Discursive reality construction in German feature film

“吸我的莎士比亚”，“托尼·厄德曼”，“永不移开视线”。“Making of…The interplay of actions in The feature films in Germany”项目认为，在电影资助制度下，德国故事片意义的形成反映了一种政治维度，表达了权力关系，限制了自主实践。在此背景下，考察德国故事片由此提供了哪些知识和解释似乎势在必行。这个后续的研究项目是基于这样的假设，即电影媒介可以影响我们的世界观，演员结构的动态导致了对合法意义的斗争，这是特定的权力-知识星座的结果，可能会促进社会对世界的理解。因此，本文借鉴话语理论，探讨哪些话语规则塑造了德国故事片的现实建构。通过将电影解释为话语实践，该项目建议对虚构娱乐进行理论和方法上的创新，以权力为导向的检查，这有助于媒体内容分析，并涉及传播者研究和媒体政策领域。此外，考虑到电影是当今知识结构的重要组成部分，它解决了社会的可视化问题，并进一步分析了德国视听媒体的（生产）文化，这扩大了德国传播研究与国际研究领域和邻近学科的联系。本质性研究项目对40部当代德国故事片进行了话语分析，并进行了文献分析。研究过程和材料的选择是按照一个分类系统来组织的。

"Suck me Shakespeer", "Toni Erdmann", "Never Look Away". The project “Making of … The interplay of actions in the production process of feature films in Germany” concludes that in light of the film funding system, German feature films' formation of meaning reflects a political dimension and expresses power relations, which limit autonomous practice. Against this background, it seems imperative to examine which knowledge and explanations German feature film consequently offers. This follow-up research project is based on the assumption that the film medium can influence our worldviews and that actor structure dynamics cause a struggle for legitimate meaning, which, as a result of specific power-knowledge constellations, are likely to foster society’s regime of understanding the world. Therefore, it draws on the discourse theory and asks which discursive rules shape the reality construction in German feature film. By interpreting films as discursive practice, the project suggests a theoretically and methodically innovative, power-oriented examination of fictional entertainment, which contributes to media content analysis and refers to the areas of communicator research and media policy. Moreover, considering films as an essential part of today’s knowledge structures, it addresses the visualization of society and undertakes a further step to analyze the (production) culture of audiovisual media in Germany, which enlarges German communication study’s connectivity to international research areas and neighboring disciplines. This qualitative research project carries on discourse analyses of 40 contemporary German feature films and additional document analyses. Research process and the selection of material are structured by a category system.