Volume 58 (2025), Edition 4

Feature films are more than just entertainment. They tell stories about humans as narrative and moral beings. This article shows how feature films portray moral conflicts, dilemmas, and questions of responsibility, and how these can be analyzed....

This article examines dominant interpretations in German feature films and discusses the extent to which the medium of film fulfills its role as a reference system for plurality and diversity. It is based on a discourse analysis of 40 commercially...

This article examines how age and gender structure participation, visibility, and power in the fields of directing, screenwriting, and production of films. It addresses which age groups are visible, who has continuous opportunities for...

The text is based on the observation that feature films and documentaries about the Hol­ocaust from the former fascist countries of Germany and Italy during the Cold War are particularly heterogeneous in terms of aesthetics, reception, and...

The fascination with film and television has remained unbroken for decades. The industry is a sought-after working environment, an economic powerhouse, and, last but not least, an emotional field of tension between various players. Away from the...

Children are interested in world affairs, but traditional news formats can quickly over­whelm them. Special services are designed to counteract this, but a comprehensive set of criteria for quality assessment has been lacking until now. To fill...

This article examines the representation of popes in the German news magazine „Der Spiegel“ between 1949 and 2025. It asks how the selection and representational conventions of papal imagery have changed over time and how these shifts relate to...

This article examines the pastoral Instagram activities of two Protestant pastors as exam­ples. It focuses on the question of how pastors communicate in the digital diaspora, what forms of pastoral identity formation emerge, and how analog and...