Journal for Religion, Film and Media
The Journal for Religion, Film and Media is a peer-reviewed, open access, online publication. It offers a platform for scholarly research in the broad field of religion and media, with a particular interest in audio-visual and interactive forms of communication. It engages with the challenges arising from the dynamic development of media technologies and their interaction with religion in an interdisciplinary key. It is published twice a year, in May and November.
JRFM is edited by a network of international experts in film, media and religion with professional experience in interdisciplinary research, teaching and publishing, linking perspectives from the study of religion and theology, film, media, visual and cultural studies, and sociology. It is published in cooperation between different institutions in Europe and the USA, particularly the University of Graz, the University of Munich and Villanova University, in cooperation with the Schüren publishing house in Marburg. JRFM is published also as a print-on-demand.
Journal for Religion, Film and Media
Chief editors
Stefanie Knauss, Villanova University
Alexander Darius Ornella, University of Hull
Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati, University of Munich
Christian Wessely, University of Graz
Heft 10.2 ab 15. November online!
Escaping the Moment. Time Travel as Negotiation of Transcendence
Issue Editors: Verena Marie Eberhardt and Anna-Katharina Höpflinger
Time travel is a widespread popular cultural motif that copes with the transcendent, as it goes beyond physical boundaries and exceeds what is empirically observable. As the contributions in this issue show, the time travel motif not only expresses the tension between a Now and an (imaginary) Then, but it also raises new questions about human transformation. The articles focus on different time travel motifs and their media representations, for example in science fiction and drama film, in Reality TV, and in children’s literature. They raise questions about the central normative categories of a particular time, about political discourses and cultures of remembrance, and also about the formation of identity processes. Through the articles’ different approaches, they do not only take us on a journey through time, but also into a multifaceted network of scholarly perspectives.
The issue can be downloaded at JRFM or can be ordered in print from Schüren.