 1896 to 1964"
	False Shame. Strategies of persuasion in Public Health Promotion Films on fighting venereal diseases 1915-1935
Hertach	Alpine Landscapes as Emotional Landscapes. On the Aesthetical and Emotional Role of the Swiss Alps in Cinema
Jacques	Tourism as a Topic of Swiss Documentary Films
Keitz	"Richard Oswald: Films from the 1920's (= part of the international research and restoration project "Richard Oswald. Director and Producer)
Kulle	Trash Cinema. Film between Reception and Aesthetics
Marx	Figures of Evil in Films
Rall	Close Encounters. On the Relationship between Cinema and Psychoanalysis
Rohrer	Mexican Low Budget Films in their Transnational Context”
Sahli	Film Studies for Highschool Teachers and other Professionals
Spiegel	"The Estranged Screen. Towards a Poetics of Science Fiction Film"
Stauffer Stauffer von Keitz	Surface Phenomena
Taylor	The Thrills of Conspiracy. On the Theory and History of Paranoia Films
von Keitz	Exhibiting Film - Films in Installations. Intermedial Approaches to the Dispositive "Exhibition"
	Moving Visions – Graphic Dreams. Towards a History of Swiss Animation Films
Zimmermann	Industrial Films and Films in Commission
	Geigy Design. Graphics, Advertising and Corporate Design of the J.R. Geigy Chemical Corporation 1950-1970