Discursive reality construction in German feature film

“吸我的眼睛”，“托尼·埃德曼”，“永远不要看别处”。“制作.德国故事片制作过程中行动的相互作用”项目得出结论认为，从电影资助制度来看，德国故事片意义的形成反映了一种政治层面，并表达了限制自主实践的权力关系。在这种背景下，似乎有必要研究德国故事片因此提供了哪些知识和解释。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，演员结构动态导致合法意义的斗争，这是由于特定的权力知识星座，可能会促进社会的政权理解世界。因此，本文借鉴话语理论，探究是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，该项目提出了一种理论和方法上的创新，以权力为导向的虚构娱乐检查，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，考虑到电影作为当今知识结构的重要组成部分，它解决了社会的可视化，并采取了进一步的步骤，分析视听媒体（生产）文化在德国，这扩大了德国传播研究的国际研究领域和邻近学科的连接。本研究对40部当代德国故事片进行了语篇分析，并进行了文献分析。研究过程和材料的选择由一个类别系统构成。

"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.