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Dr. des. Julian Hanich
E-mail: juhanich[at]yahoo.de
Julian Hanich has recently finished his dissertation on the pleasure of fear at the movies − title: "The Paradox of Fear. On the Pleasures of a Strong Cinematic Emotion." He has studied North American Studies and Film Studies in Berlin, Berkeley, Los Angeles and Amsterdam. Among his publications are essays on crying at the movies, the social experience of traffic in Los Angeles and discourses of modernity in Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s Tabu. For the last ten years Julian Hanich has also been a regular film critic for the Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel.