We would like to highlight three new titles in our German book series, which will soon be available as hardcover or digitally. Like all books in the series, they can be downloaded free of charge via Open Access.

In his monograph, Spektakel filmischer Oberflächen. Eine medienästhetische Reflexion, Hannes Wesselkämper pursues a cultural-historical deconstruction of the spectacle. From a film theoretical perspective, the book takes a media-aesthetical approach to reposition the concept of the spectacle – particularly with regard to its often overlooked analytical potential. In three detailed analyses, Wesselkämper demonstrates how the spectacle in its specific visuality stages cinematic surfaces and thus aesthetically renegotiates the relationship between gaze and surface. The 15th volume of the Cinepoetics book series is now available as hardcover or digitally.

Films and videos shape our perception of current political crises. They raise or provoke objections. Jasper Stratil pursues this central thesis in his monograph Audiovisuelle Rhetorik als politische Intervention. Einspruchserfahrungen vom Kino bis YouTube. Using digital film analytical methods, Stratil looks at diverse forms of public communication as well as rhetorical theory and suggests a change of perspective in the analysis and critique of audiovisual rhetoric. The book will also be published as hardcover and digitally on September 2 this year.

In his book, Zeitformen der Liebe. Die Intimitäten filmischer und serieller Bewegungsbilder, Michael Ufer looks at representations of love in moving images, from a strictly poetological perspective. By analyzing cinematic intimacy, specific temporal structures become visible as a nexus of intimate love and its representations. Ufer's comprehensive study provides an insight into the contemporary intimacies of the moving image and explores the connection between love, its representation and the cinematic medium. Zeitformen der Liebe will be available as of December 31 at De Gruyter-Brill (and in bookstores).

With these new additions, the Cinepoetics book series now comprises seventeen volumes, published as hardcover and digitally. They are complemented by eleven volumes of our book series Cinepoetics - English edition and three Cinepoetics essays. More books will follow in 2025, even after the official term of the research group.