Markus Kuhn (media scientist)

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Markus Kuhn (born December 14, 1972 ) is a German media scientist.

Life

He studied German, media culture, art history and journalism at the Universities of Göttingen and Hamburg ( master's thesis on "Narrative situations in literature and film. The novel Berlin Alexanderplatz and its cinematic adaptations") and worked as a freelance journalist for various print and online media. From 2006 to 2008 he was a lecturer at the Institute for Media and Communication at the University of Hamburg . From 2008 to 2009 he was a research assistant ( postdoc ) and head of the doctoral group “The Textuality of Film” at the University of Bremen . From 2010 to 2015 he taught as a junior professor for media studies at the Institute for Media and Communication at the University of Hamburg with a focus on media analysis and media theory. From 2015 to 2017 he was Associate Professor in Media Studies at the Department for the Study of Culture at the Syddansk Universitet . Since 2017 he has been Professor of Media Studies at the Institute for Modern German Literature and Media at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel .

His main research interests are film narration, web series, film analysis, media narration, audiovision in digital media, narration on the Internet, transmedia storytelling, film genres and genre theory, biographical fiction, factuality / fictionality and comics and animated films.

Fonts (selection)

  • Film narratology. A narrative theoretical analysis model . Berlin 2013, ISBN 3-11-030727-8 .
  • as editor with Nicola Valeska Weber and Irina Scheidgen: Film studies genre analysis. An introduction . Berlin 2013, ISBN 3-11-029698-5 .
  • as editor with Franziska Bruckner, Erwin Feyersinger and Maike Sarah Reinerth: Set in motion .... Contributions to German-language animation research . Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 3-658-13017-2 .

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