National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) «Mediality: Historical Perspectives»

The NCCR Mediality is an interdisciplinary research cooperation located at UZH. The project focuses on the historicity of media.

Current Film Studies projects within the NCCR:

• Henriette Bornkamm, M.A., doctoral candidate
  «Ambivalent atmospheres». The Reception of Early Egyptian Films between Orient and Occident, 1920s–1940s (supervised by Prof. Margrit Tröhler)
• Stephanie Werder, M.A., doctoral candidate
  «Film as a Nervous Medium (1895–1918): The Changing Perception of a Conspicuous Feature»(supervised by Prof. Jörg Schweinitz)

The following projects at the Department of Film Studies were completed in section C.8: Dynamics of Cinematic Display, as part of the NCCR’s second phase from 2009 to 2013.

• Dr. des. Daniel Wiegand
  «Living Pictures»: Transitions from Standstill to Motion in Tableaux Vivants and Early Cinema (supervised by Prof. Jörg Schweinitz, completed in fall 2014)
• Dr. Guido Kirsten
  Theory and History of Cinematic Realism as a Mode of Ostentation (supervised by Prof. Margrit Tröhler, completed in fall 2012)
• Dr. des. Mattia Lento
  Discovering the Film Actor in Europe: Actoriality and Filmic Experience during the 1910s (supervised by Prof. Margrit Tröhler, completed in spring 2014)