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Research interests

narrative and cognitive film theory | (videographic) film analysis

3D cinema | creative analysis (rethinking scholarship, audiovisual essay, mashup and supercut culture, narrative mapping) | narrative complexity (puzzle and riddle films)

Publications

Impossible Puzzle Films: A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema

Film Studies in Motion: From Audiovisual Essay to Academic Research Video

Puzzling Stories: The Aesthetic Appeal of Cognitive Challenge in Film, Television and Literature

Attention, memory, and narrative interpretation of Michel Gondry’s The Green Hornet: Comparing 2D and 3D film viewing using eye-tracking and self-report

Being Clear: Reflections and Takeaways from Evelyn Kreutzer and Alan O’Leary’s Discussion on ‘The Video Essay Podcast'

Christopher Nolan’s Tenet: A Hermeneutic Rollercoaster

Complex Film Narratives: Diegetic Fictionalization in Christopher Nolan’s Fantastical Puzzle Film Cycle

‘Predictable unpredictability’ – dynamic embodied patterns in Miklós Jancsó’s film style

Schrödinger’s Duck-Rabbit: Ambiguity and Meta-Framing across Media

What’s the Deal with the ‘Academic’ in Videographic Criticism?

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Press/media

Scholars at Work with Open Access Books – an interview with Miklós Kiss on Film Studies in Motion