J. (Julian) Hanich, Prof
Professor of Film Studies
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Field/Discipline
Expertise
Julian Hanich is the author of three monographs: The Audience Effect: On the Collective Cinema Experience (Edinburgh UP), Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear (Routledge) and Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: City Girl (Edition Text + Kritik). With Martin Rossouw, he edited the award-winning volume What Film Is Good For: On the Values of Spectatorship (University of California Press, 2023). Additionally, he was co-responsible for a series other edited volumes and journal issues, among others The Structures of the Film Experience by Jean-Pierre Munier: Historical Assessments and Phenomenological Expansions (Amsterdam UP, with Daniel Fairfax); an issue of Studia Phaenomenologica on ‘Film and Phenomenology’ (with Christian Ferencz-Flatz), Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (Edition Text + Kritik, with Michael Wedel), or Auslassen, Andeuten, Auffüllen: Der Film und die Imagination des Zuschauers (Fink, with Hans Jürgen Wulff). His research focuses on film aesthetics, cinematic emotions, film and imagination, film phenomenology, the collective cinema experience, and the beautiful in film. He is currently working on an NWO-funded group project entitled Cinematic Beauty: Exploring the Experience of a Major Aesthetic Phenomenon.
Other positions
Ancillary work activities: occasional film reviews and essays (e.g., for Filmbulletin)
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