Publications

Monographs

Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture. Berkeley: U of California P (forthcoming, 2024).

Kolumbus in den USA: Vom Nationalhelden zur ethnischen Identifikationsfigur. Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag, 2014.

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  • Reviews: AmerIndian Research 2014/3: 211-12; Wiener Zeitung (06.10.2014); Historische Zeitschrift. 301 (2015): 435-37.

Edited Volumes & Journal Issues

Ed. with Ruth Mayer. "Backwardness: Rethinking Modernity, Conceptualizing Change." Forum in Amerikastudien/ American Studies 68.3, 2023, pp. 295-327.

with Evelyn Kreutzer, Anna‐Sophie Philippi, Maike Sarah Reinerth, Videography Blog: #epistemology, special issue of Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, ZfM Online, 12 June 2023, https://zfmedienwissenschaft.de/en/online/videography‐blog/.

American TV Series Revivals. Special issue of Television & New Media 19.4 (May 2018).

Ed. with Frank Krutnik. Exploring Film Seriality. Special issue of Film Studies. 17.1 (Autumn 2017).

Serial Narratives. Special issue of Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht. 47.1-2 (2014).

Ed. with Constantine Verevis. Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake/Remodel. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Ed. with Sonja Georgi. Of Body Snatchers and Cyberpunks: Student Essays on American Science Fiction Films. Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2011. Book Series: Göttinger Schriften zur Englischen Philologie.


Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

"On the Realist Aesthetics of Digital De-Aging in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema." Orbis Litterarum (2021): 1-12. 

"Remaking Winnetou, Reconfiguring German Fantasies of Indianer and the Wild West in the Post-Reunification Era." Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research 44.3 (2019): 323–341.

"'Whatever happened to predictability?': Fuller House, (Post)Feminism, and the Revival of Family-Friendly Viewing." American TV Series Revivals. Ed. Kathleen Loock. Special issue of Television & New Media (OnlineFirst, November 30, 2017). doi: 10.1177/1527476417742972. 

"American TV Series Revivals: Introduction." American TV Series Revivals. Ed. Kathleen Loock. Special issue of Television & New Media (OnlineFirst, November 30, 2017). doi: 10.1177/1527476417742971.

with Frank Krutnik. "Exploring Film Seriality: An Introduction." Exploring Film Seriality. Ed. Kathleen Loock and Frank Krutnik. Special issue of Film Studies 17.1 (Autumn 2017): 1-15. DOI: 10.7227/FS.17.0001.

"The Sequel Paradox: Repetition, Innovation, and Hollywood’s Hit Film Formula." Exploring Film Seriality. Ed. Kathleen Loock and Frank Krutnik. Special issue of Film Studies 17.1 (Autumn 2017): 92-110. DOI: 10.7227/FS.17.0006.

"Immigrants as New World Explorers and Conquistadores: Identity Fashioning and Political Purpose in Jewish American Immigrant Literature." Atlantic Studies 13.4 (2016): 512–534.

"Das Comeback der 80er: Zum Remake-Zyklus im aktuellen Hollywood-Kino." montage AV 23.1 (2014): 177-193.

"Introduction: Serial Narratives." Serial Narratives. Ed. Kathleen Loock. Special issue of LWU: Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 47.1­–2 (2014): 5–9.

"'The past is never really past': Serial Storytelling from Psycho to Bates Motel." Serial Narratives. Ed. Kathleen Loock. Special issue of LWU: Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 47.1–2 (2014): 81–95.


Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

Making Movie Generations: On the Cultural Work of Hollywood Remaking.” What Film Is Good For: The Ethics of Spectatorship. Ed. Julian Hanich and Martin P. Rossouw. Berkeley: U of California P, 2023. 249-260.

"Reboot, Requel, Legacyquel: Jurassic World and the Nostalgia Franchise." Film Reboots. Ed. Daniel Herbert and Constantine Verevis. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2020. 173–188.

"'Just when you thought it was safe': The Jaws Sequels." The Jaws Book: New Perspectives. Ed. Ian Hunter and Matthew Melia. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020.

"Remaking Funny Games: Michael Haneke’s Cross-Cultural Experiment." Transnational Film Remakes. Ed. Iain Robert Smith and Constantine Verevis. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2017. 177–194.

with Frank Kelleter. "Hollywood Remaking as Second-Order Serialization." Media of Serial Narrative. Ed. Frank Kelleter. Columbus, OH: Ohio State UP, 2017. 125–147.

"Sound Memories: 'Talker Remakes,' Paratexts, and the Cinematic Past." The Politics of Ephemeral Digital Media: Permanence and Obsolescence in Paratexts. Ed. Sara Pesce and Paolo Noto. New York: Routledge, 2016. 123–137.

"Retro-Remaking: The 1980s Film Cycle in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema." Cycles, Sequels, Spin-Offs, Remakes, and Reboots: Multiplicities in Film and Television. Ed. Amanda Ann Klein und R. Barton Palmer. Austin, TX: U of Texas P, 2016. 277–298.

"The Return of the Pod People: Remaking Cultural Anxieties in Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake/Remodel. Ed. Kathleen Loock and Constantine Verevis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 122-144.

with Constantine Verevis. "Remake | Remodel: Introduction." Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake/Remodel. Ed. Kathleen Loock and Constantine Verevis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 1–15.


Other Articles, Book Chapters, and Online Publications

mit Evelyn Kreutzer, Anna‐Sophie Philippi, Maike Sarah Reinerth, "Editorial." Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, ZfM Online, Videography, 12. Juni 2023

"Adaption und Serialität." Adaption. Vol. 7 of Grundthemen der Literatur­wissenschaft. Ed. Rainer Emig and Lucia Krämer. Berlin: De Gruyter (forth­coming, 2023).

"In Search of Academic Legitimacy: The Video Essay Between Disciplines, Online Film Culture, and Traditional Text-Based Scholarship." The Cine Files 15 (Fall 2020). 

"Fatherhood and Franchise Revivals: The Curious Case of Harrison Ford." Flow 26.8 (June 2020).

"Forever Young: Digital De-Aging, Memory, and Nostalgia." Flow 26.6 (April 2020).

"'The Most Wonderful Time of the Year': Christmas Classics Old and New." Flow 26.3 (November 2019).

"Retro/Repro: Zur Reproduktionslogik des Retro-Remaking in Blade Runner 2049." Rabbit Eye: Zeitschrift für Filmforschung 11 (2019): 44–60.

with Julia Leyda, Alexander Starre, Thiago Pinto Barbosa und Manuel Rivera. "The Dystopian Impulse of Contemporary Cli-Fi." IASS Working Paper. Potsdam: Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, 2016.

"Cinematic Remaking and Media-Generational Belonging." Field Guide Survey. MediaCommons: A Digital Scholarly Network. Web. 26 November 2016.

"Zwischen Jawsmania und Sequelitis: Die Fortsetzungen von Jaws." Der weiße Hai revisited: Steven Spielbergs Jaws und die Geburt eines amerikanischen Albtraums. Ed. Wieland Schwanebeck.Berlin: Bertz+Fischer, 2015. 231–244.

"'Dearer than diamonds': Zur Bedeutung der Esskultur in jüdisch-amerikanischer Einwan­derungsliteratur der Jahrhundertwende." Über den Tellerrand geschaut: Migration und Ernährung in historischer Perspektive. Ed. Mathias Beer. Essen: Klartext, 2014. 127–151.

with Álvaro Ceballos Viro. "La babélica traducción del gallo de Colón." Mixed Zone: Chronique de littérature internationale [nº hors série] 7 Nov. 2014: 10.

"Cold Hard Cash: Paper Money and National Identity." Margin 3 (Spring 2014): 12­–25.

"Laughing at the Greenhorn: Humor in Immigrant Autobiographies." American Lives. Ed. Alfred Hornung. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013. 207–223.

with Sonja Georgi. "Teaching American Science Fiction Film." Of Body Snatchers and Cyberpunks: Student Essays on American Science Fiction Film. Ed. Sonja Georgi and Kathleen Loock. Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2011. 13–37.

"Goodbye Columbus, Hello Abe!: Changing Imagery on U.S. Paper Money and the Negotiation of American National Identity." Almighty Dollar. Ed. Heinz Tschachler, Simone Puff and Eugen Banauch. Wien: LIT-Verlag, 2010. 81–101.


Encyclopedia Entries

"George Saunders: Tenth of December." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon online. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2017.

"Columbus Day." Italian Americans: A History and Culture of a People. Ed. Eric Martone. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2016. 161–164.

"David Shafer: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon online. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2016.

"Ben Lerner: 10:04." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon online. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2016.

"Ben Lerner: Leaving the Atocha Station." Kindlers Neues Literatur Lexikon (Online Supplement). Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2014.

"Jonathan Franzen: Freedom." Kindlers Neues Literatur Lexikon (Online Supplement). Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2013. 

"Dave Eggers: Zeitoun." Kindlers Neues Literatur Lexikon (Online Supplement). Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2011. 

"Dave Eggers: Where the Wild Things Are." Kindlers Neues Literatur Lexikon (Online Supplement). Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2011. 

"L. Sprague de Camp: Das Prosawerk."; "Dave Eggers: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius."; "William Lloyd Garrison: Das essayistische Werk."; "Oscar Hijuelos: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love."; "L. Ron Hubbard: Das Prosawerk."; "Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives."; "Rebecca Rush: Kelroy."; "Charles Webb: The Graduate."; "Robert Anton Wilson / Robert Shea: The Illuminatus! Trilogy." Kindlers Neues Literatur-Lexikon. 3rd ed. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009.

additional revised articles and biograms for Kindlers Neues Literatur-Lexikon. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009.


Reviews

Rev. of  Debarchana Baruah. 21st Century Retro: Mad Men and 1960s America in Film and Television. Amerikastudien/American Studies (forthcoming).

Rev. of David Roche. Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don’t They Do It Like They Used To? Film Studies 15 (Autumn 2016): 135-137.

Rev. of Timothy Corrigan and Patricia White. The Film Experience. Screening the Past 37 (2013) Web. 

Rev. of Yasmin Sabina Khan. Enlightening the World: The Creation of the Statue of LibertyAmerikastudien / American Studies 56.3 (2011): 475-77.

Rev. of Carolyn Jess-Cooke and Constantine Verevis, eds. Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Film SequelScreening the Past 30 (2011). Web.

Rev. of Gretchen A. Adams. The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century AmericaAmerikastudien / American Studies 55.3 (2010): 528-30.

Rev. of Udo J. Hebel, ed. Transnational American MemoriesAmerikastudien / American Studies 54.3 (2009): 532-34.


Videographic Work

"Memories of It." Tecmerin: Revista de Ensayos Audiovisuales

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with Julia Leyda: "Climate Fictions, Dystopias, and Human Futures." Film Studies for Free (June 2022). https://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com/.

"Reproductive Futurism and the Politics of the Sequel." [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies 6.3 (2019): http://mediacommons.org/intransition/reproductive-futurism-and-politics-sequel.

    • screened at the Besides the Screen Festival (Brazil) and the Festival Adelio Ferrero (Italy)
    • shortlisted for the Adelio Ferrero Award
    • "The best video essays of 2019" of Sight and Sound Journal.

"‘I missed you, Baby Sweet: A Multiscreen Experiment." Grensesnitt (November 2018).