Andreas Rauscher
Biography
Prof. Dr. Andreas Rauscher, Professor of Media Theory at the University of Kaiserslautern. Private lecturer for Film Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Lecturer at the Film Academy Ludwigsburg and Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.
Research focuses: Modern film history and film theory, Game Studies / Game Science, Transmediality, Genre Theory (particularly Science Fiction, Horror and the Fantastic), Pop Theory, Comic Research.
He has taught at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Kiel, Mainz, and Siegen. Freelance journalist, among others for epd Film and Testcard. Curator for the Frankfurt Film Museum (exhibition Film & Games, 2015).
Monographs on the phenomenon Star Trek (dissertation 2002), genre concepts in video games (habilitation Spielerische Fiktionen, 2011) and the Star Wars saga (in the series Reclam 100 Pages). Co-editor of books on John Carpenter (together with Pelle Felsch and Marcus Stiglegger), David Lynch (together with Marcel Hartwig and Peter Niedermüller), Czech-Slovak cinema of the 1960s (together with Jonas Engelmann and Josef Rauscher), the Simpsons (together with Michael Gruteser and Thomas Klein), as well as introductions to Game Studies (together with Benjamin Beil and Thomas Hensel) and comic analysis. Current publications: Game History and Game Canon (together with Dîlan Çakir), Brian De Palma - The Distrust of Images (together with Michael Flintrop).
Exhibition:
Film & Games - Ein Wechselspiel (Frankfurt Film Museum, July 2015 – January 2016)
Accompanying catalog to the exhibition in German and English, published by Bertz Verlag (Berlin: 2015, edited together with the DIF and Eva Lenhardt)