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André F. Nebe uses his humour structure analysis to make viewers' preferences and corresponding audiovisual offerings in films visible. Complex and multi-layered audiovisual (hypotactic) humour is used in the more successful films, while less successful films make simple (paratactic) humour offerings. Humour structure analysis offers insights into promising humour offerings and can also be used in the story development phase for writers, directors, producers and dramaturges. The content Humour in science and practice Questioning children about humour Components of humour-categorised film analysis Correlations between children's humour preferences and humour offerings in the analysed films Correlations to budget, shooting days and number of visitors The target groups Lecturers and students of media studies and film schools Film producers and directors, scriptwriters, TV editors, licence buyers for film/TV, film funding institutions The author André F. Nebe studied law at the Humboldt University in Berlin, film directing at the University of Hamburg and earned his doctorate at the Babelsberg Film University. Among other things, he is the director of the feature film "Das grosse Rennen", author of various episodes of the ZDF series "Löwenzahn", was an editor for the SWR children's series "Motzgurke" and is the author of children's books in the series "Die Geisterreiter" and "Die Küstenwölfe". André F. Nebe is a lecturer at media and film schools. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com).

Communication. --- Information theory. --- Motion pictures—Production and direction. --- Film genres. --- Media and Communication Theory. --- Film and Television Production. --- Genre Studies. --- Genre films --- Genres, Film --- Motion picture genres --- Motion pictures --- Communication theory --- Communication --- Cybernetics --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Plots, themes, etc. --- Production and direction. --- Literature

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This collection explores how American science fiction television reflects, produces, and reconfigures the physical, imaginative, and cultural spaces we inhabit. It reads the proliferation of science fiction television and screen technologies as colliding heterotopias (impossible emplacements of space and time) that increasingly shape our world. With our growing awareness of population growth, the threat of ecocide, volatile geopolitics, and the rapid technological developments transforming media, we have become a “space conscious” age, with our lives increasingly mediated through the screen. Analyzing a plethora of science fiction television shows, the contributors explore science fiction’s engagement with the contested nature of inhabiting space; consider science fiction and screens as mirrors reflecting and refracting our world, its politics and conflicts; examine the nature of intersecting media and the importance of screens as science-fictional devices; and assess the transformative effects of science fiction spaces on communities and bodies. Joel Hawkes lecturers in English at the University of Victoria, Canada. His research examines the practices and performances that create the physical and literary spaces we inhabit. His work is increasingly interested in how (television) screens shape our world. Recent papers appear in Surveillance, Architecture and Control: Discourses on Spatial Culture, Critical Approaches to ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ and Screening American Nostalgia. Alexander Christie is Assistant Professor of Digital Prototyping at the Centre for Digital Humanities, Brock University, Canada. He has published internationally in a number of journals and collections, including Digital Humanities Quarterly, Social Knowledge Creation in the Humanities, and Reading Modernism with Machines. In addition to creating warped 3D maps of literary spaces (z-axis research), he is currently completing a book on modern manuscripts and humanities computing. Tom Nienhuis is an instructor in English at Camosun College in Victoria, Canada. His research examines religiosity and the supernatural in twentieth-century American literature. He is increasingly focused on science fiction storytelling, particularly cyber punk narratives.

Television broadcasting. --- Motion pictures, American. --- Film genres. --- Space. --- Culture. --- Television Studies. --- American Film and TV. --- Genre Studies. --- Space and Place in Culture. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Metaphysics --- Genre films --- Genres, Film --- Motion picture genres --- Motion pictures --- American motion pictures --- Moving-pictures, American --- Foreign films --- Telecasting --- Television --- Television industry --- Broadcasting --- Mass media --- Social aspects --- Plots, themes, etc. --- Science fiction television programs. --- United States --- History. --- Sci-fi television programs --- Television programs

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Gothic Cinema closes a gap in German-language film discourse: for the first time, the volume sheds light on a hitherto little-discussed film context. It considers Gothic Cinema as a form of unofficial historiography that allows a look not only at the history of film and its technique, but also at moral concepts, gender relations, collective fears or aesthetic currents. A delimitation and definition of the term and the central elements of the Gothic are followed by a comprehensive historical overview from 1896 to the present day. Three in-depth analyses of individual post-2015 gothic films and television series round out the review. On the one hand, the examples examined are representative in terms of typical elements, motifs or topoi, and on the other hand, they display peculiarities and breaks that prove fruitful for a cultural and media studies investigation. The author Dr. Katharina Rein is a research assistant at the University of Potsdam. She received her PhD in Cultural Studies from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2019. Her dissertation on the cultural and media history of stage magic in the late 19th century was awarded the Jubilee Prize for Young Scholars by Büchner Verlag. Her academic work has been published in four languages to date. This book is a translation of the original German edition “Gothic Cinema” by Rein, Katharina, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH in 2021. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

Horror films --- History and criticism. --- Film genres. --- Motion pictures. --- Motion pictures—History. --- Motion picture authorship. --- Genre Studies. --- Film Theory. --- Film and TV History. --- Screenwriting. --- Film authorship --- Film-making (Motion pictures) --- Film scriptwriting --- Filmmaking (Motion pictures) --- Motion picture plays --- Motion picture scriptwriting --- Motion picture writing --- Motion pictures --- Movie-making --- Moviemaking --- Moving-picture authorship --- Screen writing --- Screenplay writing --- Screenwriting --- Scriptwriting, Film --- Scriptwriting, Motion picture --- Authorship --- Screenwriters --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Genre films --- Genres, Film --- Motion picture genres --- Play-writing --- History and criticism --- Plots, themes, etc.